When you lose weight, you lose fat. Everytime I gain muscle, I lose weight. When adding muscle it is about inches, not pounds. When building a six pack, it is about losing fat, and thus weight.
Not sure about that. Sometimes it's water weight, some time you lose muscle mass. It really just depends.
Dude seriously, if you couldn't do it when you were younger, you won't be able to now. It's too much work, you cant eat anything crappy. Whoever said 95% of it was in the kitchen is correct. Do you plan on cooking your own meals? If so you may have a shot, but overall it is difficult you have to break your meals into five, and that alone is difficult, because who the hell eats five times a day, let alone small amounts. Even then you have to get sufficient rest, and you have to do all kinds of workouts not just abs, or else you will seriously look deformed. I have some before and after pictures, I started about 4 months ago and I have improved but what is holding me back is the dieting. Because I am getting the results everywhere but my abs and sides (lovehandles) are still somewhat there.
No i didn't. Your point was that timing of the eating is bad. I said the timing is not the trick. The reason the 4 hour strategy works is because you cut out 4 hours of eating and thus calories. It has nothing to do with eat before sleeping. If you ate the same amount of calorie with and without the 4 hour thing, it would provide little advantage. By digest i mean laying in bed with a huge bloated stomach from pounding a ton of carbs then it just sitting there.
<br> Muscle does weigh more than fat, but I'd like to think that the ratio of how much muscle you have to the amount of fat equates for the discrepancy of weight. If you work out, the weight you lose because of all the fat that is gone ends up being more than the weight of the muscle you have built. I don't know why it works like that, or even if that's how it happens with all people. I'm just using myself as an example...
Since you are a dude you should lift weights. It will provdie huge benefits. Eat clean, work out hard, and I doubt you would ever need cardio. You know which foods are good vs bad right? Everyone does. This is not as complicated as you make it.
If you stop working out, you'll lose muscle which will cause your metabolism to decrease which will cause your fat to increase.
Never need cardio? lol. If you really want workout/nutritional advice, I'd find somewhere more reputable than everybody who thinks they are an "expert" on this BBS. There are so many contradictory opinions in these fitness threads it'll make your head spin.
Look man, you want a six pack? Just do this: 1. Eat right 2. Run 3. a) Lift heavier weights with less reps (if you're a skinny stick) b) Lift lighter weights with more reps (if you have a lot of fat, or overweight) 4. Follow any decent AB workout that involves crunches as well as core work. You should be doing 100+ reps of each exercise in the routine per workout. Only do this workout 3-4 times a week. Skip a day in between!!! 5. Do not drink soda!! 6. Give it a few weeks <br> After this, you should have a six pack!
It's funny that there's this misconception about cardio. You'll burn a lot more calories lifting heavy weights, which will in turn get you to that six pack a lot faster.
I've got a general weight/fat loss question. I've noticed recently that I've got more fat in the belly/chest area. I haven't necessarily been dieting per se, but just cutting back on the junk food that I typically eat. I notice that people typically say "cut carbs" -- but I've been eating a lot of whole wheat bread as I've cut back on caloric intake. For example, breakfast this morning, I had non-fat plain yogurt mixed with frozen blueberries and two pieces of whole wheat toast. For lunch sandwich with whole wheat bread, egg, and two strips of turkey bacon or maybe a bowl of plain cheerios. I've thrown in some turkey chili from time to time. At night I'll just cook a few pieces of chicken tenderloin and put some tobasco and pepper on it. I haven't been doing strict calorie counting, but I'd estimate that I consume about 1500 calories per day. I'd say, on average, I'll have four pieces of whole wheat bread...Is that a big detriment to the loss of fat in the belly/chest area?
<br> I meant 100+ reps combined with all exercises. Crunches, bicycles, leg extensions, torso twists, and the such should all total up to about 200 reps. Try and do about 25 of each individual exercise to get your total to that number.
Why do you think you NEED cardio? All cardio does is burn calories. Burn calories lifting weights. Then the muslce you create burns more calories. Then you also eat less. Calorie deficit, muscle built, fat loss.
I never do cardio. Any time you want a fitness challenge of some cardio jogging or whatever let me know. You can have great fitness with weight training.
I just started today with an emphasis on lower body lifting. Since I would never ever do lower body weights (sorry, I'm one of those jerks) I'm hoping that I'll be able to add some more muscle there and increase my overall fat loss since I'm kind of raw there. I have read the abs diet which seems to be echoing alot of what you guys said regarding eating habits, so I think I'm okay there, although I detest green vegetables outside of broccoli. I don't drink soda, do drink protein shakes, and definitely don't eat fast food anymore. I only drink once a month on average. Since a month ago I've really been having difficulty forcing myself to eat even 3 meals a day, much less five. It's great for fat loss and overall weight loss but I definitely worry about losing muscle mass with the fat loss. I'm keeping measurements of various muscles and regions to make sure. For the time being I think I'm just going to keep eating light and continue dropping pounds and hope I don't lose whatever muscles I have now.
