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6 October 2010
Weight Loss Utopia!
Gain Muscle and Lose Fat? Tom Venuto Explains
Cliff Baker
It does indeed sound like a weight loss utopia. If only you could crack the code of gaining muscle (in all the right places of course) while your body is also diligently burning that fat you don't need and you're ashamed to look at.
Bodybuilder Tom Venuto, author of Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle, though, suspects that this is just another urban legend. While you may be able to one -- like build muscle -- and then the other -- burn fat -- at different times within a given short-term period, your body cannot do both simultaneously.
Why Not?
It's What Venuto Calls the "X Factors"
That's right! These are four core reasons why your system will never be able to do both. Are you ready to hear the argument? Venuto calls them the "X Factors."
X Factor Number 1: Your Personal Training Age
And no this has nothing to do with what your chronological age is and everything to do with the length of time you've been exercising. New to the exercise world? Then you're probably experiencing what Venuto calls "newbie gains." The less trained your body is the easier it is for it to gain muscle.
You'll gain muscle quickly as you start a program. As you use all the tools at your disposal, you'll discover building even a little more muscle can be a thrilling event.
X Factor Number 2: Ever Hear of Muscle Memory?
The second X-Factor is what is called muscle memory. This term is used by a variety of people in lots of different ways, but what Venuto calls muscle memory is the fact that it's just easier to regain the muscle you've already lost than to gain new muscle.
X Factor Number 3: Not Fair! He Was Born That Way!
Genetics is the third X-Factor. Before you let out a sigh, don't be too disappointed. There always seems to be somebody out there who defies the odds -- or has the hardest time to make a go of gaining muscle, losing fat.
We all know of at least one person who can eat all day long and all the wrong foods and still their body gains muscle and sheds fat. What's up with that? Then there's the opposite of that scenario, where just looking and smelling food seems to pack on the fat for some individuals.
X-Factor Number 4: Drugs!
And the fourth X-factor? Sadly, drugs. Yes performance-enhancing and physique-enhancing drugs. And no, Venuto explains, it's not just the stressed out, pressurized professional body builder who thinks that drugs are the short cut to a chiseled and healthy body. Many of your average bodybuilders and those wishing to lose weight also dabble (or more than dabble) in this dangerous approach.
But don't lose heart, Venuto explains. Just because the body must alternate between burning fat and building muscle doesn't mean the two events won't happen just as they should. If you keep a sound exercise program, along with adopting healthy eating habits, your body will know just when to burn fat . . . build muscle . . . and perform every other healthy task in between. Now that's a personal weight loss utopia.
Check out Tom's Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle, fat burning secrets of the world's best bodybuilders and fitness models.
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