Fat Loss, you gotta focus?

Dragan

Right, once again i find myself thinking about thinks and then one of the T-Nation regular authors beat me to it. Now don't get me wrong, what i was thinking wasn't anything new, but it was a new approach to me.

The article below is absolutely worth a read folks! You can discuss here if you would like to.

http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=1526539

From my point of view i am now at the end of day 3 of my latest shift into low calories and low carbs. I always find the best way to survive any kind of serious "cut" is to be soley and 100% thinking about your target. Sure your tired, sure you a little run down and sure you want that chocolate cake but it's worth it. Each meal, each run, each workout is doing what it should do.

So, my simply question is when your on a cut should the mentality be to do what it takes in the gym to keep your metabolism really high?

Dr4gul4

Wow thats quite the article.

Two things thats come to mind.

a) they mention that it's possible to train on say Monday morning and have you're metabolism still working away 36 hours after that.

b) basically, you should do every thing in order to loose weight, Weights, cardio and eat right, then you will loose weight.

but wont that happen if you do all those things any way ?

I'd like to try some thing like this my self just to see how much of a benefit HIIT would have on my weights training, and on my over all goal to loss the rest of the belly.

However as Alwyn says it's all about time managent as is i spend a good 2 hours in the gym on each visit. thats at least 4 times if not 5 a week.

But any way, who else has a random though on this article ?

Leon11

I would say do what it takes to keep your metabolism really high. Is it possible to cut whilst using anacat as I'm following the principles at present.

In general I think it is fair to say that it can generally be hard to improve your weights when your trying to shed bodyfat. Psychologically I think your body knows your not gonna feed it enough so subconsciously you won't give 100% if you catch my drift.

Hanley

Dragan wrote:

Right, once again i find myself thinking about thinks and then one of the T-Nation regular authors beat me to it. Now don't get me wrong, what i was thinking wasn't anything new, but it was a new approach to me.

The article below is absolutely worth a read folks! You can discuss here if you would like to.

http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=1526539

From my point of view i am now at the end of day 3 of my latest shift into low calories and low carbs. I always find the best way to survive any kind of serious "cut" is to be soley and 100% thinking about your target. Sure your tired, sure you a little run down and sure you want that chocolate cake but it's worth it. Each meal, each run, each workout is doing what it should do.

So, my simply question is when your on a cut should the mentality be to do what it takes in the gym to keep your metabolism really high?

Hmmmm... we're both cutting at the same time. Hmmmm.....

t-ha

Leon11 wrote:

I would say do what it takes to keep your metabolism really high. Is it possible to cut whilst using anacat as I'm following the principles at present.

In general I think it is fair to say that it can generally be hard to improve your weights when your trying to shed bodyfat. Psychologically I think your body knows your not gonna feed it enough so subconsciously you won't give 100% if you catch my drift.

It's not really for "cutting" - it's more for maintenance/lean bulking. That said, I'd still carb up before hitting the gym & have a good meal afterwards - even if cutting. Also - give it 100%!

Lastly, if you want to burn fat through exercise, weights or cardio - intense bouts with short rest periods are king!

hunnymonster

t-ha wrote:

Lastly, if you want to burn fat through exercise, weights or cardio - intense bouts with short rest periods are king!

king and killer. I suggest using the mantra "t-ha is for it" repeated several times for the 8th (th or whatever ramp is about to kill you) rep of any kind of HIIT session. It might just stop your guts depositing themselves outside your body.

Degsy

In my case its been a slow process let me tell you!

Dr4gul4

Degsy wrote:

In my case its been a slow process let me tell you!

i'll second that, damn you foolish childhood :rolleyes:

Patto

Dragan wrote:

The article below is absolutely worth a read folks! You can discuss here if you would like to.

http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=1526539

I would be faitly doubious about some of the findings of this article. To me all it proves is in starvation mode (800cal a day, OMG you wouldn't be fit to standup never mind go for a 50 min run) overweight people burn more fat lifting weights than running at a low intensity.

If you add up the numbers. Take a 75Kg person who is over weight put them running 40min x 3 times a week at low intensity. That adds up to about 2000Cals at this intensity about 50% of that energy will be from fats. Make it 900cal of fat energy @ 9cal ber 1g of fat that is a total weekly weight loss from fat of 100g. Over 12 weeks 1200g of fat = 2.6Lb total weight loss from just running alone. Now the study reckons only 1Lb of weight loss was attributed to the running. What does this say? 1. I would question the accuracy of the measurements in this study. 2. Maybe it can be attributed to the how the body hangs on to body fat when in starvation mode.