hi guy's can i lose weight and build good muscle mass at the same time?
i weight train four times a week and do loads of cardio aswell been doing this for a few months now.
What do you do when you weight train?
i am eating loads of chicken, fish, vegies, fruit and a bit of red meat and i have cut out some carbs like bread, pasta, rice and potatoes.
thanks for any advice
rich
After reading the links, I would like you to come back and post your Maintenance line of calories.
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When I write this I am assuming you have no health conditions.
Yes, it is possible to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time; however, certain individual conditions need to be present for this opposing manifest to evolve (both internally and externally). Otherwise, as one progresses with diet and fitness, one will have to do one (muscle growth) or the other (fat loss).
For example. When one first begins a diet and training routine, and this person has neither dieted (internal change) nor weight trained (external change effecting the body internally) before, the body "tends" to respond rather strong to this stumulus because both the diet and weight training are rather severe changes as compared to what the body had been used to.
In this situation, think of the diet something like this: One is walking solid ground (no changes in diet for months/years) toward the edge of a cliff. Then you stop at this edge (you are thinking of changing things up in your head), then you suddenly jump off (actually change in diet). The sudden plunge (say one deficiting to lose weight), is such a drop/change contradictive to the norm, the body gets shocked, and with things considered equal, the person should drop weight at a good pace. This same situation occurs when weight training is introduced at the same time.
However, there is land (the bottom) below this cliff. This bottom is the end. In other words, it only lasts a short time.
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Some new-persons-to-diet-and-weight-training (even the ones training and dieting for long periods) miss a critical fact that there is a bottom or an end, when things stay the same (the body adapts--does it have a choice?); the simultaneous growth and loss will cease, or fat loss or muscle growth with stop, and one will eventually have to embrace and/or tweak the laws of energy balance and deal effectively with the bodys functional adaptability (hopefully with a thorough understanding on the power of calorie manipulation and exercise manipulation), for additional positive progress, IMO.
As you gain knowledge of diet and fitness training, I want you to remember one thing: Functional Adaptability.
The body is not a dumb, dumb, through its very design intention and precise and refined adaption capability. It adapts and overcomes, and likewise, you will be "required" to adapt and overcome. You remember this and apply knowledge of diet and fitness, and you will be successful.
Speaking for me, this is the heart and soul of my personal success. I have fought "with" this design intention many times and got mad at my body many times; however, the mind can be the determining factor in "properly" deciphering bodily feedback. All bodily feed back is good (IMO), good or bad, one just needs to find the one that works. And, the body tells you one way or the other.
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I cant say with absolute certainty if you are in the category of new to diet and fitness. With not knowing your prior history leading into your diet and training regime, your current diet and training regime (specifically), and how long you were doing them, leaves much information excluded.
I am going to provide you with some links to get you education started. Meanwhile, come back and post your Maintenance line of calories (you should learn this through these links), and post some questions about your diet and exercise.
Go here and read on some basic and fundamental information:
Weight Training 101
Nutrition
Weight Training Technical Articles
How to get abs guide
Go here for some thoughts on the mental side:
Weight Loss Intricate
The ChillOut Log by Chillen
(allot of pages to go through, but there IS good information that may help you if you take the time to seek it)
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These links should get the "road started"
I am here to help you in any way I can to "assist" you in your personal success and so are many other persons on this forum. You have come to the right place to seek help and advice.
I wish you the best in all that you in life and in fitness,
ROCK ON!
Chillen
