“An exercise guide to lose Fat without losing muscle”- Delna Pooniwala.
With the new fitness awareness in the new generation and the gym facilities, increasing number of men & women want to look even more attractive and many aim for “Fab Abs” besides their God gifted beautiful looks. The current fitness talk is not about weight but about strength, a tough body that is high on muscle and low in fat percentage.
To achieve this, beside a well planned nutrition regime, a perfect exercise routine requires to be planned to compliment a fat loss program.
What most people do is, increase their cardio activity and cut down on their weight training sessions. This would definitely bring about a weight loss. However, when the focus is to lose fat without losing muscle, I recommend an increase in cardio activity, while maintaining the same weight training regime you have been following.
Some people feel that they would aid fat loss; if they drop their weights and increase reps. which is not true. Use the same basic principles you were using when you were gaining muscle and use the same weights, or else, you may weaken the overall stimulus of the training. Always maintain muscle and strive for progressive overload too, where you stay in your hypertrophy range of 6-8 reps.
The amount of cardio one should be doing depends on an individual’s lifestyle. So plan it out keeping multiple factors in mind.
Weight training should always take preference over cardio to maximise muscle retention. Hence, split your cardio and weight training sessions. However, if you have a constraint of time and you plan doing both in the same session, then cardio should be done post a weight training session.
Hope these little fitness tips help you lose fat while maintaining muscle.
Dear friends, followers & readers, I want you to look forward to reading about “A nutrition guide to lose fat without losing Muscle” tomorrow morning.
