http://www.thebasementgym.com - Many factors affect the outcome of burning fat and keeping muscle. This article lists 5 things you can do to successfully burn fat and keep muscle.
1. Proper Nutrition
You must feed your body properly. Keeping the muscle that you worked so hard to build is impossible without the proper nutrition.
In order to maintain your lean muscle tissue, your body needs lots of healthy calories. Lean muscle tissue is turned to sugar to be used for fuel if you restrict your calories too much.
2. Don't Reduce Your Calorie Intake By Too Much
You must not reduce your calorie intake too much in your quest to lose weight. Shoot for eating 5-7 small meals per day. All of the macro nutrients should be included in each of the 5-7 small meals per day.
Every day you should spread out all of the macro nutrients throughout the day in percentages of; 35% protein, 45% carbohydrates and 20% fat.
3. Don't Eat Too Much Per Meal
The advantage of eating many small meals per day is that nothing is consumed in excess. The average American eats three large meals per day. It is very likely that you consume more calories than your body needs by following this plan.
Remember: Small meals prevent overeating and provides your body with a steady flow of micro nutrients to use as necessary.
4. Keep Cardio Sessions Short and Intense
Your cardio sessions should be short in duration and intense in order to burn calories and maintain muscle mass.
Most people who indulge in cardio perform it for too long a time period and at too slow a pace.
To realize the maximum benefits from cardio workouts you need to work short but very hard.
[blue box]Exercise Tip 1: Add your short intense cardio workout at the end of your strength training workout. 10-20 minutes is an optimal length of time for you to perform cardio. This type of workout is perfect for burning fat and keeping muscle.
Exercise Tip 2: Your intensity is not high enough if you are able to workout for longer than 25 minutes. If 25 minutes seems to be too easy, then you will need to increase your intensity during your workout.[/blue box]
5. Add Weight Training and Cardio To Your Fat Burning Regimen
Both weight training and cardio exercise need to be included in your plan if you want to burn fat and keep muscle.
You must perform weight training on a regular basis, 2-3 times per week is all that it takes. The goal of weight training is to put stress on your muscles so that they can grow stronger and larger. This is the goal!
Your muscles rebuild stronger with increasing amounts of stress placed up them.
Burn Fat and Keep Muscle Conclusion
Success at burning fat and keeping muscle requires you to follow this plan as closely as possible.
- Follow a proper nutrition plan by eating 5-6 small meals per day.
- Don't reduce your caloric intake drastically. Starvation diets have a negative effect on weight loss.
- Don't overeat at your meals. You body stores excess calories as fat.
- Add short but intense cardio to your workouts.
- Add strength training to your workouts.
You are short-changing yourself if you only follow one or two of them.
You nutritional plan and your workouts require 100% effort of your concentration and effort at all times. You must stay focused in order to burn fat and keep muscle.
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Venuto really nailed it, didn't he. BTW, I didn't count 5 tips. Maybe 3.
snorkelman2010 10 months ago