 Free stock photo from Pexels.com. If you’re totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don’t instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics––your weight loss will be sudden and violent, but also fleeting. How likely is it that you’ll lose muscle during a fat loss diet?
According to some people in the more fear-mongering corners of the internet, it’s pretty much inevitable. In fact, as soon as your workout performance drops by a couple of reps… Gasp! You’re losing muscle. For this reason, some will even say you shouldn’t go into a deficit at all if you hope to gain muscle, even when you carry excess body fat. I disagree with these extreme positions. So let’s delve into what the research seems to show and my six practical tips to give yourself the greatest chances of minimising muscle loss and maximising growth.
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 [Weight loss] changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body. We all have certain body parts that never seem to get quite as lean as the rest, no matter how hard we diet: our so-called “stubborn fat areas”.
Why does this happen? How can you get rid of this stubborn fat? Is it even possible? In order to get to the bottom of your stubborn fat problem, first you need to understand what determines where you store fat, or adipose tissue, and how fast you can lose it.  Free stock photo from Pexels.com. If you opened my old personal training textbook, you’d find the following recommendations:
These are pretty common to this day. You might also be familiar with the claim that shorter rest intervals of around 30 seconds are better for hypertrophy (muscle growth) because they result in a greater increase in growth hormone, testosterone, and IGF-1––all of which theoretically make a positive contribution to hypertrophy––than longer rest intervals. How accurate is any of this? Read on to find out!  Free stock photo from Pexels.com. We all know this one: try to get in at least 10,000 steps per day.
However, such black-or-white, one-size-fits-all solutions are sometimes outdated or unfounded or lack the necessary nuance to be correct or helpful, which is why I’m not usually a fan of them. But is this one bad? Or is there something to it?  We have to know how to eat right, train right, and take the right over-the-counter supplements. “BCAAs” stands for “branched-chain amino acids”, which are three of the nine essential amino acids your body needs in order to trigger muscle protein synthesis (MPS), or the creation of new muscle: leucine, isoleucine, and valine.
BCAAs are a very popular supplement, but are they worth your money? There are two main claims regarding BCAAs: 1. BCAAs improve body composition and training performance. 2. BCAAs enhance recovery by reducing delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS). … But do they? |
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