The Problem with Weight Loss: Your Body Will Do The Opposite

Really great article below by CA based trainer Alwyn Cosgrove on weight loss. With New Year's Day almost upon us, there are a lot of great principles and concepts to weigh and consider if you are considering a "weight loss oriented" New Year's Resolution. Enjoy!

PJ Striet

The Problem with Weight Loss: Your Body Will Do The Opposite.
By Alwyn Cosgrove http://tinyurl.com/6yyx5z

Homeostasis is the property of a living organism, that regulates its internal environment so as to maintain a stable, constant condition.
When you don't drink enough water in the short term -- often the body retains water. It attempts to maintain homeostasis by counteracting the stresses we put on it.
When you drink a lot of extra water - your body excretes more water to maintain balance.
When we weight train -- we actually break down muscle tissue. And the body responds by building new muscle. It attempts to maintain homeostasis by doing the reverse of the stimulus we placed on it.
When a male takes supplemental testosterone -- the body shuts down its own production in a bid to maintain homeostasis.
When we immunize children against disease -- we actually inject them with a small dose of that disease. The immune system recognizes the vaccine as foreign, destroys it, and 'remembers' it. When the virulent version of an agent comes along, the immune system is thus prepared to respond. In order to prepare the body to defend against a disease - we expose it to the disease - and it responds by doing the opposite - it destroys the disease.

In almost every situation I can think of, the body tries to maintain homeostasis by "doing the opposite" of the stimulus.
How does this apply to weight loss?
Now we know that while you are doing it -- low intensity exercise burns primarily fat.
Higher intensity exercise actually burns more carb stores than fat.
But in every head to head comparison, high intensity exercise results in more fat loss than low intensity exercise - even though the more intense work may burn a lesser percentage of fat during the exercise session.
Burning glycogen results in a larger amount of fat lost than burning fat directly.
The body responds by "doing the opposite"...
Break down muscle to grow more muscle. Burn glycogen to lose more fat.

I designed Warp Speed Fat Loss training program to specifically take advantage of this ‘law’ of nature so that when your body “does the opposite” you’ll end up with faster and greater fat loss.

About the Author/More Info:

Warp Speed Fat Loss is a complete 28 day diet and training system crafted to help you lose 10,15, or 20lbs of body fat in just 28 day. To start losing weight fast visit http://tinyurl.com/6yyx5z. Alwyn Cosgrove, M.S., C.S.C.S. is a nationally renown fat loss expert whose work has appeared in magazines such as Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Muscle & Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Men’s Journal, Self, Oxygen, and Muscle & Fitness HERS. His Warp Speed Fat Loss system is a complete Done-for-You A-Z Fat Loss Blueprint that gives you exactly everything you need to eat and exactly what to do for exercise to lose weight in record time.




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Warp Speed Fat Loss

My client, John Wallace (pictured below flipping a 200 lb. tractor tire at 50 years of age :), and I have recently been featured in an online audio interview at http://www.warpspeedfatloss.com/.

Warp Speed Fat Loss is a new program created by Nationally renowned nutrition guru Mike Roussell along with trainer extraordinaire Alwyn Cosgrove (Men's Health, Oxygen, Men's Fitness magazines). The Warp Speed Fat Loss program was created in order to, as the name implies, maximize fat loss by combining the following:

• Calorie restricted nutrition with a focus on maximizing the thermic effect of feeding and cycling carbohydrate intake based on the amount and type of activity being performed on a given day


• Pure strength training AND metabolic, fat loss inducing resistance training (high volume, multiple joint exercises, short rest periods


• High intensity interval cardiovascular training


• Steady state (traditional) cardiovascular training

John was a "test" subject for this program, and I oversaw his training during a the four week Warp Speed Fat Loss program. The results: JOHN LOST 13.5 LBS. IN FOUR (4) WEEKS!!! In addition, his strength increased substantially despite being a calorie restricted diet which was often low in carbohydrate intake, as did his overall level of conditioning and work capacity.

John's results really caused me to "tweak" my training routines a bit (although a lot of what Alwyn Cosgrove suggests we were doing to begin with) with all of my clients, as almost all of them are striving for the "toned athletic" look and increased fat loss. Check out the interview at the link below:

http://warpspeedfatloss.com/blog/more-case-studies-almost-1-pound-a-day/