Originally Posted by
Dr. Bullseye
The key to weight control is 90% diet. Forget exercise. You can stay home, eat all day long and get bigger (around the middle) or you can stop eating and lose fat---it will fly off with absolutely no food. But, to do what you want to do, get a little bigger and stronger while losing body fat, you have to do specific exercises. You must push your body beyond its hope of recovery. Of course you can only do this for short bursts or you will die of a heart attack. This is interval training. While in the over stressed mode, your body will burn fat. Since it was surplus, your body won't be so quick to call for it to be replaced. In other words it won't make you as hungry. Weight lifting or any resistance exercise has the opposite result, it makes you disproportionately hungry. That is why guys wanting to just gain weight lift weights.
There are many ways to achieve this now. The TV "P-90" type workouts, sprint-jog intervals, circuit training on a universal type machine, swimming sprints, etc. The important thing is to go deep into your reserves for much longer than makes you comfortable which is followed by rest or cool down training and then repeat. You should want to vomit after this or you are not working hard enough. And this is precisely why this type of training is so infrequently done by people. They are lazy, want to stay in their comfort zone and do what they have always done and hope to become lean, cut giants. If you have the will to do this, you will drop fat. Once the fat is off you can go back to whatever weightlifting routine makes you happy.
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