Who better to model than bodybuilders and fitness competitors? No athletes in the world get as lean as quickly as bodybuilders and fitness competitors. The transformations they undergo in 12 weeks prior to competition would boggle your mind! Only ultra-endurance athletes come close in terms of low body fat levels, but endurance athletes like triathaletes and marathoners often get lean at the expense of chewing up all their muscle. Some of them are nothing but skin and bone.
Entries from February 2008
How Do Bodybuilders And Fitness Models Get So Lean?
February 29th, 2008 1 Comment
Tags: bodybuilders · bodybuilding · competition-diet · contest-diet · cycle-diet · figure-competition · figure-model · fitness-competition · fitness-models · how-to-get-ripped · low-body-fat · periodization · single-digit-body-fat
What happens to the fat cells when you burn body fat?
February 25th, 2008 1 Comment
QUESTION: Dear Tom: would you please try to explain in laymen’s terms exactly how fat cells work and what happens when you start to burn body fat. I heard a statement that the fat cell has to get moved into the muscle cell for it to be released or burned. Thought you could explain a [...]
Tags: adipocyte · beta-oxidation · BFFM · Burn The Fat Lose The Spare Tire · burning-fat · fat-burn · fat-burning · fat-cell · fat-cells · fat-loss · fat-oxidation · hormone-sensitive-lipase · lipoprotein-lipase · oxidation · tom-venuto · triaglycerol
How An Entire Year Could Go By With No Fat Loss
February 21st, 2008 No Comments
QUESTION: Dear Tom: I’ve been going to the gym for the past year now, but I have only lost 2 pounds. I eat about 1800 calories a day and I do 3 cardio and 3 weight training sessions a week. I am 5 feet 5 inches and 128 lbs. I would like to be at [...]
Tags: fat loss plateau · fat-loss · how to break a fat loss plataue · how to break a weight loss plateau · lose 10 pounds · lose-fat · lose-weight · losing pounds · weight loss plateau · weight-loss
