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Muscles burn calories or sugar. When you workout the energy you ingested by means of meals are burnt to fuel the muscular movements part of the workout. When you continue to workout regularly, when you need extra energy to feed your muscles, your body transforms a part of the fat deposited under your skin in various parts of your body into sugar and uses it to power itself.

So a good workout burns both sugar and fat.

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