For Fat Loss, Push Big Weights by Christian Thibaudeau Maintaining or even gaining strength is the absolute best way to make sure that youre not losing muscle mass. If you keep pushing big weights, itll force the body to keep its muscle since it will see it as necessary for survival. If you reduce the amount of weight youre lifting, the body will assume that you dont require as much strength and that its okay to lower your muscle mass. Why? Because muscle uses a ton of calories every day and the body will see it as expendable. Then there is the second part of the mistake: increasing reps. Often times this is done to cut up a muscle. Too bad thats impossible to do. You cannot get a muscle more cut. You can only make it bigger or smaller. To get more cut you need to get rid of the fat while keeping the muscle large and full. Some people arent stupid enough to think that lifting lighter weights for more reps works, but they still perform higher reps simply to burn more calories and accelerate fat loss. Thats fine, provided that you did your heavy lifting already. However, if you overdo the reps, you can indirectly decrease your muscle mass by impairing recovery. When your caloric intake is reduced, your capacity to recover from training is already handicapped, so adding the burden of increased volume can lead to regression in both performance and muscle size. The moral of the story? You should do everything in your power to at least maintain your strength when dieting down, and this will not happen if you stop lifting heavy to focus on doing more pump work.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 18:58:53 +0000
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