Sunday, March 1, 2009

Need to Lose Fat Gain Muscle?

By Allen Brian

There is no doubt that if you gain muscle to your body too fast, you will also get some fat. You have to accept this truth if you want to gain weight and muscle mass. This is a natural phenomenon of muscle building. If you want to get larger muscles, you will have to eat more calories to allow your body to build larger muscles. But it is impossible for all of your additional calories to go for growing your muscle. Fat will be generated because of the rest calories.

It is a good idea to make your total effort to grow muscle in one specific time frame and also do your best to slash your extra fat in another specific time frame, if you want to have a good look shape quickly.

Your metabolic rate is controlled by the level of your muscles, it would be easier for your to rid of fat if you have already build your muscle mass. This is why beginning with a bulking phase is almost always the most efficient route.

In terms of the information, your next step should be: build as much muscle size as possible while minimizing body fat gains. During this first phase, your goal is not to get rid of fat- only to avoid gaining too much of it.

We can accomplish this with the following 3 ways.

Count the exact additional calories you need.

Optimal nutrition is a standard, but there is no standard for "super nutrition". Extra calories are key elements that can grow your muscle bigger, but if you eat too much unnecessary foods that over the needs for making your muscle bigger will lead you to get more fat than you should.

Calculate the calories that you need for maintaining your weight and add 15 to 20% of additional calories to it. That is a good extra calories for your muscle growth. If your extra calories intake falls in this range, then you don't need to make any change.

Watch your nutritional choices.

Healthy, unsaturated fats, carbohydrate with high fibers and lean proteins should be your main food sources. Don't eat every food item in sight, make sure that you're sticking to lean protein sources, keeping blood sugar levels stable through proper carbohydrate choices, and avoiding high amounts of saturated fats.

Include cardio workout

Cardio workout is less important for build bulk muscle, but it will help you gain less fat. You don't need to go overboard, it is just an additional workout. Just keep cardio workout high strength and short. Don't perform long workouts, 10 to 20 minutes workout are good and can prevent muscle loss.

Once you've built an amount of muscle size that you're satisfied with (and this is totally up to the individual), you can then move into a fat loss cycle and concentrate on dropping off body fat while retaining muscle size. Fat and muscles go along together. You can't avoid that. The best course of action is just to keep the fat gain at a minimum instead of attempting to avoid it altogether. - 16004

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