Resistance training is the ‘secret’ to maintaining muscle mass while dieting.
I guess technically it’s not really a secret since this has been shown in dozens of published clinical trials using many different protocols…
But ‘secret’ just sounds cool.
Anyways, something you should know about this little fact:
Your ability to maintain your skeletal muscle mass is likely a direct relation to it’s use.
In other words: If you only trained your right arm, this will most likely NOT prevent muscle loss from occurring in your left arm.
As an example:
If your right arm is in a cast it will atrophy (shrink) while the rest of your body stays the same…Regardless of nutritional intake.
This would apply regardless of whether or not you are fasting.
Bottom line: If you are following Eat Stop Eat properly, then you are fasting AND resistance training, and this resistance training should include all the muscles of your body…not every day, but as a general average.
BP
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I wonder if your ever going to run out of ideas as to how to say the same thing over and over again.
This is the only theory that i don’t believe, sorry Brad, i have been weightlifting for a very long time, since i was 13 years old, i am now 38, each time i dieted down and lost between 20-30 pounds i lost a lot of size and yes muscles.
I did it the 6 meals per day way and i did it eating a lot less way, yet i continued lifting weights on many different program.
Since starting ESE about a month ago, i lost a good 15 pounds, lots of it came from my gut which i am very happy, but my arms went from 17 inches to 16 inches, i have also lost some chest size and leg size.
I recently changed my training program and doing a bit more traditional weight lifting splitting the body like this, push day like chest, shoulders and triceps, back and biceps, and legs.
Bench press, incline press, standing dp press, bent rows and more are all part of my routine now and i am lifting heavy on most lifts, but keeping good forms.
As you get smaller your body will lose muscles but like you said being 220 pounds is still 220 pounds, and at my age i would rather be at 190 pounds and work with that weight then feel awful at 220 pounds.
Yannick,
How did you measure your muscle mass?
What were your starting and ending weights and what was your height?
B
Nope,
Not as long as people want to hear the same thing over and over again. And, not as long as it’s new to someone.
When I worked in the supplement industry we treated every ad as the first ad anyone ever saw.
For every person who’s been to this blog 100 times, there are people who are visiting for the very first time.
If we only needed to say eat less once, there would be no on-line weight loss industry.
B
PS- Yannick no offense is ever taken, so you don’t need to apologize.
After all, these aren’t my opinions, I’m just the messenger.
B
Funny, true but still entertaining and free. Still ESE is a great system and i do feel people should know about it as much as possible.
Brad i have measured my arms with a tape, and looked in the mirror.
Back in 2008 i had a cellular test and my BF was at 22%, i want to get back to 190 pounds and get that test again, my sport doctor as this machine.
brad i would just tell you that after being on the burn workout of the adonis workout and skipping cardio my arms and shoulders look bigger according to my wife . during this 5 weeks i have done some plunge into strongman training and i did the yoke with close t 600 pounds on my back and farmers with 250 in each hand so i beg to disagree with other posters here keep up the good work both you and jb.
cheers branko
I wonder how much resistance training is necessary to preserve muscle mass while dieting? Hitting each muscle group once per week, twice per week, etc.?
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am i the only one that doesnt want to retain muscle mass!!!! i need to flatten out and just be sliiiiiiim
So Brad, what is the minimum amount of layoff you can afford before atrophy starts to set in? One week, two weeks, a month? Any ideas?
seems to be about 10-14 days of Complete non-use (think having your leg in a cast)
B
So in terms of just “not working out”, i.e. minimal normal every day use, I’d guess that 10-14 days gets expanded to more like a month or longer?