Q: From all I’ve read and experienced, losing bodyfat is all about reducing calories. If you take in fewer calories than you burn every day, you lose weight; if you take in more calories than you burn each day, you gain weight. To me, that means The Ultimate Fat-to-Muscle Workout has to require reduced calories or it can’t work. But then there’s nothing left to build muscle. I’d really like to know the truth about losing fat and gaining muscle. Comments?
A: Your energy equation is exactly why the Fat-to-Muscle program works. It can create a fat-burning calorie deficit, but not by forcing you to run extra miles every day; it stokes your metabolism so you use more energy, or fat, even at rest…
One way The Ultimate Fat-to-Muscle Workout does that is through muscle damage. At each workout, you create microtears in a number of muscle structures. The repair process takes days—and that regeneration process also requires a lot of energy that comes from
Imagine a car and how it burns gasoline. If you drive 60 MPH on the freeway, your car burns a certain amount of gas. Around 60 MPH is considered an efficient highway speed for optimal fuel usage. If you push the engine by driving 75 or 80, your gas mileage goes down—your car burns more fuel per mile than at the slower speed. By revving the engine, you’ve essentially accelerated the car’s “metabolism,” or fuel usage.
That’s what happens when you create the right amount of muscle trauma in the gym with your weight workouts—your metabolism revs up so your body burns more fuel—your metabolic engine is running faster as it repairs the damage. Scientists have found that the negative, or lowering, stroke of each repetition during a weight workout produces the most damage, so slowing down that part of the rep can create more trauma for a fat-to-muscle effect…
Research shows that the muscle-repair process uses a lot of bodyfat, so if you’re getting enough complete protein regularly so that amino acids are present to build muscle tissue, you burn fat and build muscle simultaneously, the ideal body-transformation scenario.
Of course, metabolism works in the opposite direction also. Say you get the notion that since fewer calories make you burn more fat, you’re going to go for broke and only eat one meal a day. Bad idea. Now your body senses famine, or starvation. Suddenly your metabolism slows to a crawl, burning a lot fewer calories, but that’s not the worst part. During all those consecutive hours your body doesn’t have food, it hordes bodyfat and jettisons a more expendable tissue—muscle. Yikes! That’s right, you burn off muscle for energy—and less muscle means your metabolism slows even further. Double yikes!
(NOTE: This doesn’t pertain to systematic fasting as with Intermittent Fasting noted in Super-Size Crash Course.)
That’s why you should eat a small meal every two to three hours, and those meals should be protein dominant. Bonus: Protein actually takes more energy to digest and assimilate; that’s another key fat-to-muscle principle.
So if your bodyweight is constant and you do nothing else but start using The Ultimate Fat-to-Muscle Workout, you should automatically get a
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