Losing Body Fat

Skinny but out of shape!

Far too many people are focused weight loss and that makes me nuts, the other thing they are too  focused on is how many calories their worked out burned at the gym and when they leave the gym they may not treat their bodies right and this is where the battle is lost.

Stop focusing on how many calories you burn in the gym and instead focus on how your body expends calories outside the gym, and focus on what you're putting in your body for fuel. 90% nutrition and 10% exercise.


"Strength training is a critical component of any program than emphasizes long-term fat loss." The more muscle you have, the more fuel you are constantly burning. This is the advantage strength training over cardio-vascular exercise especially if your goal is to be LEAN. Plus with strength training you burn calories throughout the day regardless of what you are doing, strength training will speed up your metabolism and you have the added benefit of post exercise oxygen utilization or after burn -- even when you're doing nothing but sitting on the couch.

With most forms of traditional steady-state cardio, you expend calories while you're exercising, but once you stop, you quickly go back to your normal metabolic rate.

Cardio programs, treadmills or elliptical trainers is often seen as the quick fix to shed body fat, and they are certainly useful if your goal is to improve cardiovascular health, endurance or simply to burn some extra calories, but strength training is a more powerful tool. This is why I say, know what your goal is and have a plan on getting there. You will never get to where you want to go if you're not using the right road map.

Think about this, say you get a job somewhere; what is the first thing they give you?... A title right? Perhaps it's clerk, or manager?

Along with that title there are things expected of you, some tasks that need completion. some goals your employer has for you in mind, you'd think would be important to know what exactly is expected of you? You'd want to know what you have to get done, and then construct a plan on getting there.

So when you are at the gym, what's you job title are you a power lifter, sprinter, body-sculptor, endurance runner. Once you know what your title is (What's your job). Next, how am I going to get there? What's my plan? And don't leave it open-ended, what and by when... Be realistic with the when!