Is it possible/healthy to lose 2.50 lbs a week by

[Epic Days]

First off OP, this is the wrong model. You can loose two pounds a week easily. but not that way. Sure, at first it will work but you will spring back.
Too much cardio will wreck you. In fact it’s the worst part of your plan.

Read “The primal Blueprint”. Then read Primal Endurance if you are interested in endurance feats.

Too many workouts a week is the worst thing possible. It doesn’t work. Too much cardio is the nail in the coffin failure. In two months you will be heavier and fatter than you are now.

 

[Lynx nkaf]

Don’t listen to these sissies. You *CAN* build muscle and lose fat at the same time. You just can’t do it at the rate you desire, esp if you’re older and/or are near your physiological peak in terms of the amount of muscle you have. You can burn fat quickly, but you won’t be able to build muscle unless you’re young. You can only build muscle while burning fat if you have a little bit of excess fat, work REALLY hard in the gym, and burn fat SLOWLY (not fast). And even then, how much muscle you already have, your age, and how close you are to your physiological maximum will also affect this as well.

So, how to do it ‘correctly’? Fasting. Only give yourself a 1-2 hour window each day for you to eat, preferably 3 - 4 hours before you go to bed. Your entire caloric intake for the day should be within that time frame. This is because fasting increases HGH, testosterone, and cortisol. HGH shoots up like 500x the normal amount (or something like that). These hormones begin to rise at the 16-hour mark of not eating, and continue to rise until they peak at the 24-hour mark (to which they then decrease at the same rate that they rose). Most of this increase occurs within the 18-24 hour range though.

You could also try not eating at all for a few days. These hormones will spike up again around the same time, except that they will rise much higher, but for not as long. The exception to this is when you’re asleep though, HGH and testosterone should go up during then.

Another thing: cortisol gets a bad rep for being the ‘stress’ hormone with a lot of articles saying that cortisol increases fat storing. But the thing is, that’s only true when insulin is present. If cortisol levels are elevated when insulin is not present, then cortisol will actually increase lypolysis (fat burning) instead.

Furthermore, when fasting, adiponectin levels rise. Adiponectin is a hormone that also increases fat burning.

And no, you don’t have to worry about losing muscle. The test and HGH increase is to prevent that. You preserve ~4x as much muscle when fasting as when you just do a regular cutting diet.

If you’re gonna take a supplement, omega-3s and L-Carnitine are good. Omega-3s increase anabolic activity, and carnitine is basically a fat transporter (makes it easier for your body to actually burn the fat).


You’re welcome.

thank you Sir

 

[ImTheDoubleGreatest!]

thank you Sir

This is for men lynx, idk about how itnis with women.

 

[Lookatu]

For guys, never get so fixated on weight. As we all know muscle weighs more than fat. Look at and observe how you look instead and how you fit into your clothes. Weight training works wonders for guys and will burn more fat/calories when you are stationary as well. With cardio machines, you only burn the calories when you're actually doing it, plus if you over do it, you WILL raise your cortisol levels which will bring down your testosterone levels. You ever wonder why you only see good looking YOUNGER males on the treadmill? Have you seen any older guys on the treadmill slaving away? I'm not saying cardio is bad at all but just don't over do it where your cortisol levels are spiking and thus defeating the purpose of being a man(low t). Generally series of short sprints are better the older you get than long distance running. It definitely preserves your joints too.

 

[cola]

It may be tough to now with the virus and all but I would go to gym lift and then play 2-3 games of full court basketball(gym has to have court obviously) ..

I’d do this 3-4 nights a week, and then lift like 1-2 days without playing ball and body fat just would fall off. You don’t even have to be good, if you can hustle and get a rebound and get back on defense people won’t mind playing with you.

 

[Lookatu]

For guys, never get so fixated on weight. As we all know muscle weighs more than fat. Look at and observe how you look instead and how you fit into your clothes. Weight training works wonders for guys and will burn more fat/calories when you are stationary as well. With cardio machines, you only burn the calories when you're actually doing it, plus if you over do it, you WILL raise your cortisol levels which will bring down your testosterone levels. You ever wonder why you only see good looking YOUNGER males on the treadmill? Have you seen any older guys on the treadmill slaving away? I'm not saying cardio is bad at all but just don't over do it where your cortisol levels are spiking and thus defeating the purpose of being a man(low t). Generally series of short sprints are better the older you get than long distance running. It definitely preserves your joints too.