Is getting to 6-7% body fat just a matter of less calories in and more calories out , with a 50 – 50 ratio of carb to protein and a weight training , cardio mix of 50 – 50 ?
Yes and no.
Yes, the Law of Thermodynamics tells us that it HAS to come down to calories in versus calories out – but that’s not as simple as it sounds.
Calories In
The food labels give you an estimate of how many calories of heat are released when you burn a “serving” in a burner in a Chem lab.
That has little to do with how you burn that same food in your body. It tells us nothing about the efficiency of your digestive system.
It tells us nothing about your endocrine system (that is, your hormonal reaction to the food – or, for that matter, the food you ate with it, the food you ate 2 hours ago, etc.)
Calories Out
First of all, you need to realize that in order to measure the calories out you’d have to collect, weigh and take the temperature of your urine and feces.
No, thanks!
And the calorie readings you see on treadmills and other related devices are just guesses that may be appropriate if you fall in the middle of the bell curve.
Unfortunately, there’s no simple way to find out where you lie on the bell curve.
Diet
As you can tell from all the diets out there, there’s no simple, magic formula, although empirical evidence from top bodybuilders indicate a high protein diet may be beneficial.
(Of course, there are millions of lean people all over the world subsisting on high carb regimens.)
Weights/Cardio Mix
Again, the empirical evidence indicates your focus should be on weight training.
I’m a firm believer that cardio – especially the low, slow, boring variety – is greatly overrated when it comes to giving you the lean and strong look you’re after.
Save the LSD workouts for once every other week. Your fat loss program should focus on weights and interval training.
For more on fat burning, you should get Afterburn from one of my co-authors, Alwyn Cosgrove, and Turbulence Training, from another one of my co-authors, Craig Ballantyne.
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