It is impossible to turn muscle into fat, they are two totally different things. Muscle is Micro Damaged "Micro Tears" during training, and you regenerate and build New Muscle. All training is.. Is a Damaging Proccess.....!
Change your diet. Eat more complex carbs. Look at your calorie intake and what TYPE of calories you are consuming. Lifting heavy weights with excellent form is better for loosing weight as your metabolism increases as well as your resting heart rate. People **** on weight lifting but the facts remain is great for weight loss and lean muscle gains.
Thanks, ill give it a shot. I didnt think complex carbs were good for losing weight?? Ive been told to eat things like pasta, bread and potatoes sparingly and reduce them later in the day. I don't know what to believe anymore. Maybe i shoiuld go on the jimmy page smack and strawberry milkshake diet!
Pasta is so so. Theres better complex carbs to consume than that. Whole meal bread is fine. White bread no no. Potatoes are great. You can eat less carbs and this will help you to loose weight. But its false economy as carbs are needed for energy/glycogen stores. Loose fat not muscle or dehydrating. Thats a very bad practice. Find out what your BF is. That will give you an indication as to your conditioning.
To be a better overall athlete you need to have a little bit of everything, doing lots of cardio will help and lifting weights too. I also found that adding body weight workouts is pretty good too(push ups abs etc...). As for what to eat, eat lots of proteins and cut on the carbs and the fat the best things to eat are chicken, extra lean grounded beef, tuna, salmon, egg whites and pretty much every kind of sea fruits. As for the carbs the best things are whole wheat rice and bread. Eat 5-6 times a day, with aproximately 2 hours and a half and 3 hours between each meal. Also, if you can buy dextrose somewhere, take about 50 grams of it right after your workout (any beverage with dextrose might do too like gatorade) and take a protein shake around 15 minutes after, the quick absorption of sugar raise your insulin level and put your body in an anabolic mode (basicly your body will use the proteins you ingest later to build lean muscle mass). BTW those advices are to cut off the fat while retaining a maximum of muscle mass (retaining all of it is impossible).
Not what I meant, protein isn't a source of energy(even though it can be but it's not desirable), carbs and fat are. But the goal here is to lower the intake of carbs and fat so that the body will use it's glycogen and lipids reserve.
Your body can break anything down into Glucose for energy. But protien, should be used for growth and repair. That's it's job..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
