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Date d'inscription : 28/05/2005
 | | The 3 Tiers of Fat Loss | |
The
3 Tiers of Fat Loss
by Dr. John Berardi A
three-tiered, integrated approach to fat loss is always warranted,
yet rarely found. Magazine
articles often cover only one piece of the fat loss puzzle. One
article will discuss supplements for fat loss, another will discuss
diets for fat loss, and yet another will discuss exercise for fat
loss. Now, don’t get me wrong; I’m not dissin’ the mags. After
all, the very nature of the article format is to be brief and cover
one topic per article. Yet all this disjointed information can,
at best, produce sub-optimal results. For
example, if you were to try to get lean by just popping a few pills,
your results would be suboptimal, especially since many supplement
approaches increase fat mobilization, but don’t improve fat oxidation.
In other words, you can pop those fatty acids out of your adipose
cells all day long, but if that fat isn’t oxidized (via an appropriate
exercise plan coupled with a hypocaloric diet), those fatty acids
will just be recycled — sent right back to those fat cells
from whence they came. Here’s
another example of what I’m talking about. If you try to get lean
by dieting only, you’re bound to see larger decreases in muscle
mass than if you'd exercised appropriately during your diet phase.
With losses in muscle mass come losses in basal metabolic rate
(BMR), decreased exercise and non-exercise energy expenditure,
and decreased exercise performance. Not exactly the recipe for
long term leanness, eh? Finally,
since most exercise programs don’t have enough volume to produce
fat loss, in the absence of some sort of energy manipulation (dietary
changes) your body composition won’t budge much at all. If you
don’t have time (or the recovery resources) to train for a few
hours a day, good luck getting lean while still eating Krispy Kreme! So
in the end, it’s only in the integration of diet, training and
supplements that the most effective fat loss can occur. | |
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