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What's the Most important Aspects for Your Weightloss?

In the beginning, it's important to have the right perspective about how fast you can expect to lose fat while losing little to no muscle, or even gaining muscle. This can serve to help you set realistic goals.

Who loses fat the fastest? Let's start with who loses it the slowest & work our way up to those folks who have spectacular before-after pics in really short time periods :D

1. Highly conditioned recreational or competitive athletes with low bodyfat & years of consistent training experience & sound nutritional habits. These folks can expect to lose 1% bodyfat (or 1 percent bodyweight) per month, any more is just gravy.

2. Never-before-fit folks who as adults have finally decided to get in shape after acquiring a sizable amount of spare luggage. These folks don't have any physiologic memory or pre-existing infrastructure to snap back to, but can still make slightly faster progress than those in category 1. A good benchmark of BF% or weight loss for this group is 2% a month.

3. Formerly-fit/athletic subjects who let themselves go for an extended period (a couple of sedentary years, or in some cases full decades), This is the group who makes deceptively quick progress in BF% loss &/or weight loss, to the tune of 3-4% per month, sometimes even more.
 
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Thank God I fell into group three. The last few weeks of college were filled with cramming for exams (all good grades = grad. school = $). I got the grades (3.675) but lost a lot of focus on weights and conditioning. And to tell you the truth, I really felt guilty... for a time.

Next thing I knew, I was ordering pizza every night after I came back to my room, wasted and gaining fat at an alarming rate. Roughly three weeks of just doing that every night. Then I got comfortable not going to the gym and really didn't care.

That was one of the worst dicisions I've ever made. Since I started my job at NYC, I've been running a ton more, dieting properly (no spinach right now though... damn E. Coli is messing up my world), and have truly lost a significant portion of weight, both fat and muscle. But now, I am back in the gym feeling like a virgin lifter. Man the soreness is killing me! But I love it :twisted:

I wonder at what point the line is crossed from "getting back into it" and " highly conditioned." Going from 4% loss to 1% has got to be a plateau that kicks your ass mentally. Good info, Aragon.

Next time, I'll give you guys my WHOLE life story, okay?

HL
 
I def fall into group three, Highschool during 2nd year of football and basketball training I was probably close to 7-9% bf, cut like a mother and fast as hell, free safety. After 6 years of abuse of crappy food and other during the last 2 years of highschool and 4 years of college I have a lot of work to catch up on, so far i'm happy with my process, and I understand that with a somewhat calorie deficient good clean diet and some good cardio and weight training it's only a matter of time till I hit my goals of 9% bf before my first lean bulk, maybe 4k a day clean intake and heavy weights.

I need to up date the list again, i'm busy for a little while with some interviews, but the list will become golden, I promise.

Def agree with the planning part as it's hard to eat right on the whim everytime and balanced.
 
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