Keys to be cut and lean?

nsirrra25
nsirrra25 Posts: 9 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/drwilley3.htm how accurate is this article? Should I follow it? Suggestions or thoughts?

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  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
    I have an issue with them telling you to measure your bodyfat. The ways to measure it are mostly inaccurate and the one that is pretty good (a Dexa scan) costs too much to do it as often as they tell you. Adjusting your calories to something that inaccurate is a bit asinine.
  • nosebag1212
    nosebag1212 Posts: 621 Member
    Not a fan, calculating your BMR purely off lean mass is dumb, especially for obese people
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    I thought you were bulking?

    I don't agree with needing to adjust calories weekly especially if you aren't already lean.
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    Eh not sure I want to read the whole thing but just evaluating the bullet points:

    "MEASURE YOUR BODY COMPOSITION FOR A STARTING POINT. PLAN ON FOLLOWING YOUR BODY COMPOSITION AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK. AS YOU MEASURE, YOU CAN PROPERLY ADJUST CALORIES TO SPARE THE LEAN MASS AND ELIMINATE THE FAT!"

    Sure, measure often and make sure you are eating an amount that will cause weight loss to lose fat but not so much that you lose lean mass as well. I don't think bodyfat measurements are accurate enough that you should literally adjust your calories on the basis of them on a weekly basis but the general idea is sound.

    "DETERMINE YOUR CALORIC AMOUNTS PER DAY BASED ON YOUR LEAN MASS AND AMOUNT OF EXERCISE YOU ARE DOING"

    I'd say it makes more sense to determine your caloric amount per day based on your total mass and the amount of exercise you are doing but yeah, it is important to determine what you would maintain on so you know what to make a deficit from.

    "UTILIZE A HIGH PROTEIN DIET - PROTEIN BURNS MORE CALORIES AND INCREASES SATIETY (THE FEELING OF FULLNESS)"

    and we've struck *kitten*. Protein "Burns more calories" doesn't make sense to me at all. Does it increase satiety? Yeah for a lot of people it does, but not necessarily for everyone so it shouldn't be stated so broadly.

    " ADJUST YOUR CALORIES AT LEAST WEEKLY ACCORDING TO YOUR BODY COMPOSITION CHANGES AND HOW YOU LOOK. INCREASE CARDIO IF YOU WISH TO EAT MORE OR GET LEAN A LITTLE QUICKER"

    Um no...don't change your diet every week on the basis of a likely inaccurate measurement. Pick something and stick to it consistantly, if you are constantly adjusting and changing its just going to be impossible to determine what is working and what isn't. Increasing cardio to burn more calories to either eat more or lose fat faster I suppose is fine although again you don't want to overdo it, small deficit is better if you are trying to go from lean to cut.

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