We all want to get lean before summertime; now is the time when people around the world "gets serious" about their diets (which usually means they lose an extra one to two pounds before summer comes, and then proceed to complain about how they can't find a flattering bathing suit).
I see so many people get frustrated that they can't drop the last 20lbs. by dieting extra hard three weeks before that big beach trip they've been planning. That frustration is totally unnecessary this year; we still have plenty of time before beach season arrives, so stop procrastinating, and start getting serious right now if you want to look good on the beach this summer. You won't be stressed or embarrassed when it's time to take your shirt off at the pool, and you can relax and laugh at your friends who try to crash diet and do endless situps a couple weeks before summer trying to lose their winter insulation.
Here are the top ten things I'm doing right now to get lean and muscular for this summer - some of these things you may already do, some of them may surprise you, but either way, they are great habits to pick up if you want to look good in a bathing suit this summer. Before we start, here are the things you WON'T see me doing as summertime approaches:
- Long, boring cardio sessions 4-5 times a week
- Giving up pizza, wings, and the alcohol
- Buying expensive fat burners or appetite supressors
- Brutal, high-intensity interval circuits multiple times a week, which would wreck my nervous system after a while
- Starving myself or feeling hungry and weak all the time
- Losing muscle mass to speed fat loss
Sound good? Then here we go, the ten things I'll be doing almost every day to get lean for the summertime.
1. Only eat carbs in the morning, and after weight training.
Carbohydrates can either be stored as fat or absorbed into your muscle tissues for energy and recovery. Chances are, if you're eating carbs and sitting on your butt, they're going to get nice and comfortable in the fat pockets around your waist and hips. Eat them within 60 minutes after a resistance workout, however, and your muscle tissues will soak them up to replenish lost energy. Eating them in the morning is okay with me; you'll probably use them up through your daily activities. Note: Fruit and veggies are fine throughout the day, I'm talking about limiting grains like bread and pasta to morning and post-workout, as well as sugars, which you shouldn't be eating anyway.
2. Eat protein with every single meal.
Protein has the highest thermic, meaning our bodies expend the most energy trying to digest it. This means that it keeps us full and satisfied longer, and we have to work harder to break it down, a process that requires our bodies to expend energy. Remember, the more energy we use throughout the day, the more fat we burn.
3. Lift. Heavy. Weights.
You know how that article on the home page of Yahoo! Health says that you need to do high reps of bicep curls 6 days a week to get toned? Forget that. High reps work on muscular endurance, and increase the amount of blood and oxygen that can flow to your muscle tissue. Lifting heavy weights for lower reps gets you stronger, and breaks down muscle tissue, meaning it rebuilds bigger and thicker than before. Increasing your muscles' endurance doesn't do anything for your looks, but reducing body fat while increasing muscle size will you look bigger and stronger, I promise. If you don't look "toned" or "cut", you have too much fat covering everything. No other way of saying that.
Another benefit of lifting heavy is that, as mentioned above, it encourages muscle growth. When dieting, muscle tissue can often be broken down for energy, and we can lose some mass or strength. Lifting heavy helps keep our muscles full and strong as body fat decreases. Lifting weights also burns calories for up to 72 hours as your body repairs itself, compared to the 1-hour of calorie burning you might get from a 1 hour cardio session. So lifting weights lets you burn calories steadily all day and all night, while cardio lets you burn calories for an hour. Lifting is much better, and more fun.
4. Drink green tea as often as you can remember.
Green tea has way too many health benefits for me to list here. For those of us trying to get lean, here's what we need to know - it's loaded with antioxidants, which helps remove free radicals that can enter our bloodstream as fat is vaporized (cooler word than burned, eh?). Green tea can is also an appetite suppressor and boosts metabolism, both of which are awesome for fat reduction. One study that I don't have in front of me, cause I'm lazy, had people drink green tea after every meal, without changing what they ate, and they all lost some weight. A fat reduction review can help you construct a clear describe of what you demand to focus on to achieve your fat loss target if you're a beginner; or serve as a reminder for those who are at an intermediate or more improve step of their weight loss program. Following are seven steps that can serve as guidelines for your special weight loss plan. The first thing that one must understand is that losing weight and losing fat is not the same. Many weight loss applications have misled people into believing that it is the same, but most diets and weight loss applications only work by producing a person's body to reduce more muscle tissue and water than actual body fat, more help please visit The Fat Loss Factor. Cool stuff right there. You can also take extract in the form of capsules if you don't want to make a cup of green tea 6 times a day.
5. Take a minimum of 6 grams of high-quality fish oil per day.
This is the stuff right here. Fish oil helps reduce inflammation, which can help our joints and muscles feel a little better as we train hard for summer. It's a healthy dietary fat, which we know helps us lose weight. And although this particular issue has yet to be looked at thoroughly by science, it's been speculated by some very smart people that taking large amounts of fish oil helps increase our insulin sensitivity and carbohydrate handling. What does this mean? In a nutshell, the carbs you eat have a better chance of going into your muscles than they do of going into your fat stores.
Come back soon for part two - if you're impatient, the whole article can be found on my blog by clicking this link.
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