Healthy strong muscles burn calories and give you the freedom to participate in all sorts of activities that can help you burn excess calories and improve your overall fitness and wellbeing. Massage is thought to be able to burst the fat capsule in subcutaneous tissue so that the fat exudes and becomes absorbed. In this way, combined with proper nutrition and exercise, massage may actually help in weight loss. Regular massage is just as important as regular workouts and correct nutrition in any comprehensive fitness and weight loss program, which is great news for those of us who thought that exercising and loosing weight was all hard work!