dimanche 30 juin 2013

The Problem With Quick Weight Loss Plans

By Russ Howe


One of the biggest problems in the fitness industry is the number of people who can't lose weight on a low calorie diet regardless of what they do in the gym. If you fall into this category, you are certainly not by yourself.

The immediate course of action is to look at what you are doing right now and eliminate the things which are not working.

Most people who reach this point have two very big issues in common:

1. They don't eat enough calories.

2. They spend their time doing endless hours of cardiovascular activity.

Fat loss isn't as simple as starving your body and hammering the cardiovascular exercise. If you are currently eating barely any food and working out for hours every single night then you need to change your approach as quickly as possible.

If you have ever tried restricting calories and cutting out your most enjoyable foods for a week you will already know the problems this approach yields - yet it remains a commonly made dieting mistake. By restricting your favorite snacks your diet becomes the enemy, which is never good for long-term progress, and by restricting calories you run the very real danger of pushing your body straight into starvation mode, which is renowned for elevated fat storage.

In an attempt to curb your insanely low calorie diet from starving it to death, the body begins to adapt to this low food intake by storing as much as it can and holding on to what it has got. This is why you'll often see girls who spend hours in the gym and live on salads, yet seemingly cannot lose any fat.

On top of this issue, it's usually commonly associated with long steady state aerobic activity - which has been well documented for lean muscle breakdown. This puts you in a lose/lose situation, hanging on to excess body fat while losing lean muscle tissue!

Instead of falling victim to the same old mistakes, you can do two things. Firstly, structure your calorific intake to be roughly your goal body weight (in pounds) multiplied by twelve. This ensures enough quality calories per day are entering your system and, believe it or not, you will find it far easier to lose fat despite eating more food than you may right now.

It would also be worth taking a week to familiarize yourself with high intensity interval training, or HIIT for short, which has been scientifically accepted as a superior method for blasting adipose tissue. It also provides you with shorter, more enjoyable workout sessions.

As with most things in life, more does not necessarily mean better. By simply increasing the intensity of your workouts you will notice far superior progress, despite spending less time in the gym than you do right now. If you can't lose weight on a low calorie diet, the first thing to do is realize the difference between low calories and starvation, a fine line which many people unknowingly cross.




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