I’ve been thinking alot and I’ve got alot of feedback from alot of different people. How many reps should I be doing to burn fat but keep the muscle that I have? Should I do 8-10-12 or 10-12-15 rep sets?
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I would say all of them. It’s good to vary your sets from workout to workout, as well as varying the exercises you do. The key is to keep your muscles from adapting to the same workout over & over.
To keep your muscles & burn BF, eat 5-7 smaller meals/day, instead of 3 large meals. You mebabolize the food more efficiently, and you kick in your digestive system more times per day (digestion itself burns calories). Next, eat clean the majority of the time (I know, almost all of us struggle with this). But this is HUGE. Cutting BF is probably 50-75% dependent on eating clean, and then your workouts.
Oh, and while eating clean, don’t drastically cut your calories (mistake of most "diets"). Somewhere around 500 calories per day deficit is good, so your body doesn’t slow down your metabolism to "starvation mode".
Thanks for the input. Take a look at my work outs and let me know what you think. I try to get between 10 -15 reps per set. I’m still lifting pretty heavy for the amount of reps that I’m doing. I think after 4 weeks of lifting like that then I’ll drop the reps down a little bit. I surprise myself everyday and what I can do.
September 5, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I would say all of them. It’s good to vary your sets from workout to workout, as well as varying the exercises you do. The key is to keep your muscles from adapting to the same workout over & over.
To keep your muscles & burn BF, eat 5-7 smaller meals/day, instead of 3 large meals. You mebabolize the food more efficiently, and you kick in your digestive system more times per day (digestion itself burns calories). Next, eat clean the majority of the time (I know, almost all of us struggle with this). But this is HUGE. Cutting BF is probably 50-75% dependent on eating clean, and then your workouts.
Oh, and while eating clean, don’t drastically cut your calories (mistake of most "diets"). Somewhere around 500 calories per day deficit is good, so your body doesn’t slow down your metabolism to "starvation mode".
Hope this helps,
Al
JUST GETTING TO THE GYM IS A SUCCESSFUL WORKOUT.
September 10, 2008 at 11:31 am
Thanks for the input. Take a look at my work outs and let me know what you think. I try to get between 10 -15 reps per set. I’m still lifting pretty heavy for the amount of reps that I’m doing. I think after 4 weeks of lifting like that then I’ll drop the reps down a little bit. I surprise myself everyday and what I can do.