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Many people assume you need to get rid of those unwanted fatty pounds before starting a bodybuilding program. They often try to achieve this with cardio or the latest diet. However, it is completely unnecessary to lose weight before bodybuilding as this would take more effort than doing a bodybuilding program on its own. Let me explain.
In order to lose weight you must burn more calories than you are taking into your body. If you are on a sensible diet plan that reduces your caloric intake and you add bodybuilding exercises to your routine, you will be burning more calories than you are eating and in turn losing weight as you build lean muscle.
A bodybuilding program will drastically help with weight loss. Your body’s metabolism is determined by how your body is capable of burning calories and how efficiently your body burns that energy.
Your body is more effective at burning calories the higher your metabolism is. Your metabolic rate is affected not only by your age and gender, but also by your lean body mass.
The more lean muscle your body has, the higher your metabolic rate is – therefore, as you are bodybuilding and following a diet program, your body will lose weight fatty inches because it is building lean muscle and increasing its metabolic rate.
To attempt to lose weight before bodybuilding is a complete waste of time. As you go through the right sort of bodybuilding program you will be able to see your fat disappear and your muscle mass and/or muscle tone increase.
Many people rely on their body mass index (BMI) to know if they are within a healthy weight range; however, as you work through a bodybuilding program, you will notice that this is no longer a valid indicator of obesity or health.
Muscle is naturally heavy and as you add lean muscle to your body with a bodybuilding program you can see an increase in your actual weight – this does not mean you have gained weight in the typical sense of the word.
BMI is a basic calculation that doesn’t tell you much: it’s simply your height divided by your weight multiplied by 703. Therefore, a body builder could have a BMI similar to someone who is obese, but the bodybuilder may be less than 10% body fat. To accurately gauge your body fat you should use fat callipers or specialist body fat analyzer.
Knowing that your body is going to lose weight while working through a bodybuilding program should give you even more incentive to start a program. As your body adapts to the routine and your lean muscle begins to appear you will see your weight or inches begin to disappear.
You should use inches as your guide rather than actual pounds due to muscle being added to your body as fat disappears completely. No, you don’t need to lose weight before bodybuilding, you do need to body build to help yourself lose weight and feel great about yourself.
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