Brad, any ideas of longer term fasting on muscle loss? A week? 2 weeks or more of fasting (assuming strength training of course)? I get questions like this probably once a day between my personal facebook page, the Adonis Lifestyle fan page and the Venus Index Fan page. So hopefully this post will serve as my 'definitive' answer to questions about losing muscle while … [Read more...] about Losing Muscle while Dieting
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Losing Muscle While Dieting
You will Lose Muscle. You will gain all the fat back when you stop dieting. I find it interesting that so many people use these two 'arguments' as the basis of their anti-diet crusade. Granted they are scary statements, but If we look closely at these statements something odd becomes apparent... Firstly, the fact that you will gain back the fat when you go back to how you … [Read more...] about Losing Muscle While Dieting
Keeping Muscle Mass
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 … [Read more...] about Keeping Muscle Mass