Move weight to lose weight?

Too much turkey, back to work.

First off, this is not a post about big ol’ strongman type lifters that eat 90lb dumbbells for breakfast.

We are talking about general strength training and conditioning thru strength training type workouts.

Without getting too confusing, let’s talk about weight loss and general overall body toning for a minute.  Side note, you must first lose the fat before you can ‘tone’.

Muscle in your body composition drives your body’s metabolic rate.  In other words, your muscles control your metabolism.  Well, it’s a big part of the equation at least…

So, if person A is 6-0 and 200lbs but 24% body fat and person B is 6-0 and 200lbs, but 14% body fat….person B will burn more calories in a rested state.  Numbers are for EXAMPLE purposes only.

Now, if a pound of body weight is 3,500 calories (which is still debated) and we are trying to lose 20lbs, how many extra calories to we need to burn?  Very good!

To lose 20lbs, we need to ’spend’ 70,000 extra calories. So, if the average person is ‘told’ to consume around 2,000 calories per day…well, I guess you could go without food for 35 days, and just sleep.  Then, you would probably die and it wouldn’t matter.

If we do a few machines at the gym, and average about 15 calories a minute or 900 per hour…which is killlin it,  we could spend 2 hours everyday there for 1,800 calories.

If we eat good and stay under our threshold of 2,000 calories and do 2 hours of INTENSE cardio EVERY day…we can lose 20lbs in about 38 days.

Now, we all know that is not realistic.

For starters, nobody ready this is going to do 120 minutes on a machine and average 15 calories per minute.

Second, you will fatigue from lack of food and over-training.  Lack of food means muscle depletion.  Muscle depletion will lead to a lower metabolic body rate.  That will lead to FASTER weight gain once you go over your threshold of daily calories.

Completely confused by now?  Or are you just getting pissed off at me?  It’s no wonder why so many people consume pills or think some girdle is a miracle fix.  This shit is complicated and tough!

The work is tough, it is hard work.  The concept is simple;  Eat better on a regular basis, and get stronger to create a more efficient body.

So, what are we doing about it?  Simple.  We are simply trying to jack up your body’s metabolic rate so that it can burn fat over long term without falling back into the realm of fatness once you stop ‘dieting’.  But, HOW, Mike?  Well, GET STRONG.  We add muscle, lean muscle mass.

Hands, legs, and stomach.  Then we start making better decisions about what you are sticking in your mouth.

If we can focus on adding muscle first, then train into an intensity that will turn it into metabolic training, we are doing our job.  YES….you need to add muscle to burn fat.  Its all the same, for males, females, and all in between.

But Mike, I don’t want to get BULKY? Oh geeze, where we go again.  Look!  If you are trying to lose 20lbs or more, YOU ALREADY ARE BULKY…it’s just not in muscle form….its FAT.

You will not get bulky.  I will not get into this again.

Mike, how come we don’t do sit ups to work on my gut? A fat person doing crunches is like buying a Ferrari putting a car cover on it and never letting anyone see it.  It is a stupid idea.  You need to take the car cover off  (car cover = fat stomach) but first you need to have the Ferrari, which is a flat stomach.

But, Mike, can we focus on my stomach?  I need to lose my gut.

Of course we can, it is called EAT BETTER, retard.

It aint easy.  It took me over 3 years to realize that eating better had a major role in the fact that I was just a CHUBBY dude with decent sized arms.  I was active and a very regular at the gym….still, too ashamed to take my shirt off in front of anyone.

In May, I discovered the TRUTH….my workouts became less and I started to eat MORE…just healthier.

Guess what?  Ever since then, I have had a 6 pack.

Yes, I got abs and it was done with no sit ups.

You are not special because you bust your ass once or twice a week thru training.  The really special ones, the people who see long term results…those are the ones that make good decisions when nobody else is around.

Think about it…

Are you a warrior, or an excuse making liar?  Lie to me all you want, I don’t care.  Lie to yourself?  Ha!  You’re probably gullible enough to believe it.  But, your stomach, you CANNOT lie to your belly.

You like your belly against the steering wheel?  Or poking out further than the rest of your body? Titty-do, or dicky-do? Look that one up..

How about trying to squeeze into some jeans that once were easy to get into.  Can you count rolls when you put on a tight shirt?

I am not here to lie to you, it is HARD FUCKIN WORK…but well worth the end result.

Excuses are for fat, pathetic, lazy, liars.

You are a warrior.

Get strong.

Have a good day.

-Mike.

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