How To Make Losing Body Fat Effective And Measurable
Losing body fat is more difficult and trickier than losing body weight in general
. So let me briefly define the difference between the two in order to have an understanding of both.
Losing body weight indiscriminately and that includes mainly body fluids like water, a percentage of muscle tissue, and adipose tissue (body fat).
On the other hand, losing body fat is where you target losing body fat as much as possible and minimizing, keeping, or even increasing your muscle tissue during your fitness regimen goal.
So in other words, you want to keep body fat to the muscle ratio something like 3:1 per pound. When you lose 3 pounds of body fat you only lose 1 pound of muscle and no more.
And here is where many women start losing one battle after another by randomly going towards their goal of losing body fat, and then end up failing by losing too much muscle tissue and some body fat or losing body fat and muscle tissue equally which is still not a good idea.
You see, one of the indirect benefits of maintaining or even better is increasing your muscle tissue is to keep your metabolic rate more efficient by burning calories even when you are sitting on your bottom and watching Paulas home cooking on The Food Channel!
Body fat on the other hand does nothing in terms of raising your metabolic rate and it just sits there.
I am going to lay out some effective strategies, and you should include them in your fitness tools to assist you in targeting body fat loss primarily. Here we go
Maximizing Losing Body Fat for Women
-After a few weeks of running you need to add resistance training.
-Keep the ratio of your aerobic and resistance training 2:1 so in other words if you run or jog for 30 minutes then you should perform at least 15 minutes of quality resistance training.
-Minimize your carbohydrates intake and particularly at night.
-Increase your protein intake slightly over your carbohydrates and fat.
-Perform high intensity interval training once a week on top of the above recommended training that you are already doing.
I do hope that you follow these effective strategies and observe your results so you can modify and be successful in order to reach the body composition in terms of losing body fat to the desirable amount.