Reducing Bodyfat

Finally, an easy to understand method to shed that last 5% of body-fat!

To reduce body-fat, you need to understand how the body works. 

Your body doesn't know what you do for a living or recreation, all it does is react to it.

You don't cut your hair, it grows, you don't cut your nails, they grow, you eat, your body uses that as fuel, you drink, your body uses that for hydration. 

To the body, all activity is recognized as stress or resistance. 

Your body uses food energy to support the stress or resistance you place on it.

Now there are 4 things that makes up body weight.

Water: This is essential and your body, at almost 70% water, is unchangeable.

Muscle: Also essential; it is all over the body. It lets you look up to the screen to read this, itch your head while thinking about this and look up the ceiling thinking “this all makes sense to me”!! Your muscles allow to push, pull, lift, move and work.

Bone: The support-structure for the body; however, without muscles wrapped around them, they would just collapse. (Now you know why the body needs muscle - as does your body!)

Fat: The energy supply. The body can store an unlimited amount of fat. It's not necessarily a bad thing; picture it as a "rainy-day energy fund". Your body holds it in case of a famine or some unforeseen circumstance where food is scarce. 

Since fat is a source of energy, it cannot be destroyed; it can only be converted.... so your body needs to spend all that saved energy.

Now you need to know about food.

To the body, all food is recognized as energy (fuel):

Certain sources of food offer more energy and others give less energy but has more nutrient value. Excess food intake will always be converted in to fat - and stored.

So to lose fat the only thing you have to do is create a caloric deficit, right? But there is something specific you need to know:

When you lower your body’s intake say from a high salary (so to speak) of 2500 calorie to 1200 calorie the body thinks, "hey I'm getting less energy now, I need to survive". So your body makes a decision based on the demand you place on it.

So here you are, creating a caloric deficit; then you add extra work to the body - in the form of cardio to burn those energy stores. Then you start losing weight, but you also start becoming thin - and you still have that thick layer of fat on your belly... 

You see, cardio is a great way to spend excess energy, but when your body gets down to a certain body-fat level, it will retain it's energy savings because you are using them most; and since you are not really using your muscles, your body has no reason to maintain them, so, you lose them. 

This is how you end  up looking thin, but fat at the same time.

In order to prevent muscle loss, you need to create a demand for them. This will also create a demand for your body to use up those energy stores!  

For normal routine jobs like lifting your coffee mug or using to legs to walk or your arms to move things - your muscles do not require much to function at this lower energy state. As you constantly increase the amount of resistance or stress on your muscles, your body knows you require them so they will develop themselves.

As you place an even greater need (stress/resistance) on the body to require them (your muscles), your body will recognize the demand for them and use your energy-stores to maintain them!! This is where you need to be in order to lose body-fat and have muscular definition!!!

So with your body in a constant state of stress/resistance - combined with a caloric deficit, you will use-up your fat reserves because your body has a reason to spend all that excess energy. 

Voila, now that you know this, Go Lift - but as you do, lift heavy and slow, and breathe at the point of most resistance. 

I promise you - you will see mind-blowing results in a short period of time.

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