7 Reasons Your Fat Loss Diet Isn’t Working

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As the summer approaches, the hottest topic on the lips of every physique-conscious individual is, without a doubt, fat loss.

Dieting down for the summer months is humdrum for those who wish to reveal their six-pack abs and look great in their bathing suit.  Just the other day as I was training, I overheard some chatter amongst a few of my peers about their fat loss efforts, their routines and how “slow” their fat loss attempts were going.  As a result of my nosy eavesdropping I inferred as to why they were failing miserably.

After their conversation was over, here are a few ideas I would have liked to run by them.

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Build Muscle and Lose Fat: The Recomp Effect Part II

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Build muscle, lose fat, add 13 inches to your vertical jump, run a 4.25 forty, find the love of your life and learn how to get paid for waking up.  If you do everything in this article, all of these things and more will happen to you overnight.

Okay, I kid, but as I alluded to in Part I, today I’m going to share with you an approach to setting up a recomp protocol.  Remember, this is best suited for those concerned with remaining lean(er) throughout the year and willing to allow for a bit slower gains than the alternate approaches like GFH (get effing huge), GOMAD (gallon of milk per day) and the standard bodybuilding bulk/cut cycles. [Read more...]

Build Muscle and Lose Fat: The Recomp Effect Part I

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After many emails, and a few phone calls about this topic, I’ve finally decided to write an article about how to build muscle and lose body fat at the same time.  This is sometimes known as the recomp effect (body recomposition) but most people, other than the fitness-obsessed, have never heard the term.

In short, it means to recompose your body; you’re improving your percentage of lean body mass whilst reducing your fat mass.

If you’re new here and tired of reading the same old crap, only to be disappointed by getting to the end of an article to see a useless product being pimped to the max, please keep reading because that won’t happen here. [Read more...]

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