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Unexplained muscle mass loss
Don't worry about it.
My gym has had an InBody scanner for a few years now, so I've had a bit of experience with them. Assuming it's the same model as the one I'm used to, it uses bio-electrical ...
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Diet to loose excess fat that includes raising the metabolism in the morning and fasting until lunch (2pm)?
Both your friend and wife are wrong.
Your friend seems to believe that fasted cardio leads to greater fat loss, but it simply doesn’t. Your body might attempt to use more fuel from fat during such a ...
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Can weight lost be sustained through exercise influenced metabolism changes?
Warning, wall of text incoming. Sorry, but there's a lot to look into. TL;DR at the end.
Let's first take a look at what seems to influence (base) metabolic rate the most. For starters, when we look ...
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Unexplained muscle mass loss
Bioelectrical impedance analysis of body composition can give quite variable results, and in particular is known to be affected by water and food intake independent of body composition. So I wouldn't ...
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What is the name of the test I had on my first day at gym?
I'm a former ACE certified trainer. What you describe sounds very much like the YMCA Sub-maximal Bicycle Test. It's used to evaluate physical work capacity, especially for someone new to the gym. ...
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Can weight lost be sustained through exercise influenced metabolism changes?
Maintaining Weight Loss: Who is the biggest loser?
Introduction
There is a lot to consider when examining the impact of changing lifestyle in the short or long term with the goal of losing weight. In ...
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Can weight lost be sustained through exercise influenced metabolism changes?
I've unwittingly done a long term experiment on myself. The answer, in my case at least, is yes. I used to weigh about 63 kg and eat about 3000 kcal/day a decade ago. Today I eat about 3800 Kcal/day ...
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How to gain muscle and lose fat with running and weight lift?
Running can conflict with muscle gain if your heart rate remains too elevated. If you want to lose the fat while gaining lean tissue.
Cardio should be performed below your first ventilatory threshold.
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How to prevent a plateau when you are in a caloric deficit?
There are many factors that affect metabolism.
Size - The heavier you are, the more calories you burn existing. Also moving at a heavier weight burns more calories than moving at a lower weight. So as ...
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How to prevent a plateau when you are in a caloric deficit?
You can experiment to see what level of deprivation negatively impacts performance for you specifically (everyone is different), but in general it is a good idea to take a more modest approach to fat ...
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How to gain muscle and lose fat with running and weight lift?
Running may reduce the effect of strength training of legs.
In order to reduce this interference effect you should (1):
keep your running sessions short (< 45 minutes)
have as much time as ...
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why do we need more rest when lifting heavy?
“why exactly lifting heavy (at least 1.5 x body weight) makes us
require more resting\recovery time? “
First off, it's hard to quantify the exact amount of recovery time on an individual basis. ...
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How much cardio is advisable for an overweight person who is new to bodybuilding?
What your trainer said you is in part right. Just in part.
First of all you have to understand why it works like he said. Muscle activity i mostly based on contraction, and on firing rate of muscle ...
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Are there any advantages of being an ectomorph?
I'm an ectomorph. I'm 6'2 and, maybe 140lbs. The only exercise I do are push ups, chin ups, sit ups, and triceps dips. I can easily lift my own body weight. I can carry over 200 lbs on my back. But, ...
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Does food temperature affect absorption time and efficiency?
The rate of digestion depends upon the surface area of the food particles, and yes, its temperature, with the ideal temperature for gastric emptying being on the warm side (~43°C), but not hot. ...
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Is calories in vs. calories out 100% the same for every individual?
You are correct that things are never equal. However, the concept that calories in = calories out is correct on an individual basis.
So, however you mess with things, boosters, whatever, you will ...
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Is calories in vs. calories out 100% the same for every individual?
Nobody said that all people need the same amount of calories.If i get right what you are saying you mean that if for example we have a person A and a person B.Both have the same BW and muscle mass ...
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I'm not losing weight
If you haven't already done so, start a food journal. Most people underestimate how many calories they are consuming. Guessing at what you are eating while trying to lose weight will not help. Use ...
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The truth about calories from alcohol
From the top answer in How Does Alcohol Really Affect Gains, the first bullet point state:
Unlike proteins, carbs, and fats it cannot be stored by the body, so it takes precedence over all other ...
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Why don't people get fatter even faster than they do?
I would guesstimate that most people in the developed world consume at least 1000 kcal more per day than they spend.
While I can't confirm that the 1000 kcal fact is true, it is fairly common ...
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why do we need more rest when lifting heavy?
It's called recovery, which means your muscles are recovering from any possible damage and fatigue from the lifting. They need a break to be ready for the next lifting. What do people usually say, ...
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Unexplained muscle mass loss
Bear in mind that cardio is not great for building muscle mass anyway. In fact depending on the type of cardio you're doing it may reduce your muscle mass slowly anyway, especially as you get older.
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Diet to loose excess fat that includes raising the metabolism in the morning and fasting until lunch (2pm)?
Since you are clearly asking about intermittent fasting. Let me give you some background first. I was obese since I was a little kid. It never bothered me anyway until I turned 21 and my friends ...
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Increasing calories daily
20% increase could be a fairly non-extreme jump, assuming your current amount of calories is somewhere around your baseline (meaning you are not gaining any weight, but not loosing any as well).
For ...
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why do we need more rest when lifting heavy?
The exact reason you require more time for recovery as you get stronger is easy to see if you consider the difference between an untrained man with a 12 inch pipe-stem for an arm and a well-...
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Clenbuterol dangers?
"Clenbuterol is a sympathomimetic that works on the sympathomimetic nervous system. There are several receptors in the body a sympathomimetic can act on. In the case of Clenbuterol, the beta-2 ...
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How does our body dispose of excess calories (physiologically speaking)?
These are good questions and good answers. To a degree however one can get tangled in the details. This seems to be a problem in the medical community. My reply, since lacking the details of the ...
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