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Christopher Stigson
Are you overweight and want to burn fat and get rid of your ugly pot belly? That is a very common thought that millions of people have when they go to bed at night. Being a helping person I'd love to share some of my experience with fitness and weight loss to help you reduce inches of your waist in a quick manner. First of all, we have all heard about the famous "calories in vs calories out" argument, and it's 100% true, yet it's also not true. Any calories in and any kind of training to create a deficit will not always help you lose the kind of weight you want to lose, which is obviously FAT. The goal with "weight loss" is really "fat loss". That's literally the big problem with most programs out there today, they focus too much on the weight loss part of the equation and not about lean body mass and maintaining or even building muscle while losing fat. Wouldn't it suck if you lost weight, but all the weight you lost was muscle and water? Yepp. On the other hand, what if you built 3 lbs of muscle and lost 2 lbs of fat in 2 weeks. You would have gained 1 lb of body weight... An accurate assuption would be to "stop that program" since I didn't lose weight, but hang on a second. Muscle is denser than fat so you should still "look smaller", so instead of using the scale as your measurment, use the mirror and also look at your body fat percentages as well as overall energy levels. When you train with weights you release growth hormone, testosterone and many other hormones that help you burn more fat and increases your metabolism to boost your basal metabolic rate which means you are burning fat 24/7. How would you like to be in a situation where that happened instead of just burning 500 calories per hour on the treadmill, lose muscle and sometimes get weaker? No! Train right, with weights and eat healthy and over a period of time you'll see major changes in your physique. Of course there are specific programs you can follow to help boost your metabolism more, foods that help fat burn, and sleeping patterns that help build muscle... Therefore it would be a wise idea to seek out a popular fat burning program that requires the least amount of time to get the best results and it doesn't require hours on a treadmill per week. I've gained tons of muscle while burning off fat strictly from training with resistance, no cardio.
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