Fat invites more fat!
Countless new clients come with the same complaint. Why am I not losing body fat I exercise all the time?
The answer is simple fat invites fat. If you are carrying Visceral fat its messing with adiponectin a hormone that regulate your metabolism. The more Visceral fat you have the less adiponectin that’s being released and the slower your metabolism is.
So what is Visceral fat? Its fat that resides behind your abdominal muscles and surrounds your organs. The Visceral fat begins working its magic by releasing a variety of substance called adipokines. These adipokines include compounds that raises your blood pressure, encourage diabetes, arterial inflammation,and high blood pressure and help keep you fat.
There are 3 ways to burn calories:
1.Digestive Metabolism (10% of daily calories) .This is a result of digesting your foods. YOU burn about 10 % of your daily calories. You will burn more calories digesting protein than carbs or fats.
2.Exercise and movement metabolism (15-30% )of your daily activity
This part of your metabolism includes your gym work out and other physical activities. It also includes your countless movements through out the day.
3.Basal (resting) metabolism (60-75 %) of your daily burn
This represent the calories you burn doing nothing at all. Your heart beating lungs breathing even cells dividing.
Your basal metabolism is determined by sex,age,genetics and height. Also your muscle to fat ratio !!!!!!!!!! Did you know fat is lazy on a metabolic level? Fat burns barley any calories at all. To support a pound of fat your body burns 2 calories a day. Muscle is where its at. Muscle is metabolically very active and efficient. One pound of muscle burns 3 times as many calories each day to sub-stain itself. FAT hates Muscle!
Muscle is constantly burning off fat. So this is why its so hard to loose weight through just exercising alone.
How can we fight Visceral fat? Knowing your metabolism and how to apply exercise that raises your Basal metabolism ( resting metabolism). A great place to start is in the weight room fight back with muscle the more you have the more it fights off the fat. A weight training program 3-4 times a week along with nutritional support that includes 5 serving of protein daily. Keep up some cardio for your heart. Remember when your friend is bragging about the calories they burned on the treadmill you could be in the weight room building more muscle and turning up your metabolism into a fat burning machine !!!!!
