Lose Fat, Not Muscle and Feel Good As Well

By Elois Sehr


If your life was quite laid back and sedentary and now you've decided to do something about it by gaining muscle and losing fat then we have some words of caution. If you are beginning from scratch you will be better off simply easing into things than rushing into them. Changing your life really quickly by incorporating a full blown diet and workout regime will usually end in failure. Sure, some people have the disposition that allows them to do that. But the majority of people have a very difficult time sustaining those kinds of changes all at once. So we would recommend that you ease in your dietary changes and your new exercise regime slowly by forming new habits.

Probably the best approach to burn fat not muscle is the eclectic one in which you use a variety of methods. You will find out that various methods work together much better than others, so bare this in mind. But the biggest factor in determining how successful you are is your diet, so some good changes may be required. There's so much information out there regarding this subject, so doing this with your diet won't be difficult at all. The next piece of the puzzle is your exercise and routines; they must be analyzed. That is assuming you do some exercise already, but if you don't that's fine.

The next suggestions are about how you can burn fat without harming your muscle mass too much. But first, it is important you understand that roughly the first twenty or so minutes of exercise produces glycogen burn instead of fat burn. So, keeping that in mind, you should start off by doing a bit of resistance work during those first 20 or so minutes. Firstly, warming up and stretching exercises should be done and then the resistance training.

Then after that you will be able to start burning fat, not glycogen, with some cardio exercise. So, you should attempt this for some time and then stand back and examine the results.

Avoid as many simple carbohydrates as possible, and we mean simple sugars in this context. This type of sugar will become quickly turned into fat, and a lot of complex carbs will do the same thing. Three simple sugars, as an example, are fructose, sucrose and glucose. However we really must mention something regarding fructose in fruits. Even though they do indeed have a simple sugar, they're still highly recommended to eat as they have lots of other very beneficial properties. In them you'll find minerals, vitamins, good fiber and antioxidants. When trying to just burn fat and not muscle mass there are many approaches that are flexible. That is actually a good thing because it means we have variety and choices for accomplishing this goal.




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