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Before you continue reading, I’d like to make a clear point: If you planning on getting in shape for any sort of events then start considering it at least 2 months before hand. If you follow along and read, I will give you detailed information to why is this true.

I admit its not easy when just starting out. There are many complications including people tend to be lazy and not as motivated when starting off at once but once into it for a couple months and seeing some decent results I guarantee you you will want to keep going further and set new goals.

One of the major reasons people tend to start thinking of losing weight or toning is mainly to have “those abs” but let me tell you something, abs are not what they seem to be. Everyone comes with a 6-packs abs, I will cover the How-Get-Abs in the next article. As for as this article goes I will try to cover the basics of fat losing, weight gain and toning.

There are a couple ways of weight gaining, either weight gaining as FAT including some muscle or gaining Lean Muscle or just Fat, and the process of each takes time. You can simply just go “Okay by the end of this month I will have gained 10lbs of just muscle” because it does not work that way, if it was that easy then everyone in North America would be fit. When you have the idea of gaining weight, the idea that goes through your mind should be set to lean muscle. Although this is not an easy thing to accomplish because mostly everything edible you eat contains some sort of Fat in it, you can still do some good progress due to your diet.Compare to Cutting¹ Bulking² is a easier but does not mean you can go off and just about eat anything. You have to watch what your eating and how much of what you are consuming daily, for example you can be working out really hard and go home and eat all sorts of food that have little to no protein and large amounts of fat.

To gain lean muscle it is best to add some cardio in your fitness, maybe once or twice a week for 30-45mins to get rid of that extra fat built during the week. I actually follow this method for myself but I do cardio about 3 times a week. To gain muscle you have to make sure you get enough Protein your body needs daily, Carbohydrates, enough of fat (Yes I said it, you do need fat to put on size) , Vitamins, WATER and of course the other 8 essential amino acids (Protein molecules) your body cannot produce on its own.. Its always a good thing to have a set diet for yourself to follow so you know what you have to eat and when. And keep in mind to calculate your daily protein intake, take your current weight multiply it by 2, so If I weight 150lbs I would need to consume at least 300protein daily.

Losing fat is not an easy process, to be honest personally I have found it to be the most difficult one when just starting. Most of the readers are probably more focusing in this paragraph of this article rather then the above Gaining-Weight so I’ll try to keep it easy and brief. You cannot remove Fat from specific parts of your body! If you have ever heard people say “I am going to convert all fat in my arms to muscle” then they either mean they are going to lose the fat and put muscle or are stating how stupid they really are. It is a myth, not possible, imagine if you could remove fat from spots of your body; that would make life so easier, but unfortunately you can’t unless you get a surgery. Fat is basically all over, and in order to remove it you must work on your entire body. Also By not Eating at all, Your putting your body to risk! and that risk can be sever diseases depending on the person. This is also true, you cannot say “I am just having this carrot all day so I don’t get fat“….NO, bad bad bad. Let me tell you what happens when you don’t eat. Your body begins to starve the fat, also starving muscle. Therefore you start losing Fat along with Muscle, and when you start to lose muscle your metabolism goes down and your body enters Starvation Mode. Once your in starvation mode, your fat loss begins to stop but your muscle loss increases and you will get more and more hungry until you turn blue and start panicking. There have been many cases of sickness due to this, so be smart and do not follow Lindsey Lohan.

Now that you are aware of what not to do for fat loss, here is the better part. Losing fat is not as hard as you may think of it, it requires a little more attention to your diet then your fitness. I’d say 70% of your progress will be from your diet and about 30% from your work outs, so I guess this draws a picture to our heads, eating healthy does matter. To properly lose weight you must also eat less, consume of the food your eating less then you would probably chow down on it because you would almost never want yourself to be “stuffed” you just don’t want to feel hungry, but not too full. You will also want to have about 5-6 meals a day, that is small meals not major dishes you would in a restaurant.

Two of the top things you should always eat & drink, no matter you are trying lose weight or gain weight or even maintain weight are: Vegetables and Water. Water keeps your heart rate stable, cleans your blood and keeps away sicknesses. Water is found to be very healthy, so please, put away the Pepsi and get a few bottles of Pepsi. According to professionals you must consume 3-4 liters of water a day. I admit some days I drink about 2 liters and don’t reach what I should be, but most of the time I drink probably 5 liters of water, because I like water so much. The next on the list is Vegetables. Second to water vegetable is perhaps the healthiest food you can eat but I could be wrong do not quote me on this. Vegetables have all sorts of nutrients in it and some of the good things it does for you is that it produces cellulose, cellulose in your body is needed to clean up inside the body, remove the extra junk, clean the blood and for blood clothing, destroys viruses and other diseases and finally helps with removing fat. Water and vegetable should also be in your diet.

Toning is similar to losing weight except you need to eat the amount of food between when you would losing weight and gaining weight. Your average clean diet. When working out in order to tone (this also can be referred to fat loss) you should focus more on reps rather then heavy weight. Increase your rep range and lower the weights a bit to be able to do a few sets.

I will in a few days perhaps write an example work out routine as well as an example diet that can be followed and some very healthy food to eat during cutting or bulking.

I probably should put this at the end of the article but I just want to let everyone know that…there is a lot of bullcrap on internet. Such as all those supplements you see, everything is not as what they seem to be, trust me, a lean body meaning using no supplements is easier to maintain rather then actually spending so much money on things that might not even work. Especially those fat loss pills, those are just horribles, those can cause a lot of problems. Some of the known problems are: cannot sleeping, pain during urination, extra stress, body cannot release as much testosterone and dopamine and puts one into depression. Protein Shakes on the other hand are very healthy and necessary. There are a lot of people that believe protein shakes are just a myth and simply milk that goes through you really fast, but let me ask you this. Protein shakes are a by product of Milk so why would it be a waste? Most protein shake come with loads of iron, calcium and other nutrients such as the 8 essential amino acids I mentioned earlier. Protein shakes before working out or after working out are really the greatest time to use them, along with some vegetables . If you need any information on which protein shakes to buy, do not bother wasting your money on those canned protein shakes in superstore or wall-mart, go for the powder ones such as a brand name Whey. Whey proteins are very famous and common among body builders and it is also what I am taking at the moment. Mine is called Whey Protein Optimum Nutrient which gives me everything I need every morning and couldn’t ask for me.

If there are any questions, or need any advice on a diet or work out routine or anything related please feel free to comment it I will try and respond it with my best knowledge and I am not capable of helping I will find outside help .

¹Cutting: Cutting is a common word in the body building communities and it referrers to Losing fat or weight.

²Bulking: Bulking is the opposite of cutting, it referrers to gaining size in the body building communities.