The Weight Loss Thread

Idle... You're awesome, bro. The process you described of "going for the reset button, into a scrawny weakling; then building back up." is called "cutting". A lot of people do that method. Some think it's a waste ["cutting"] and do both muscle training and cardio, with cardio as a warm up often times. They want to see 'growth' first then worry about 'definition', but both work. I'm doing the prior (same as you). Keep at it, dude.
 
Cutting refers to fat loss only.That's why people bulk and then cut to reveal the muscle definition... it would make no sense if they gained size and then lost it on a cut.

Don't do it Idle. I don't think that becoming a weakling with no muscle is a good idea since building back up takes 10 times longer than losing fat. You will become either the infamous skinny fat or just a skeleton and hate the way you look.
 
Well Ring, at least my legs will be hella strong, haha.
I think once I get down to about 200; I'm going to re-evaluate my routine. This is working for now.

-Idle

Edit: I had heard interval training was more effective than steady state cardio. Can anyone confirm this? Because I find I get alot more out of my walk/run workouts than my uphill walks. I was thinking about trying it out on the bike, low resistance, then high resistance, ect ect.
 
Well after more reading, some fitness gurus mentioned cardio everyday is fine while others said only "5-6 days a week," allowing either a day or 2 to recharge, and that letting the body adjust would be more beneficial. Some even commented that on resting days, during sleep, the body was burning higher amounts of calories than normal. If that's the case, than I'll have to make an adjustment. I guess 5 days a week at an hour plus's enough...
 
God dang it! Well apparently, what's been mentioned earlier is true. The sooner I start resistance training, the better. Cardio does burn a lot of calories but almost 2/3 of that is muscle tissue and a 1/3 fat. Resistance training prevents the loss of muscle and helps with its development. That way you lose the fat but fill out preventing as, Ring's said, becoming "skinny-fat".

Starting next week I'll have to start. I'll tell y'all how it goes...
 
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