5 More Tips for Serious Fat Loss

If you really want serious fat loss, keep reading, if not click delete and have some chips…..

And yes, I am going to start with this one AGAN!

1 – Don’t do long-distance cardio (as a fat loss mechanism). Go short & hard and get lean. Go long & soft and get scrawny.  Nobody looks good when they’re scrawny.  Even "Supermodels."

A hard body is better than a soft one, right?  You bet!  Have patience and understand that sprints, weights (preferebly big weights), turkey, steak, and leather jackets will make you bad!!! (in a good way)

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2 – If you have high bodyfat, 95% of your calories should come from lean protein, veggies, and little amounts of fruit.

The MAJORITY of your weekly meals need to consist of lean protein (chicken, fish, lean beef, protein powder).. and truckloads full of veggies When your bodyfat is high, you’re more prone to getting fat from carbs than when your bodyfat is low.   So when your bodyfat is high - Veggies over everything; No carbs on weekdays and again, Veggies over everything. When your bodyfat is low - Veggies over everything, with Oatmeal for breakfast and Sweet potatoes, brown rice, Quinoa, etc. for lunch.

3 – Pushing sleds, eating often, lifting weight, and PATIENCE will turn you into Xena the Warrior Princess. Or Thor, and maybe, just maybe SUPERMAN!

4 – Treadmills, and Elliptical machines exclusively, will turn you into a wet tortilla. Weak & scrawny. Yes.. yes.. yes, you WILL benefit from it over doing nothing, but do it correctly. 

Treadmills and long distances are good and will help some people’s look, but it won’t be a good look if you are looking for a tight, lean, tone body. Especially when you’re naked.

5 – The shortest road to success is to surround yourself with others who are further than you, and have done exactly what you want to do.  EXACTLY.. what you want to do..  What YOU.. want to do..

Know what YOU want first, then choose your surroundings wisely.

Doing what the ‘fit’ girls do just because they have definition in their arms is short-sighted.  Great physiques come from great strength. Great strength comes from great legs & back!  Nothing helps to sculpt your physique (and overall health) more than having STRENGTH.  Can you ever be too strong?  I have never heard one of my female or male clients say, "ok Greg, let's just go lighter, I am way too strong."  But I have heard some say, "why do my legs and arms get tired when I carry my kids? And sometimes my back hurts too."

The minute you stop training for strength, you’re going backwards, backwards, backwards all the way till you get skinny and butt-less and flat and soft.  Remember, there are only a few girls and guys who ‘get it’.. let's grow that number.  Those who "get it" equates to about the same amount of people in line at the pullup bar.  "Pullups, what...? pullups.....but I can't even do one"...... that's another topic.

I hope this made sense, model yourself after what's real, strength is unequivecally real!

Yours in health,
Greg


Greg DiRenzo, M.S.
Lakeside Fitness Center
"Small Hinges Swing Big Doors"