Tips and tricks to getting lean

To get lean, people tend to think they have to cut everything they enjoy eating and do cardio religiously. When in reality, cardio should be used as a tool rather than just running everyday or every other day. Getting lean starts with diet, must be in a caloric deficit to lose weight/body fat. So start in a very slight deficit, 150-200 calories. Why? Because this gives you the opportunity to drop calories even more if the results aren’t what you want. If you start to low, you will only suffer, most likely sacrifice the muscle mass you already have, and it’s just not sustainable. So when weight loss stalls, do to your metabolism catching up to your diet. This is when you can incorporate cardio to burn more calories rather than lower calories again. Or you can do both, completely up to you. For me, I like to eat so I use cardio when weight loss stalls. And make sure you weigh everything you consume for at least two weeks, so you have a firm understanding of how many calories you’re really getting in per day. Then after that, you have a good idea of what your portion sizes look like, and you’ll have some type of routine of eating. So now, you won’t need the food scale so it won’t be as tedious or time consuming. Good luck y’all, let’s get shredded for Summer 💪