Quote Originally Posted by Inkslinger View Post
I think you like many are stuck in the dogmatic idea that things like running are the best route for fat loss. People in the fitness world have been preaching the opposite for quite a while, and the science has finally caught up to prove them correct. Building muscle is far superior to fat loss and body decomposition than long steady state cardio. Even if you don’t want to join a gym, you can make good progress with body weight exercises. Maybe buy yourself a 35lb kettle bell. You can whoop your our ass with that one piece alone. I’m a sample size of one and here is what I experienced. As an experiment, I’ve taken all distance running out of my life around the middle of April. I’ve then used the extra free time to resistance train even more. I dropped 2% body fat and put on more muscle. I’m at the point where I’m seriously contemplating adding fast food to my diet just to be able to meet my calories for the day (3500-4500). You definitely should be tracking your food. Maybe not forever, but it definitely helps you build a better understanding of what and how much your eating.
I've been tracking food for almost a year now. The only thing I don't track are greens. I'm not weighing, measuring, counting spinach and broccoli! Think it's something like 220 days with the occasional day not counted.

I don't have the space to swing a kettlebell. I can do anything slightly above head hight without being careful about the ceiling! If I just raise my hand up I can touch the ceiling without standing on my toes.

I'm certainly not going to argue with professionals in the fitness world it's just that I've never seen a fat marathon runner, soccer player, basketball player... Not to say they don't do anything else except run but that is a huge part of what they do. At the time it was the easiest thing to do. It just required getting up.



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