How can you lose body fat without losing your muscles?

Answer 1

These are the techniques to maintain your strength while losing weight and burning calories:

• Boost it. Frequent physical activity aids in fat loss
• Increase your protein intake. Increased metabolism, less hunger, and improved lean muscle retention are all benefits of a high-protein diet
• Take things slowly

Answer 2

Diet: don't starve yourself, you're body will go into self preserve mode by slowing down it's metabolism. Eat a diet higher in protein and low in carbs.Fruits/veges are a big plus don't limit their intake.Fish, chicken, and red meat are great for protein try to stay away from protein shakes they can provide way too much.Yogurt once a day in the morning can help with belly fat while providing vitamins and it helps the digestive tract as well.Water is a must. Drink more water than usuall, keep it under 10-12 glasses a day you can over do it and keep in mind it will affect your daily weight just remember that it's just water weight. It will help in flushing toxins, assist in digestion and provides needed mineralsExercise daily with cardio and weight training.By doing cardio in the morning it will increase your metabolism throughout the day. Doing it late at night can make it harder to get the proper amount of sleep. Sleep is important that's when your body repairs the torn muscle which occured in weight lifting increasing it's mass.Muscle uses glucose, more muscle equals more energy expendature. Fat is basically stored energyFind a knowledgible workout trainer for a personalized workout.It will take some time, if you can make just one change your on your way. A change in lifestyle will sculpture. Not a weeks worth of change.Best of luck.

Answer 3

Your question is a common one. Your question isn't really so much about specific exercises so much as is it is about nutrition...so that's what I will address.

Here's the basics:

When you want to build muscle you have to go into a bulking phase. You will have to up your caloric intake to somewhere around 15-20% above what is needed to maintain your body's current weight. You can expect to put on a little body fat during this time. However, you can minimize this by including 1 or 2 high intensity, low duration (10-20min) cardio sessions during your week. When you are done with your bulking phase (when you have gained the extra muscle you want) you will then reduce your caloric intake back down to normal and the fat will melt off easily with a little cardio.

I recommend you watch my video on YouTube where I answer this question in great detail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KULXWl-2POM

Good Luck!

Answer 4

I have been doing P90X and it is a great workout/diet plan. I am not telling you that you need to do P90X, but it is a good example of what you need to do/eat. Eat foods that are high in protein and low in fat such as chicken, fish, cottage cheese, tuna, lean meats. You want to stay where you are with your calorie intake just eat better. Make sure that you workout 5-6 times per week. Switch things up to confuse your muscles because they will get used to what you do regularily.

Answer 5

Answer: Eat less and exercise more. The body is set up to reclaim energy from muscle before it gets into the energy in fat, unless it needs the muscle. You have to exercise to keep up the muscle mass while gnawing away at the fat stores

It is rather strange that many people want to achieve weight weight losses at rates that can only be realized by having a Bengal tiger eat your legs for supper! Most medically based sources (not diet companies) indicate an acceptable rate of below a kg/wk. The highest rate found was 1% of initial body weight/week.

The big secret is to not kill yourself on the route to health - your body is set up to handle the you that you are now - a lighter you will have less needs and demands and will have to shed a lot of nasties presently contained in your body fat on route to a lower weight.

A lesser secret is to make changes that you can live with over time, learning the correct way of eating comes with time until you do it as a natural thing. Most sources indicate that the "throw yourself over a cliff" type of dieting gets your weight down quick, but you bounce back up just as quick - sometimes with the collateral damage of gall stones etc.

Answer 6

you lose weight and build muscle fast is eating your fruits and runner

Answer 7

When your losing weight also work out with weights, start out with light weight then build up. In addition, do cardio exercise to lose fat.

Answer 8

Exercise but don't over do it. Eat alot of healthy foods. Do weights during the day and before you got to bed:)

Answer 9

You burn fat before you burn muscle tissue

Answer 10

there is no way