In theory that means to lose one pound of stored fat you need to burn off a minimum of 3500 extra calories.

In practice that doesn’t happen…

Losing 10 pounds of weight does not mean you have lost 10 pounds of fat. You might have lost fat, muscle or water, but most likely some combination of the three.

In most diets, especially crash diets, weight loss far exceeds fat loss, the majority being water loss.

Your fitness also becomes a factor…Your fitness level dictates which combination of fat and carbohydrates your body cells will burn for fuel during rest and during exercise.

At rest your body can burn mainly fat, but when exercising the body cannot supply enough oxygen to burn only fat and so it needs to use carbohydrates as well.

The end result is you need to burn a far more than 3500 calories to burn off one pound of fat.

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1. Do not eat poor quality carbohydrates before bed. Poor quality carbohydrates are those that contain sugar or are highly processed. These would include most breakfast cereals, breads, snack foods, candies, and even fruits and juices. Eating these foods immediately prior to bedtime will likely result in increased fat deposit and will prevent your body from maintaining a successful fat-burning mode.
2. Increase your muscle mass! The more lean muscle you have, the more calories your body will burn even at rest. Muscle is extremely active metabolically. Do some resistance training, add some muscle, and crank up that metabolism.
3. Never let yourself get too hungry, or too stuffed. It really is all about moderation. Time your meals so that you eat before you are starving . . . doing this one simple thing will cause you to almost always eat less. When you do eat, stop when your satisfied not when you are so stuffed you cannot even get down another bite.
4. Double up on your cardio training. From time to time it may be beneficial to the fat-burning process for you to split your cardio training into two short sessions rather than one longer one. Studies suggest that people who do 30 minutes of morning cardio and then 30 minutes of evening cardio lose more fat than those doing just one 60 minute session.
5. Eat more high fiber foods. Most of us do not get enough fiber in our daily diets, and that’s just a shame. Fiber not only promotes overall general health, but also can significantly aid in your fat-burning efforts. Leafy greens and salads are ideal sources of fiber.

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Will Brink, a genuine sports nutrition and supplementation expert has authored “Body Building Revealed” the the most complete, comprehensive and easy to understand information published to date on “how to eat to achieve lean muscle gains”. (It has even been described by bodybuilding legend Lee Labrada as a “must read”)…

And Will’s information is quite simply the very best out there in my opinion to help you achieve this – for two simple reasons:

1. It’s all scientifically proven – Will is a leading researcher and consultant.
2. His information is proven in real world results – Will’s clients as a trainer include an impressive list of top name athletes and he has advised SWAT and special operations personnel on how to optimize their performance under extreme stress.

Bodybuilding Revealed is a complete blue print to muscle building success. Comprising 5 major components which are covered in depth and allow you to follow a clear blue print to achieve the lean mass results you are looking for.

The 5 components of the blue-print are:

• Nutrition and Muscle Building Diet
• Supplement Reviews & Advice (Over 50 reviews are included)
• Training – From beginner to Advanced
• Cardio / HIIT
• Motivation and the Mental Edge.

In the Nutrition and Muscle Bulding Diet you’ll discover just about everything you’ll need to know about eating to build lean muscle fast (using Will’s “Anabolic Nutrition” information). It takes you step by step through what would otherwise be the daunting task of putting together your own personal “lean muscle building diet” and you’ll be shown how to do it in the exact same way that professional athletes do.

Supplement Reviews and Advice is a comprehensive guide to supplements. Simply put you’ll learn which work (suprisingly few of them I may add) and which are nothing more than pure hype. It’s valuable information and is without question the most reliable source of independent information on muscle gain supplements available anywhere today.

The remaining three components are a comprehensive guide to body building which will take a beginer to a fairly advanced level withing a fairly short period of time. You will learn the correct ways to motivate yourself and get your muslces growing and how to deal with training related topics such as muscle soreness and training injuries (which can and do happen).

Finally there is access to Will’s members area. Customers have access to a vast number of high quality tools:

Some of these tools include:

• 1 on 1 on access to Will Brink and paid, trained coaches.
• A highly organized and moderated private forum.
• An online Diet Planner which amongst other functionality, allows users to store their diets, create recipes, view their progress, tally macro nutrients, create meals, provide a visual graph of LBM gained and fat lost, and log every single piece of food the eat with real time analysis. In general keep a tight grip on their muscle building diet.
• Exercise Videos: Customers can watch all the exercises from the training section with online videos.
• Nutrition Database, allows customers to find out the protein, fat, carb and other values of over 20,000 foods, these can then be implemented as custom foods into the Diet Planner.
• Gallery, users can upload photos and get feedback from others
• Pre Made Diets and Workout Charts, customers can download dozens of pre made diets in Excel/PDF format, as well as printable workout charts for all the workouts in the e-book (including charts for Charles Poliquin’s section).
• Daily motivation quotes and a weekly bodybuilding video are shown.
• Users can chat in real time with the popular chat box.
• Resources, such as body fat % calculators, 1 rep max calculator are all included.
• Guru Articles, a section with exclusive content from authors such as Will Brink, Tom Venuto, Charles Staley, Milos, John Berardi and others.

If I were to fault Body Building Revealed it would be information overload. There is just so much to take in if you are new to body building. Perhaps not surprising because there is a lot more to body building then lifting weights.

Nutrition for bodybuilding – Knowing what to eat, and when, is just as important as knowing what to lift, and when…

You can learn more about Body Building Revealed here…

While you’re at it, have a look at Wills other Book ‘Fat loss Revealed’ here

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