Who Wants To Know The Truth About Weight Loss, Fat Loss And
Metabolism?
-To reach a great height, a person needs to have great depth...
Anonymous.
My hope with any program that I design for an individual is
extraordinarily basic; it is to simply endow the client with the
reality and verity regarding weight loss or more specificly, fat
loss. Exercise and eating right have been both the passion and
pursuit of the bulk of what makes up my life. I have no ulterior
motives and no hidden agenda to sway or dissuade my clients or
readers.
Although my companies do carry a line of super-premium
supplements, it is only because I was fed up with the poor
quality and low nutrient factors of what the "MEGA" and "MLM"
suppliers were pawning off on the consumer, including myself,
that I chose to invest my own hard-earned cash and provide this
"super premium" product line to those who were willing to become
educated and enlightened about the efficacy of what they were
taking into their bodies. Incidentally, this was after more than
5 years of research and development, production and a lifetime
of application and education. I have said this before and I will
say it again... I am not a guru nor do I care to be! Call me a
pitch-man... I am... For the TRUTH! I will let my character;
integrity and my honesty speak for itself. I am successful at
what I do because of my ethics, values, and principles and
deep-seated knowing, that what I am doing here is bigger than
me, it is bigger than my current level of comprehension, that
what I am doing is right and it is the right thing... It is
REAL! So are my programs. Integrity is the cornerstone of my
profession.
I am not the first guy in the wellness, fitness or preventative
health care industries to tell you that magazines are generally
considered one of the most credible sources for exercise,
nutrition and fitness information. But that's not always the
case. You cannot believe everything you read.... One more time,
let me say it again; you cannot believe everything you read!
Quite a portion of magazine publishers own supplement companies,
who would of thunk? By strategically placing information about
"new supplement breakthroughs" into what is in fact an
advertorial, not an editorial, the buy-ability is to a great
extent more believable. That is exactly why magazines have
become the ideal instrument for selling weight loss products and
nutritional supplements. And so we have witnessed and can now
bear testimony to the clever birth of the supplement catalog.
Amazing...isn't it?
Furthermore, in the game of losing body fat and that is the
primary objective of not only my clients, but weight loss
consumers on a whole, a daily caloric deficit must be achieved.
This is a critical component and is undeviating. More simply
put, you must expend more calories in a given day than you
consume. There are three ways you can create this calorie
deficit: 1) the most obvious is to decrease your caloric intake
from food and increase the amount of calories expended daily
through exercise, or you can break them down separately; 2) by
increasing the amount of calories you burn daily through
exercise or; 3) by decreasing the amount of calories consumed
daily through food. Again, I repeat the first method is the most
obvious and most effectual, although of the two components
involved, the process of calorie expenditure is superior and is
undoubtedly the more efficient method. It is also emphatic that
you maintain muscle mass, while burning fat, the loss of muscle
is not an option! As absurd as it may be, what you are truly
looking to achieve is... Or more specifically what the objective
is...is to eat the right foods for sustaining bodily integrity
and employ exercise as your most significant fat-loss tool.
Incongruously, what is practiced more often than not is the
dead-opposite... Little to no exercise accompanied by severe
caloric reduction (starvation). This both slows the metabolism
and inhibits the ability to maintain lean mass. Exercise allows
you to establish a caloric deficit and burn fat without
diminishing your metabolism. Synergy is defined as an
exponential multiplication of efficacious parts, elements or
pieces, by placing two (2) or more effective components
together... The act of combining strength training
(intense-resistance-exercise) and cardio-respiratory exercise
with adequate, abundant nutrition and proper hydration will
result in exponentially multiplied results! SYNERGY, Baby!!!
Unfortunately, the most common approach to "fat-loss" is
erroneous and incorrect. Commercialized and I mean to include a
good deal of those; Dr. This-guy and Dr. That-guy authored or
endorsed diets all contain the same or a similar yet masked
versions of the same derogatory component... Exceedingly low
caloric intake! This results in instantaneous "weight-loss"!
Fantastic! Right? Wrong! Here is what is really going on... The
loss of lean-mass and water! Now if body fat is what you are
attempting to lose than why would you want to lose lean-mass,
which is where 'efficient' metabolism emanates from in the first
place? You don't! It is physiologically impossible to lose fat
for any prolonged period of time by starving yourself.
The human body, which indeed works in direct accord with the
human mind, is unambiguously too intelligent for this to work.
In an attempt to starve fat, you will in-fact starve muscle.
Moreover, since muscle is where your metabolism emanates from,
it is the prime element of your 'prospective' efficient
metabolism. The truth is, not only is muscle a more efficient
fuel source, but it is your body's preferred choice of fuel,
when starvation is invoked!
On a deeper level the greater injustice going on is that you are
slowing down your metabolism even further or perhaps initiating
the process of 'revoking' your metabolic rights depending on how
many times and how severely you have "starved" your metabolism!
Now that is not to say there is no hope for you, believe me...
There is! But I must stress this point. When your body enters
starvation mode, fat loss will severely slow or even cease as
your body tries to conserve energy. This is fact! But you say
conservation is good right Kurt? The answer again is wrong! Not
where human physiological or metabolic function is concerned. I
would venture to say that economy on a whole is not a good
thing; I mean I would like to think that if I give more, more
will come back to me... And If I give, I shall receive! Your
body or more distinctly, your metabolism functions under this
LAW! Ask Lance Armstrong, the man with the lowest resting heart
rate of any living man. He is the fittest, most 'fuel-efficient'
man on earth... WHY? Because he has mastered the art of
spending! The harder he works, the more efficient his body
responds and the better he becomes... Thus, so can YOU! Less is
not best! Provide adequately, yet abundantly and appropriately
(nutrition/hydration/sleep), spend...spend...spend (exercise,
both aerobic and anaerobically) and do them in unity and accord
of each other.
Until next time...