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Question: How Can I Achieve 6-8% Body Fat While Gaining Weight?
I'm 179lb, 5'8" and My goal is to achieve a 6-8% body fat, as well as to maintain or exceed my present weight. I was thinking of taking Nortesten and or Anotesten, but I'm not interested in getting pimples on my back and/or testicle shrinkage. I'm hoping that there is another alternative other than steroids (which is not an option). Please show me the path that I must take Sinsa(sp). :-)
Question expanded by another reader.
What is the best product to use to burn fat and keep muscle mass.
Answer #1
The best way to increase body weight while remaining relatively lean in my opinion is to protein load. Taking high amounts of protein (400-500g/day) will force the body to store it as muscle if on a intense weight training program. Keep carbs to minimum, i.e. before and after training, and take your foods from simple sources - rice, potato, oats, banana, chicken, turkey, fish, egg whites, whey protein + about 5 litres of water.
SUMMARY:
--500g protein
--100-200g carbs
--30g fat (olive Oil)
Try this for 3 weeks - I bet you look better
The man from England
Answer #2
I just hope you don't have kidney failure when taking all that protein.
Answer #3
Are you like a multi-millionaire or something?!? How does one afford 400-500g protein/day?!?!? Doing 200g is a task in itself.
Answer #4
High protein, low carb is a good result. You only need approximately 1g of protein per 1lb. of body weight. Too much protein will tax your kidneys and excretion system. You will only waste all that protein (and money) through your excretions. The body will only absorb but so much. Weight train before your aerobic exercise because it will enable your metabolism to stay higher and last longer.
Answer #5
Try to restrict the major portion of your carb intake to before your workouts. The reason for this is directly related to your hormones. When you exercise, the calories you burn during are not what cut you lean (think of it this way: when you run 2 miles you MAYBE burn off the bagel you ate in the morning--obviously this is not how people trim up whether they realize it or not). It's the state you put your hormones into during your workout and (more importantly) thereafter which counts. After an intense workout, your testosterone levels have been spiked (natural highly anabolic, fat burning, muscle repairing stage of your hormones).
Now, the object is to keep them this way. Solution: keep eating. The hard part: keep carbs (and alcohol--ouch!) on the extreme down low. Why: because carbs do nothing but drop-kick your testosterone level, all while spiking the unwanted insulin level (fat-storing hormone). Therefore, you want to consume plenty of protein AND FAT. Messed up, huh? Well guess what? Fat is extremely beneficial for three reasons: A) each gram releases over double the calories when burned as do carbs and protein (9:4:4 ratio, respectively), B) Fat has been proven to promote your secretion of testosterone (gotta keep that trend going), and C) Fat provides almost instant satiety (that "OK, I'm full" feeling) when ingested.
Here we go--in a nutshell...
Eat carbs in the morning for that quick jump start to your day. Also, NEVER eat a lot of ANYTHING after consuming a good amount of carbs (40g+)--it'll all be stored as body fat.
Eat something light and testosterone-boosting prior to a workout. Like the "man from England" suggested, try ingesting a lot of olive oil (A+++). **Recipe for energy**: 3 tbsp. olive oil, 20g of powdered protein, tsp. of real whipped cream, enough milk to fill the rest of the container, add a strawberry and blend.
Work out INTENSELY for at most an hour. This will spike your testosterone levels best, but make sure you don't go for longer because you will be breaking down your muscles more than building them and your testosterone level will collapse.
After your workout, eat as many small "meals" as possible. Key: never be hungry, never be full. Consistent eating maintains a high metabolic rate (these meals will not contain any more than 15g of carbs each--not even one slice of bread). If you can follow this, awesome, but don't feel bad if this is the only rule you bend.
At least one hour before bed, end with a piece of fatty cheese or something else that will make you satisfied and stop eating.
Almost forgot this one: drink a lot of water ALL DAY LONG. It is proven that water helps break away fat stores and flush it out of your system. Enough said.
Try THIS ONE out for three weeks and get back to me. I really am curious how others will respond to this schedule.
DAVE L.
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