Losing Muscle
I
lift weights and stuff so i dont want to lose my muscle while running
and stuff. How i can i lose fat, but keep my muscle/ gain more muscle at
same time?
Answer:
By Nic Masters
These are my top three tips on how to lose fat without losing muscle. We
all want the extra weight, but we want it in muscle and not in fat. So
how do we achieve that? Well, read on and follow these three simple tips
and your results will speak for themselves!
Build muscle to burn fat.
It might sound a little counter-intuitive at first, but the best way to
burn fat is by building muscle. The more muscle you have on you, the
more calories your body needs to sustain that muscle. Therefore, by
building muscle you naturally burn fat.
Muscle requires a lot of calories to be sustained, so by developing
muscles you urge your body to burn calories naturally. One pound of
muscle requires about 50 calories just to keep alive, so by putting on
20 pounds of muscle you require 1,000 calories just to keep it on.
Therefore, with all this muscle you can be watching TV and burning fat!
Awesome, isn’t it?
There is more to cardiovascular exercises than meets the eye.
For ages people have been told that they need to do cardio in order to
lose fat. This misinformation has been uncovered just recently. In fact,
this tip is quite counter-intuitive, but you need to follow it, even if
you have to be taking a leap of faith to do so.
The thing is that cardiovascular exercises burn calories and fat, but
they also urge the body to store more fat for the next exercise session.
Therefore, if you go for a long jog, or go on the treadmill, you will
burn a good amount of calories at the end, but after the workout the
body will have it as a priority to restore that fat for next time. In
effect, you are not losing fat, you are simply burning calories, which
is not what we are after, right?
Forget about prolonged monotonous exercises.
The key to fat loss is to challenge the body, so that it is urged to
develop muscle, and burn fat. To do that, instead of prolonged
monotonous exercises engage in short high intensity resistance training
sessions. These short sessions will give your body just the challenge it
needs.
High intensity resistance training sessions are the way to go in losing
fat because they increase your RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate) for up to 48
hours. Your body is thus stimulated to burn more calories even when you
are not exercising. The same effect could not be achieved with
monotonous exercises, such as jogging, which the body gets used to and
which do not challenge it. So, there is only one way to go to ensure
fast body loss and that is high intensity resistance training.
I have given you my best three tips on how to lose fat without losing
muscle. Again, these are: gain muscle to burn fat, stay away from
cardiovascular exercises, and go for high intensity resistance training.
These tips are counter-intuitive at first, but they have been proven to
work. I initially found them in “The Fat Burning Furnace” book, and did
not believe them, but after trying them for myself, I was amazed at the
results. They definitely worked, so I recommend them to you, too!
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