Hello again,So, after extensive reading about having an athletic body, it has become obvious that you will need to have muscle. Without the muscle, you will not be able to perform even basic exercises. You will also work those muscles on a regular basis. After stalking numerous athletes, weightlifters, wrestlers and fitness models, it is also sung that you have to burn fats. And it has been proven over and over and over, the more muscles you have, the more fats you burn.
Being heavy is usually not a fat issue only. Fats and muscles have different densities. While fats are lighter, muscles ate more denser and compact, thus use up less space than fats. That is why, two people may weigh the same, while one is trim and lean , the other will be bursting out of their skin.
Your body will normally store excess food as fats, in readiness for a shortage. Most of the fats are stored under the skin while some are stored around organs. Fats stored around the vital organs shield them from impact shock. Excess fats will however strain the normal functioning of these organs. Normally, your body will use up the calories available in the blood to fuel the vital organs like the brain, heart and so on, to ensure that life is supported. When you skip an occasional meal, your body will turn on the stored fats and use them to fuel the body as required, and then compensate on the next meal. Therefore, when you gradually reduce your food intake, you will force the body to turn on the stored fats so as to provide fuel. This is why weight watchers count their calories.
***NOTE: skipping meals will not enhance this process, it will reverse it. Your body’s metabolism is synchronized with your food intake sessions. When you skip meals on the regular, your body will slow down the metabolism, hence slowing down fat burning to whenever necessary. This is because your body is aware that there is a food shortage and will downsize to stay alive for as long as possible. When you partake your next meal, your body will store as much as possible in readiness for the ‘continued food shortage’. Even if you are quite active, you will not lose much weight since your body is adapting to using as little food as possible. This explains why some people lead very active lifestyles and eat very little, yet they cannot lose weight at all, and also why some people are sedentary and eat in buckets, yet they never gain as much as a gram!
When you exercise regularly, your body goes into longer periods of anabolic state. Its in this state that the body will use up available nutrients and energy to rebuild and ‘refurbish’ itself in readiness for the next workout. Particularly, muscle building and regeneration is more pronounced at this time. The more intense your workout is, the longer your anabolic state. Particularly, strength training is known to trigger the body into a longer anabolic state when compared to cardio, hence lots of weight training by weightlifters and fitness models. The more muscle you build, the more nutrition you need to fuel their activities and, and hence the more fats you burn.
If you work out intensely and are already building muscles, but your food intake remains low, your body, via the liver, will turn on the muscles to provide the necessary proteins and calories that are needed to rebuild cells and sustain life. This eventually leads to wasting away of the muscle mass.
So, as your training grows more intense, you will notice that you no longer gain muscle, but you are losing weight if not maintaining it yet you are very lean. This is the best time to increase your food intake gradually, especially proteins. This may be done by extra meals or use of already balanced nutritional supplements, especially mass gainer formulas.
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