Weight Loss & Muscle Gain

There’s a lot of controversy about weight loss and muscle gain. Some people still think it’s not possible, despite all the new scientific findings. What do they base their opinions on? Old scientific findings!

Now, I am by no means a scientist, and for all I can tell, the people in the white lab coats are constantly changing their opinion, so following their advice might not always be the best choice. Instead, I also focus on people who have successfully achieved the results that I want to get in real life. And in the context of weight loss and muscle gain that means: men who’d lost weight and build up their musculature at the same time.

Here are a couple of the things that I discovered, and I believe will be very helpful and valuable for you in your quest to lose weight and gain muscle:

Many people, including doctors, so called “fitness gurus” and medical experts, still recommend cardio as the best method to lose fat. I really believe that’s irresponsible . If you are an expert on the subject, then you have a responsibility to keep up to date with the new findings, and not rely on the on what you have learned years ago. New studies have shown that cardio is probably the worst method to set. If you want to lose weight as a man, then you should not do cardio exercise. Instead, you should focus on a specific kind of what is called intensive interval training.

There was a study in which researchers from the Laval University in Québec compared how well aerobic cardio training helps to burn fat compared to interval training. Nobody expected what they found out. The interval training group burn more fat faster than the cardio training group.

Now when it comes to building muscle, the same is true. Instead of long and boring cardio, short interval training is a lot more effective. In fact, heavy resistance training is what works best. Many bodybuilding magazines will tell you that you have to spend hours daily in the gym to build a real muscles. Unfortunately, that’s also not true. I found that most muscle building magazines are really basically entertaining catalogs for protein powders and other supplements for bodybuilders. They make their money from the advertisements. And that’s what they care most about. Making money, not serving their readers.

You don’t really need to be a scientist to figure these things out. When you’re watching sports next time, just look at the sprinters and how their body looks. And then look at the long distance runners and compare their bodies to the sprinters. I’m sure you’ll notice something interesting. The long distance runners seem almost skinny compared to the muscular sprinters. If what you off to when you loose weight is muscle again, then short and intense training is much more effective than long and mental cardio training.

Notice that I’m not recommending long bodybuilding strength training workouts. First of all, those take a lot of time. And second of all, they are not as effective when it comes to building muscle as short and intense interval training.

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