Thursday, February 26, 2009

Lose Fat Gain Muscle at the Same Time

By Allen Brian

There is no doubt that if you gain muscle to your body too fast, you will also get some fat. You have to accept this truth if you want to gain weight and muscle mass. This is a natural phenomenon of muscle building. If you want to get larger muscles, you will have to eat more calories to allow your body to build larger muscles. But it is impossible for all of your additional calories to go for growing your muscle. Fat will be generated because of the rest calories.

In order to get the biggest appearance changes for a set time frame, you have to repeat the process of focusing on gaining muscle mass and then focusing on dropping extra fat. Again and again.

Because the rate of metabolic is controlled by your muscle level, the fat can be easily removed after you have build a significant muscle mass. For this reason, having a high level of muscle is important and is the best plan.

In terms of the information, your next step should be: build as much muscle size as possible while minimizing body fat gains. During this first phase, your goal is not to get rid of fat- only to avoid gaining too much of it.

There are three ways that this can be accomplished.

Know exactly how many extra calories you need.

Optimal nutrition is a standard, but there is no standard for "super nutrition". Extra calories are key elements that can grow your muscle bigger, but if you eat too much unnecessary foods that over the needs for making your muscle bigger will lead you to get more fat than you should.

15 to 20 percent of extra calories of your daily needs are a good point for your muscle growth. You don't need to change calories intake if your extra calories are in this range.

Watch your nutritional choices.

Your food intake is very important; you should eat natural fiber carbohydrates, lean meat and healthy, unsaturated fats. Stay away from high amount of saturated fats, eat more lean protein and eat high/natural fiber carbohydrates to keep your blood sugar level stable is key for building your muscle.

Begin cardio exercise.

Cardio workout is no needed to be overdone. When you get more muscles, cardio workouts can decrease the fat storage in the muscle building process. Keep your workouts short but with high intensity. Don't perform long workouts, 10 to 20 minutes workout are good and can prevent muscle loss.

After having large muscles mass and you are satisfied with the sizes. Next is trying to keep that muscle mass level and start following and concentrating on fat loss workout and get extra fat away. Fat and muscles go along together. You can't avoid that. Gaining some body fat is inevitable and the trick is simply to minimize it rather than totally avoid it. - 16083

About the Author: