Common Diet Mistakes

#1. You don't feed the muscle, skinny fat is the result.
Feeding the muscle is critical in dieting down and keeping the weight off. If you drop your calories too much or don't eat for muscle preservation you will end up wasting muscle and crash your metabolism. I've seen this happen too many times; sometimes people get the weight off but it's unsustainable in the long term. They end up

Finding Your Carb Threshold... How?

This is one of the key elements to staying lean, it does take time to figure out but well worth the journey because in the long run, you'll be spending much much less time dieting and more time enjoying food and life. How do you figure this out? It's really pretty easy...

Why Do Most Diets Fail?

If you're currently dieting, you might be doing well you might not. According to studies only about 20% of people that diet are able to reach goals and sustain that idea weight. So, why do most people fail? Because their missing 7 crucial points:

Beginner Diet Advice, short and sweet.

If you're a beginner and new to all this overwhelming information available on the internet all you need to remember is it's simply calorie expenditure. So calories in... calories out. You simply need to eat below your caloric maintenance with smart food choices which Ill get to. There are advanced diets out there which are more targeted for removing stubborn fat (alpha-receptors) when you're quite lean with visible abs, however using them too early can be quite unproductive. They need to be applied at the very last stage. So to keep things simple, Ill just talk about what you the beginner dieter needs to do to get to that stage.

Now, first and foremost... FORGET all the fad diets, their not needed and some are plain nuts! If this diet for you is to be successful it quite simply has to me a "MUST". You MUST want it! There is no excuses...

So, you're a beginner

First and foremost, if you're a beginner you need to look at technique, flexibility issues and imbalances because I know my own muscle imbalances and inflexibility issues lead to injuries, I've had shoulder surgery and lower back problems. Don't take this issue lightly. Seek out a trainer that can pinpoint these issues before they take you out of training either temporarily or permanent.

I really do think to build decent size you need a solid strength base, the more weight you can move without a tendon bounce and good form the greater potential you'll have in gaining size faster without being disappointed. A beginner with size as a focus will fail without a good strength base, so do yourself a favor and do your time under the bar using good form and following a strength routine. Doesn't really matter what one, there is no magic routine just progressing.

To me, a beginner is someone that has been either lifting a year or less, or someone that has potentially been lifting many years and has failed to achieve results...