hey guys,
I've gained 12 pounds since xc season... I think a lot of it is muscle because I've increased my pullup max to like 15. Anybody have any tips to get rid of all this excess fat and muscle because all it's doing at this point is weighing me down. I've been training hard for like the past month but the weight isn't coming off at a fast rate. I've lost a pound or two maybe... any advice is welcome!
thanks guys
drink only stuff with zero calories
FG wrote:
hey guys,
I've gained 12 pounds since xc season... I think a lot of it is muscle because I've increased my pullup max to like 15. Anybody have any tips to get rid of all this excess fat and muscle because all it's doing at this point is weighing me down. I've been training hard for like the past month but the weight isn't coming off at a fast rate. I've lost a pound or two maybe... any advice is welcome!
thanks guys
I don't know what your diet is, but a diet high in consumption of fruits and vegetables and low in consumption of animal-source foods might help very significantly.
I have been listening to an audiobook called "In Defense of Food." It is relatively short so I would recommend listening to it on drives. The author basically goes into the downfalls of modern nutritionalist thinking. The best thing to do is eat REAL food (veggies, fruits, whole grains). If something has more than 5 ingredients or ingredients that you don't recognize; its probably not good for you. Stick to things that can't be messed up.
Don't stress yourself out about it. A couple of easy fixes I can think of would be
1) drink only water, tea, black coffee, etc
2) stop eating dessert (or scale it back considerably)
3) eat as many vegetables as you can
4) limit the things you eat which come out of a package (processed food)
I used to stress out about my mass a lot because I'm taller and tend to carry more just because of that. I gained ten pounds over my Christmas holiday this year while running 60mpw, and guess what? It all came off pretty quickly doing the above.
If you want to lose weight, it would be easier to find an altitude or celestial body where the gravitational field is weaker.