Health Book Review

[baronlaw.livejournal.com]

I am reading a new (to me) book called "Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle" and it is very good so far. It not only addresses dietary choices and exercise, but also mind set and motivation. Nothing I don't know at some level or another but having it all in one place and related is very handy. Also this book does something not many health books do, they actually make an effort to tailor the exercises and food selections to your body type. Not your blood type, not your hunter/gatherer ancestors, not your zodiac sign. It is instead based on the mesomorph, ectomorph, endomorph model with a rating scale. Very few people are pure one thing and none of the others and this system takes that into account.

Also it drove home a point I semi-knew but had not really absorbed. You can't lose weight and gain muscle at the same time. You lose weight through calorie deficit, you gain muscle by providing calorie excess and exercising. What you can do is reduce fat weight and increase lean body mass (muscle). So don't pay attention to the scale pay attention to your percentage of fat to muscle and your body shape.

So give it a whirl if you are shopping for something different that will make sense to newbie or old pro alike.

Comments

[baronlaw.livejournal.com]

If you are dieting to lose weight you won't be able to gain muscle. What the book recommends is that you increase your muscle and decrease your fat stores and ignore weight as part of the equation. Indirectly you will lose fat weight and overall weight.