9 Steps to Burn Fat Without Losing Muscle

Learn exactly how to Lose Fat WITHOUT sacrificing precious Muscle Mass during a cut or diet. Believe it or not, you can even lose weight and build muscle at the same time. Find out what the science says about burning fat and building muscle simultaneously. This detailed body recomposition strategy can be used to get lean without losing muscle.
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When most people lose fat they also lose a lot of muscle, which is a huge problem because the dream outcome for most people isn't necessarily to just lose weight or burn fat, it's actually to improve their body composition, which essentially boils down to reducing body fat while also increasing muscle mass. And if you lose muscle every time you try to cut away some fat you're just going to stay stuck in a cyclical process where you take one step back for every step you move forward. So to actually ensure progress I want to give you guys 9 rules that you should follow whenever you're trying to reduce your love handles, your belly fat, or any kind of fat without wasting precious muscle mass in the process.
And the first thing is to make sure you base your caloric intake on your current body fat percentage to maximize fat loss while minimizing muscle loss. This is so important because the less body fat you carry, the more prone you are to muscle loss. On the other hand, if you have a high body fat percentage, you can diet much more aggressively without risking muscle loss. This is because there's more stored energy available for your body to tap into and use as fuel, when you're overweight or when you have a high body fat percentage. So your body doesn’t need to break down muscle tissue to get that fuel. So based on the scientific data here's exactly how I would set up your calorie deficit as a function of your body fat percentage (1). As you can see the table on the screen (1.5) shows us that if you happen to be a man with an average body fat percentage of 15 to 21 percent, you can reduce your calories by 20 to 30 percent from maintenance without risking too much muscle loss. On the other hand, if you're a man with a body fat percentage that's greater than 26 percent you can literally reduce your calories by 40 to 50 percent without risking excessive muscle loss. The easiest way to figure out approximately what level your body fat percentage is right now would be by looking on the screen and choosing the range that looks most similar to your body. And to figure out your maintenance calories you can either click the link below in the description for our macro calculator or you can google a macro calculator. Just Keep in mind that it's totally fine to diet less aggressively than the numbers that you see on these tables, but to avoid muscle loss, I highly recommend not exceeding the calorie deficit ranges that you see for each category. Also, since no macro calculator is perfect, you may want to keep track of how much weight you lose every week. If you lose more weight than the numbers in the “Maximum weekly weight loss” column indicates then that could be a sign that you’re dieting too aggressively. (2)
The next super important rule to follow is to Maintain Your Training Intensity as you cut down. From the training side of things, this is by far the best thing you can do. Unfortunately, when you’re in a calorie deficit, it can become harder to recover from your workouts because the calorie deficit itself triggers physiological changes that impair recovery. For example, there will be a reduction in testosterone and IGF-1 production along with a simultaneous increase in cortisol. (3) All of these changes are far from ideal for muscle growth and recovery. So most people will adjust their workout to make up for their reduced energy levels and their reduced recovery capacity. The big problem is that usually, people do this by reducing their training intensity. In other words, by reducing the amount of weight they lift. And that's a HUGE mistake because there is a very close correlation between strength and muscle mass (4). This means your ability to maintain muscle while you cut is very closely related to your ability to maintain your strength levels while you cut.
So even though you will most likely lose some strength each week as you diet you shouldn't just willingly reduce your weight load every week because you have less energy. You should fight to maintain that same intensity throughout your cut almost in the same way that you would train if you were trying to gain strength. You should only reduce the weight when you physically can't lift the weight for the intended rep range that you're going for while maintaining good form of course. Instead of reducing intensity to match your lower energy levels, it's a better idea to reduce your rep and set volume during a cut. So for example before your cut you might've been doing 225 for 10 reps, but...

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References 1. How aggressively you set up your calorie deficit/diet and how fast you lose weight should be based on your body fat percentage. bit.ly/3kbEGaU 2. Low-fat diets appear to decrease testosterone levels in men pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33741447/ 3. A calorie deficit can trigger physiological changes that impair recovery, such as a reduction in testosterone and IGF-1 levels and an increase in cortisol. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3569090/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2673798/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20368473/ 4. Some of the studies that we’ve covered multiple times before on this channel are the ones that show there is a very close correlation between strength and muscle mass pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24169471/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10956365/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11990746/ 5. Research links the regular consumption of an egg-based breakfast to increased weight loss over time. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4863262/ 6. “Egg breakfast, which is associated with an increase of serum PYY and GLP-1” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24923232/ 7. Research shows that calorie cycling improves diet adherence, diet satisfaction, and weight loss compared to continuous calorie restriction. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24829732/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23591120/ 8. “It has been shown that muscle protein synthetic rate (MPS) is elevated in humans by 50% at 4 hrs following a bout of heavy resistance training, and by 109% at 24 hrs following training.” ttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8563679 9. At an average time of 36 hrs postexercise, MPS in the exercised arm had returned to within 14% of the control arm value, ttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8563679 10. Fiber is highly satiating. Research shows that for every 14 extra grams of fiber people consume, food intake tends to reduce by around 10%. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11396693/ 11. Scientists estimate Australian Aboriginals ate between 40-80 grams of fiber per day. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19087457/ 12. “The overall dietary intake of fiber from all sources ranges from about 150 to 225 g/d for an adult male.” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20416127/ 13. Being inconsistent with your eating schedule increases hunger while impairing insulin sensitivity, and the thermic effect of food, all of which can impair belly fat loss. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15220950/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15085170/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25755093/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25545767/ 14. An increase in cortisol tends to impair belly fat burning, which partially explains why people with chronically elevated cortisol levels are characterized by abdominal obesity. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9467584/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7673425/ 15. As acetate enters your blood, fat burning is majorly suppressed, which causes most of the fatty acids in your blood to be stored as fat. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10539756/ 16. Nine servings of alcohol post-workout decreased protein synthesis by 24%. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922864/ 17. “We conclude that alcohol ingestion suppresses the anabolic response in skeletal muscle and may therefore impair recovery and adaptation to training and/or subsequent performance.” www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922864/ 18. Research shows consuming more omega-3’s improves exercise performance, muscle growth, and lean body mass. link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11332-016-0322-9 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30052800 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26679702 19. Ab-specific training won't help you burn fat off your belly without Losing Muscle. For example in the study below, after doing four hours of ab training a week for six weeks, “there was no significant effect . . . on body weight, body fat percentage. . . or abdominal circumference.” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21804427/ 20. Bulking aggressively doesn't increase muscle growth compared to a more moderate approach, as shown by a 2013 study published in the European Journal of Sport Science. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23679146/ 21. A 2012 meta-analysis found adding cardio to a resistance training routine reduced muscle growth effect size by 39 percent See figure 1.9 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22002517/

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0:40 1. Base caloric intake on current body fat percentage 2:30 2. Maintain training intensity as you cut down 4:30 3. Calorie cycling 5:54 4. Make sure your diet contains enough fat 7:15 5. Avoid excessive Cardio 8:22 6. Limit or avoid alcohol 9:17 7. Get enough fiber and protein 10:45 8. Eat a high protein breakfast 11:50 9. Maintain a consistent eating schedule

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@@vitto1458 varies for every individual. Best way is to use the online calculator for how many calories you need. Then eat that number of calories a day for a week. Weigh at the start and see what you gain/lose at the end of the week. Then either add say 200 or take off 200 and repeat untill you're either losing 1kg a week or whatever you want to achieve. It's recommended to drop weight slowly though otherwise it can cause you to lose more muscle in the process

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