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Losing fat, gaining muscle and strength, looking good, being healthy… whatever it is you want to be successful in, it must start with metabolism! You can’t focus on anything else without having a strong metabolism in place. Muscle cannot be gained! Weight loss will include too much muscle loss! Even burning too many calories (a drastic change in calories out –vs- calories in) will burn up your muscles without a good metabolism!
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Metabolism 101 as taught by Coach Rick will start with muscle! Every pound of muscle burns between 35-50 calories per day by just existing, NOT EXERCISING, just sedentary caloric needs. Play with the math a bit…If you ladies had 71 lbs of lean muscle, you’re burning 2,500 calories/day by just being alive! This is called your Resting Metabolic Rate or RMR. We have to make sure that RMR number stays high! With the average RMR coming in around 60-75% of total calories burned, this should priority #1. Several mini-meals throughout the day and strength training are your key to maintaining or increasing that precious RMR. Maintaining or increasing your RMR means at (least keeping) the muscle you already have and better yet, gain some new muscle and actually raising your RMR!
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Going quickly to my Metabolism 201, we learn about how it’s all lost! Sedentary adults are losing an average of ½ pound of muscle per year. That’s five pounds per decade. That’s not including the “yo-yo” dieting (starve & binge) that probably claims even more muscle than aging. Missing meals is possibly your metabolism’s public enemy number one!
Metabolisms and muscles are lost very quietly. By the time you actually gained 5 pounds on the scale, you could have lost ten pounds of muscle and gained 15 pounds of fat! Your bathroom scale is not a health indicator! It plays only a tiny role fitness! Tiny!
Success secret #1 is keep your highest focus on a high metabolism!
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