Every other day intermittent fasting is an extreme calorie cycling strategy where you lower calories every other day. It can help you lose a lot of fat, however can also cause muscle loss if you aren’t careful.
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⛏Dieting is less likely to cause muscle loss if you have extra fat to...
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Intermittent Fasting and Fat Loss
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Cardio for Fat Loss
Why is it that cardio is always the hot topic of fitness discussion and seems to be the fix all solution to burning fat?As we have all learned and I have written about in the past that cardio is not the fix all solution when it comes to body compositional changes anymore. New times have ...
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Fat loss - Keep it Simple.
Going extra hard in the gym and just eating "whatever" isn't really a great idea if you want to make tangible progress in improving body composition. 😬
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While exercise is an important part of the energy balance equation, remember that it’s only a tool. Although it may add several hundred... -
Do you really know what you are eating?????
Do you know what you’re eating?
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Macronutrients (Macros for short) are the nutrients that your body uses for fuel. The three main macros are protein, fats and carbs.
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To lose fat you need to be in a calorie deficit and to optimally build muscle you need to be in a calorie surplus.... -
How Many Calories in a Pound?
Weight*management always comes down to how many calories you eat versus how many you burn. Fad diets all promise removing every carbohydrate you avoid and replacing it with a grapefruit means you just torch fat away. It's simply not right. For a long time, we assumed 3... -
Your hormones as you get shredded.
People often associate a shredded physique (low body fat) with strength and athleticism. While you may look like ‘you don't even lift’ with your shirt on, being shredded exudes power and physical prowess when you're bare-chested.
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Eat Big to Get Big, Not FAT
Most men like to eat, and eat a lot. So it's easy to go too far with a calorie surplus when the focus is on muscle gains. But there's a difference between eating enough to fuel workouts, recovery, and hypertrophy, and eating so much that you just look like a fat guy with decent traps. Big arms don't... -
Calorie Deficit and Intermittent Fasting
themusclephd 💥You will likely need to be in a calorie deficit to lose a large amount of fat. This study was for 30 days and found that bodybuilders whom ate at maintenance didn’t lose any fat, however very long term animal studies have found a great difference in body composition when done o... -
Macros are NOT Interchangable.
NO, MACROS ARE NOT INTERCHANGABLE! A CALORIE IS NOT A CALORIE IN A DYNAMIC SYSTEM. This is a very short-sighted outlook that seemed to have come in tandem with the "just hit your macros" wave. We have individuals that are extremely loose with their macros, and their only goal is to hit X caloric i... -
Just Keep it Simple
So, that pizza everyone was eating was just too good to pass up, and instead of having only 2 slices like you’d planned, you couldn’t resist adding an extra 3 more on top of it. You’ve now gone 1000 calories over your target for the day, and it feels as though all that fat loss progress you’ve been... -
9 Tips to Break Through the Weight Loss Plateau
9 Tips to Break Through the Weight Loss Plateau
Has it happened to you? You begin to train hard and you’re watching your diet like a hawk. You start seeing some incredible improvements and then about 4 – 6 weeks into the program it seems like your training pr... -
Is A Calorie Just A Calorie?
Before finally getting into a discussion of the different dietary approaches out there, I want to adress one of the bigger points of contention in the dieting literature: is a calorie a calorie? Simply put, the debate comes down to this: all that matters is caloric balance (calories in versus calories... -
The Great Calorie Conundrum
The Great Calorie Conundrum
by Geoff Roberts
Misconceptions are rampant in our society. With all of the different sources of “information” available today, it is far easier to stumble across bad information than it is good information. Misconceptions of the past... -
Is a Calorie a Caloire?
by Mike Howard
Calories have become a perfect target for diet book authors and gurus alike to play on the emotions of those who struggle with weight. In the typical diet book and health blog world, calorie (and any mention of counting them) is met with an illogical amount of hostility. It ha... -
Get Ripped with High Intensity Interval Training
Get Ripped with High Intensity Interval Training
TEAM MD There is a prominent tissue in the body that is nearly universally hated; vehement, irrational anger is evoked. Entire industries have arisen to deprive, deplete, even hack away and suck out the vile offender— fat. Nearly everyone is so mad a...