1. is it true that lifting/weight training will literally turn fat into muscle? meaning your body with naturally burn fat to create more muscle?
No, but increasing the amount of muscle mass you carry will mean that the amount of calories it takes to sustain that mass will increase. If your maintanence calories are 2,000/day before lifting, and you've been regularly training for a year or so, the extra muscle has likely bumped your maintanence up a few hundred calories. However, you continue eating at 2,000 you will lose weight as it's eating under your new maintanence.
2. as of right now i workout two days then rest one then two days again (back/shoulders/chest on mon - arms/abs/core on tue - rest on wed then repeat thurs and fri) I want to change this around to include a leg day but which areas do i pair up with each other? Ive heard larger muscle groups should be done by themselves. So a 'back' day then a 'leg' day then a day for everything else? Also im already doing cardio everyday.
- Back/Bi
- Chest/Tri
- Shoulders/Abs
- Legs/Core