- Stopping Exercise Result In My Muscle Tissue Turning To Fat
This has to be one of the most asked questions in health related topics. This is a complete falsehood.
Firstly muscle and fat are 2 completely different tissues it is biologically impossible for one to turn into another. The simple fact is that when you stop exercising your muscle-to-fat ratio changes; your muscle tissues shrink thus clearing the way for fat tissue to take their place. This whole process is compounded by your caloric intake (which if still maintained minus your former training regime) results in an increase in fatty tissue! This then gives the illusion that your once defined obliques have become love handles and your wash-board stomach has transformed into a food pouch.
You can prevent your muscle tissues from shrinking excessively without going to the gym by keeping physically active through moderate everyday activities. But your body will adjust to your lifestyle eventually… our bodies are living computers if your built-up muscle tissue is no longer required for resistance activity this will be communicated to your body – resulting in muscle tissue becoming smaller and readjusting to the biological norm of the environment you live in. Do not expect your body to maintain complete proportions and development if you stop gym activity completely, a body that has been built in the gym will only (in the long term) be preserved by the activity that got it there in the first place.
- Eating Late At Night Make Me Gain Weight
The answer to this question is yes – the extent and degree is defined by you as an individual; your body’s metabolic rate, how active you are and your lifestyle. Dietitians usually recommend the after 8pm no food consumption rule to help prevent weight gain if so desired.
Lets be clear on the on subject of what happens to our bodies when we sleep – whilst you are sleeping your body is in a state of recuperation and repair, repairing bodily functions, assimilating what you have consumed and converting it to energy to repair cell tissue. It essentially is a natural fasting period where your body is literally cleansing itself. When you wake up you have breakfast to replenish and energise the body after this period of fasting (hence the meal term break-fast).
Now depending on your body type if you have a fast metabolism or a slow one, and what your aims are eating before you go to bed will make you put weight on! Forget the scientific claims on what works with animals my claims are based on human beings – my own findings and those of my gym contemporaries, professional body builders and athletes. It is common knowledge that the best experts on nutrition are bodybuilders they have disproved scientific theory and claims because they are the ones who are experimenting on themselves with nutrition to have control over their body’s development. Officially science has accepted that protein is a building block of muscle, something that was well known fact in bodybuilding circles for decades. I will cover this whole subject in more depth in my nutrition analysis later on.
- Eating a diet of just fruit will help me lose weight
Answer = No – First of all what essentially is fruit to us? I am not going to delve into the complex biological context and composition of fruit, it is simply a natural sugar source with a low GI (Glycemic Index) containing many beneficial minerals and vitamins which are broken down by the body slowly and converted into sucrose and glycogen to provide the body with energy. Natural sugar sources are far more beneficial than processed sugar sources as they are less taxing on the body and are assimilated more slowly, thus allowing for a fairer distribution of caloric energy. They work as an excellent post-workout sugar food source and can be beneficial to any exercise programme.
Now if we go over what has been said the word sugar has been used more than once and herein lies the problem; if excessive fruit is consumed even though it is a natural food source and is far better than processed sugar it still is sugar. Therefore if a person was to go on a diet of just fruit you would undoubtedly be consuming too much sugar which would be absolutely counterproductive if your aim was to lose weight - you would in fact be more prone to gaining weight.
I have come across many people who are always trying diet plans from fashion magazines who have been on fruit diets and are baffled by an increase in weight or no weight loss at all. Why make your life complicated start off by understanding the facts – simply look at how many calories you are consuming daily and find out the calories contained in the foods you are consuming and reduce them sensibly. As a starting point understand the importance of protein, carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins in relation to the human body. If doing the research is too long winded get the perspective of a qualified personal trainer or nutritionist to give you the foundation knowledge. I will be posting up listings of food groups and an example diet plan in the near future to illustrate this more clearly.
In conclusion a strategic balanced diet (not a fruit diet) in response to your body type with a good exercise regime will achieve weight loss.
