Monday, February 2, 2009

You CAN Lose Fat Gain Muscle With These 3 Tips - Guaranteed!

By Allen Brian

Getting too much muscle to your body too fast usually comes with fat to your body as well. That is a natural biological process if you want to gain muscle, if you want to have muscle mass, you have to understand this. Calories are a must and the more the better if you want to gain bigger muscle mass to your body. But you can't control all the added calories directly into your muscle growing process and force muscle growing. So, some of them will be transformed into fat.

If you want to make your body shape changes in a short period of time, you should focus on gaining muscle mass in a period of time and then focus on losing additional body fat in another period of time.

Because your muscle level will determine so much of your metabolic rate, it- much easier to get rid of the fat after you have built up the size of your muscles. For this reason, having a high level of muscle is important and is the best plan.

Based on this information, this is the goal of the weight gain phase: grow your muscle as big as possible and gain fat as few as possible. Losing fat completely is not what we want here; we just want to get them as small as possible.

It can be accomplished by three ways.

Count the exact additional calories you need.

Super nutrition is a phrase that differs from "optimal nutrition". Getting extra calories is needed to make your muscles larger, but eating as much as you can of random foods beyond what you need to make your muscle tissue larger will cause you to gain more fat than you should.

Calculate the calories that you need for maintaining your weight and add 15 to 20% of additional calories to it. That is a good extra calories for your muscle growth. If your extra calories intake falls in this range, then you don't need to make any change.

Pay attention to your nutrition choices.

Eating foods like red lean meat, unsaturated fats and natural/high fiber carbohydrates should be your number 1 choice. Don't just eat everything you like. You should eat something good for you. Such like eating lean meat and high fiber carbohydrates for stabilizing your blood sugar level and stay away from high amount of saturated fats.

Begin cardio exercise.

Cardio workout is less important for build bulk muscle, but it will help you gain less fat. You don't need to go overboard, it is just an additional workout. Just keep cardio workout high strength and short. Keep the workout within 10 to 20 minutes long that can help maintain your muscle mass.

Once you've gained big muscle mass that you are pleased, and then it's time to switch to fat loss exercises and focus on that to help you drop extra body fat and keep your muscle mass level. You will gain muscle and fat at the same time. It is an inevitable truth. Instead of trying to totally avoid gaining fat, you should learn how to make fat storage as little as possible in muscle building process. - 16083

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