texmo

Try counting your calories. If you multiply your body weight by 15 it will give you your approximate daily calorie intake. Work out how many calories you are currently consuming and go from there. Start with taking off about 200 calories at a time.
I found that if I didn't eat anything bar 10 almonds after 6pm my body responded very well. This worked for me but may not work for you.

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jplaca

when you do cardio, wear sweatshirts from head to toe.. also increase your cardio time

If you do not feel like upping your cardio time, try the following routine:
5 min warm up
2 min sprint (90%)
1 min rest (60%)
2 min sprint (90%)
1 min rest (60%)
....
until you reach your 33 minutes. Leave the last few minutes for cool down

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texmo

Why do this? More pressure on your heart and you dont preform as well. You just drink back all sweat in the form of water because you dehydrate your self so much. Due to over exerting yourself you dont exercise as hard for as long so you dont burn as many calories.
IMHO I dont agree with wearing a sweatsuit or swearshrit while training. Unless totaly hung over then it can help...

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jplaca

By putting more pressure on your heart, you will perform better! If you do not push yourself to the limits, how do you expect to get better?

By sweating, you are losing a lot of weight because your body will start to feast off of body fat once it has expended all of its water weight

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texmo

Sure you keep telling yourself that as you lose all you lean muscle mass as your body starts to eat at it due to over exerting yourself and your body using all the enzymes in your muscles as energy. If you operate at over 65% of your heart rate you will break down musscle mass.
You lose that much water you will deplete all your body salts and lose energy fast. Ever wondered why people drink flat coke when running marathons? To get their blood sugars and salts up due to sweating so much simply.

I never said dont push yourself but pushing yourself to your limits and putting pressure on your heart are two diffrent things.

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OneBigThrow

nah man i dont think thats true (maybe you are right) but your body burns fat then muscle...in the process you sweat to keep your body from overheating

thats the problem with wearing sweats, the system of persipiration is dependent on transpiration...water evaporating ogff your skin into the air pulls more water through the pores...think of it like a tree or a plant drawing water through its roots and out fo its leaves

if that water is being trapped in a sweatshirt the water concentration increases outside of the body and less water is willing to leave the body through evaporation, as a result you get no evaporative cooling and you increase your risk of overheating

**** man, i aint hatin i workout in sweats too but just keep that kinda stuff in mind and dotn try to tough guy it in a sweatshirt if you feel like you cant do it anymore

at least sweats still allow for evaporation though, plastic suits are a dead end

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texmo

60-65% MHR vs 80-85% MHR
Total Calories expended per min. 4.86 vs 6.86
Fat Calories expended per min. 2.43 vs 2.7
Total Calories expended in 30 min. 146 vs 206
Total Fat calories expended in 30 min. 73 vs 82
Percentage of fat calories burned 50% vs 39.85%

There... at 80% or more you are burning 11% less fat then at 60%. You are also burning 50% more calories. So you are burning almost twice as much mucsle. Now thats at 206 calories for 30 minutes. Skipping you burn 250 calories per 30 minutes. Now lets say you wear a sweat shrit your heart rate rises more but same amount of activity. Same calories burned but higher MHR equals more muscle burned.

Happy?

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SmashingMachine

No Texmo's on the right track. If your Heart rate runs that high it's considered Aerobic. Aerobic burns glycogen from your blood stream and breaks down muscle to fuel your body. AnAerobic burns fat...thus you have to maintain your heart rate in a lower range. That's why most treadmills and eliptical trainers have different zones...i.e..."aerobic zone, fat burning zone...etc. Weight training at a good pace with high reps lower weights and interval training burns fat up well because it's anaerobic. That's why you never see a muscular/buff marathon runner.

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FatCatMC

First off, this is extremely vague. What are you actually eating? We need to see your actual diet here, until then we can't tell you anything. How many cals are you taking in a day? Too little and you'll just eat up all the muscle you built and hold on to the remaining fat. If you are eating 4-5 salads a day and a few protein shakes, that's far from good. We need specifics.

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Crashsti

Hey guys, For me the key to maintaining a lean build has always been consistency. I don't agree with the idea of bulking up over the winter and then looking to diet down for summer. For bodybuilding its always been a common practice to pack on as much mass in the offseason without concern for added fat. Then cut back calories and drop the pounds for contests. I suppose when your goal is gaining mass for bodybuilding this is a realistic strategy but for health and athletic performance this is a recipe for failure. Fighters, who can easily be considered the fittest of athletes train hard year round, keeping bodyfat percentage low and only cutting weight as part of the weight class game. If you train hard year round and avoid yo-yo weight gain and loss you will never have to worry about dropping 10 or 20 pounds to look good.

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