Category: Fat Loss
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Muscle vs Fat
The shape of your body is largely determined by your muscle mass, however that is assuming that you don’t have an excess of body fat distorting you true shape. The point of working out with weights is to manipulate your muscle mass to augment your look. Having fat covering all of those muscles makes your…
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Is Liposuction “Cheating”?
I heard a story the other day about a bodybuilder who allegedly (I cannot confirm this) gets a bit of liposuction done before a bodybuilding show just to make sure he’s as ripped as possible. The other bodybuilders consider this ‘cheating’ because it’s ‘not fair’. Now I don’t know if this is just a story…
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Bodyweight changes = body water changes
Weight loss and fat loss are almost always assumed to be the same thing. Bodybuilders assume muscle gaining will translate in to weight gaining. And we all assume that weight gain in general means fat gain. To be clear your body is mostly water (see picture above), and most of your day to day fluctuations…
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Body Weight Maintenance
Got back from vegas and stepped on the scale this morning…and I weigh exactly the same as the day I left. I had at least 1 buffet per day (one day I actually went to a brunch buffet and then a dinner buffet) It was AWESOME! I can’t resist the food selection, it’s just so…
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Food Variety – A Catch 22
The buffet’s are treating me well here in vegas even though I’m downright abusing them. (it’s not a fair trade at all) Eating at buffets has reminded me of the inherent contradiction to the healthy eating mantra of eating a ‘variety’ of foods. It’s pretty common to hear health/fitness marketers advise eating a diet with…