Trying to drop weight can be quite a challenge sometimes. We must manage our time wisely and put our time and efforts into the most successful methods. I am only going to discuss the first two factors that play the largest role in maintaining a slim, defined phisique.
Nutrition is the best way to change your phisique with little to no time to workout. Even if our schedules just don’t allow enough time to make it in to the gym everyday, we still have to eat. I will be posting some simple nutritional guidlines to follow a little later, so keep your eyes open.
Strength training comes next in line. The reason being; creating a stress to your body that forces change is vital to ensure fat loss. Resistance strength training will force your body to adapt to the new (or overloaded) stimulus. The way our bodies do this is by developing our muscles to help handle this new stress in our routine. Muscle is alive and needs a fuel source to maintain itself. This fuel source is essentially going to come from your fat cells. Each lb. of muscle requires approximately 50 calories per day to maintain itself. That may not seem like a lot, but it will defineately add up over time. Just think about what another 5 lbs. of lean muscle would do for your metabolism. 5 lbs. of muscle x 50 calories a day x 7 days a week = 1750 calories per week, or 91,000 calories per year. That’s the equivelant of 26 lbs. of fat per year.
Let’s go attack our goals with a well defined plan. Start with a sound nurition background. This can be attained in several ways. Enlisting in a nutritional education program or simply doing the labor of sifting through the materials out there. This will help us gain a solid understanding of what “proper nutrition” is. Finally, if strength training is not being incooperated, it must be somehow be safely introduced into our routines.
It's go time ;-D
Jared Woolever
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