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  • Not exactly.
    in move less and eat less Comment by pcastagner February 2014
  • You'd think so, and you'd think having read you say as much ages ago would be enough. Yet, this light bulb just went on recently, around when I started this cut.
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  • Great points. I like the concept of focus. When you focus light with a lens, the surroundings don't go dark. Having focus and having blinders are note the same,
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  • If one of these is your priority, but not the other, you are on the wrong path. They are competing goals. This does not mean you ignore one and just go for the other, but it MIGHT mean you can't do both at once as well as you can shift your focus from one to the other and back again. You see how this works? Just because…
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  • My post is about the psychological journey from ignoring this very oft repeated and common recommendation, to realizing every expert I followed was making it, to actually taking it and being astounded by the results. It's meant to remind anyone else undergoing a similar journey to remember the stuff they've been reading…
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  • It's context independent, but I was hoping to get people asking about the relative merits. Capacity for both endurance and strength adaptations are restricted when running a negative energy balance. You can either wait longer for the same change, or settle for less change. Incidentally, other adaptation responses are…
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  • Or a combination of my poor craftsmanship and people being people, more likely. Although I did hope to bring out the specious arguments, so mission sort of accomplished.
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  • You would be guessing wrong, the truth is that most people are pretty much around your intelligence, and definitely smart enough to count calories. Lots of intelligent people on here choosing to set up a straw man and attack that instead of actually discussing the idea of BACKING OFF YOUR TRAINING WHILE YOU LOSE WEIGHT…
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  • More like postponed, until I'm not limited by iOS. I can never get one over on you, Sara. Which is probably why you always ignore my friend requests.
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  • Then you are just making it up, sorry. Cardio belongs in a good all around fitness program, especially if you are bulking. You aren't getting better conditioning by training every day, which is why professional training regimens are PERIODIC. Yes, I do think many people don't rest enough, because they follow the same…
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  • Clearly focusing on doing one thing at a time, which is called "specificity", is a really good concept to have when you want I create any adaptation. Wish I were as smart a you! Took me forever to realize this.
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  • I was wondering when someone would step in with those. Thanks. iPhone here. Lots if attacks on my delivery. Probably valid. But my message is truth and my profile is public. Sorry for the lack of diary entries later, I've been eating meat, sweet potatoes, and beer mostly, and running pretty steep deficits. I'll log again…
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  • Thanks for stopping by anyway.
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  • No, you are majorly under informed about lifters and what they look like, sorry. You are thinking of bodybuilders, which is a separate discipline that also involves lifting things. And you accused me of over generalizing! To become "overmuscled" for the functions I those muscles, one must train along unnatural parameters.…
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  • If anyone wants to discuss further, please keep in mind it doesn't matter if your program works. They pretty much all work. This is about working BETTER.
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  • Ha! Explains why I'm so happy on RPT. The CNS overload makes me sleep like 10 hours some nights.
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  • Also should be noted the endurance adaptation works better with proper rest as well , and in a calorie deficit also needs more time. Everything is slower on a deficit. Even athletes who eat enough to maintain periodize their training to maximize its effectiveness. As they approach competition readiness rest becomes the…
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  • Well if you are accusing me of setting people up to steer them towards heavy lifting not too often instead of power yoga or running when trying to go from fat to fit... I'm guilty. Yes you can build muscle in a deficit, technically. Practically, from 210 to 157 in less than a year (I'm up to 163 at the same BF now), you…
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  • You see, the thing is, I didn't come up with this. I was looking at a successful plan and realized I have been repeatedly ignoring expert recommendations that REST is one of the most important components of a program. And by rest, I mean rest. As opposed to training, which is "not rest". I just refused to believe. Over A…
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  • I am seeing much more rapid than usual reduction in SKINFOLD THICKNESS. most of us here use "weight" interchageably with "body fat". if this is a problem for you, read up on colloquialisms and see why they are great shorthand ways to communicate. I'm not a total ditz, I track my bodyfat percentage and could care less about…
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  • sorry, if you are talking to me about muscular hypertrophy in the context of weight loss, you need to start over from the beginning. In a deficit we train to improve coordination (strength) and we train to REDUCE muscle atrophy. we do not train while losing weight to "grow muscles bigger". your idea of training seems to…
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  • on your way then. some of us are more interested in getting this right than fighting. If you are happy with your program stick with it. this post is for the ones who are trying to do it better tomorrow than they are doing it today.
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  • that's probably a fair critique ;)
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  • EXACTLY. please speak up more! wish I had known this a year ago.
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  • If you tweak that with a bit of strength training it's pretty freaking optimal, IMO. but no surprise there. endurance and strength adaptations are very costly. trying to lose weight while making those happen is gonna be a great way to cause chronic inflammation as a way to resist, since you are asking your body to do…
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  • you are clearly confused about what a scientific term is vs. describing your emotions. catabolism is a destructive process, BY DEFINITION. any doctor will tell you that weight loss, and ANY MEDICAL INTERVENTION has inherent risks. Generally we try to MINIMIZE those risks, and we only apply interventions when the potential…
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  • the fact that weight loss is a destructive process and has medical risks is well documented, scientific fact. sorry. nowhere here do I say you can't lose weight working out 6 days a week. I'm talking about doing something BETTER.
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  • It's almost like I made the intellectual leap of assuming you were contradicting what I said. I guess I'm just crazy like that.
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  • you see, there are a bunch of other people that often join a discussion, and the OP becomes less relevant. crazy!
    in How to lose weight according to my Naturopathic Dr. Comment by pcastagner February 2014
  • Do you have any actual evidence that you need 6 days a week to prevent muscle loss, that working out less would not preserve even more muscle, or anything else positive to contribute to the discussion? All I see is "neat, but I'm too stubborn to even consider I could be doing this better". SCIENCE tells us that activating…
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