Conflicting Fat Loss Information

Everyday I read dozens of fitness and fat loss articles. Needless to say I don't agree with many of them. So I cut through the clutter for you, and here are my comments on a few of the biggest fat loss controversies out in fat loss land.

Low carb diets
Simply put, these should be re-named for the general public as low-sugar diets, or low-processed carbohydrate diets. Eliminating sugar and processed carbs should be a "no-brainer" for someone that wants to lose fat.

Training one body part per day
Rarely is this the best approach to take. And it's definitely not the right approach to take long term, nor for fat loss.

Total body training, or upper-lower body split routines (working upper one day, and lower the next) is more effective, more practical, and more efficient. Three total body workouts per week, followed by interval training on the same day or alternate days. Very simple, very effective.

Meal frequency
Yes, it's a lot easier said than done to eat 6 or more small meals per day, but if you plan ahead, prepare your food, and commit to the approach, you can probably slip in one more meal at least, when compared to what you do now.

Overall, the general consensus among readers is that there is too much fat loss and fitness information out there. Plus, a lot of experts contradict one another.

Now I don't deny that, but I challenge you to find any profession where there isn't a lot of conflicting opinions. From investing to politics, from education to computers, it's not hard to find two experts that disagree with one another.

Well, the same thing happens for a lot of people with fitness information. You read one article saying X, while another says Y. All in all, it leaves you with too much information and you probably end up more confused and frustrated than you were before getting the information.

I get a lot of questions from people who are in precisely that situation. They have so much info from so many sources that they don't know where to start.

Even worse, some of you start obsessing over details. Fitness and nutrition minutia that won't make a darn difference at the end of the day. Sometimes these obsessions lead people to go to extremes, and you can end up worse off than if you had done nothing at all!

If you, or your clients are like this, then try to remember one thing...and that is:

Consistently performing the basic requirements will give you 90% (or more) of your results.

Adding in fancy training methods, extra workouts, impossible-to-follow eating plans, and other un-necessary details will only serve to overload most people's already over-stressed lives - until one day you just won't be able to take it anymore...and the next thing you know 3 weeks have gone by since you last worked out or ate properly (because you just couldn't take the extremes anymore).

Here's a great quote from Alwyn Cosgrove when he was asked how folks can get to the fitness truth from all the hype...

"I help people to break through by looking at things logically. One of my favorite examples is when folks talk about 'fasted' cardio for fat loss. In real world terms it won't make one single bit of difference over time whether you eat two eggs and then train or train and eat two eggs. It doesn't make any real world sense. Before acting on something, think thru the process and determine if it actually makes any sense whatsoever." - Alwyn Cosgrove

For more of Alwyn's info, go click here.

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CB

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