Now that you’ve figured out approximately how many calories will maintain your current body weight, all you need to do is eat less than that number to lose weight in body fat and eat more to gain muscle, right?
Well, it’s not that simple. What’s most important in building an awesome physique is your body composition—not how much you weigh on the scale. Body composition is the makeup of the body in terms of the relative percentage of lean body mass and body fat. Obviously, having a higher percentage of lean mass and a lower percentage of body fat is ideal. Your body composition can not be determined by how much you weigh on a scale. Changing your eating habits and exercising more can greatly improve your body composition.
When you begin healthier eating habits, be more concerned with the way you look and feel than the bathroom scale. One thing is certain: The scale is not a good indicator if you are adding high-quality muscle mass. The scale can’t evaluate how the quality of your training and nutritional habits are affecting your body composition.
You may mistakenly believe an increase in weight is due to more quality muscle—and it may be mostly body fat. On the other hand, I have seen quite a few bodybuilders who have obviously gained a fair amount of muscle and, at the same time, lost a considerable amount of body fat—but they were disappointed because they weren’t gaining weight.
The best way to monitor your progress is with a mirror. If you are a “quantitative kind- of-person” who can only relate to numbers, you may want to have an underwater-immersion fat analysis done to accurately measure your progress.
Personally, I don’t care if an underwater-immersion fat analysis, electronic impedance device, or body fat calipers are used to calculate my body fat percentage, I think they all are inaccurate. Even if they are proven to be accurate, I think they’re insignificant.
Let me ask you a couple of questions. If you really didn’t feel good about the way you looked in the mirror, would a low body fat percentage reading all of a sudden make you happy? In other words, would a “good” number change the vision you see when you look at yourself in the mirror? And, if you we sincerely satisfied with the physique you saw in the mirror, and you were measured at a body fat level higher than you expected, would it change the way you saw yourself? If you answered no to these questions, why would you waste your time getting your body fat levels measured in the first place? You have nothing to gain—except for confusion if that reading is inaccurate.
Once again, let the mirror be your guide. Be sure to see what you look like from the rear! Most of your excess body fat will be carried in your buttocks and hamstrings. What you can’t see may hurt you!
Well, it’s not that simple. What’s most important in building an awesome physique is your body composition—not how much you weigh on the scale. Body composition is the makeup of the body in terms of the relative percentage of lean body mass and body fat. Obviously, having a higher percentage of lean mass and a lower percentage of body fat is ideal. Your body composition can not be determined by how much you weigh on a scale. Changing your eating habits and exercising more can greatly improve your body composition.
When you begin healthier eating habits, be more concerned with the way you look and feel than the bathroom scale. One thing is certain: The scale is not a good indicator if you are adding high-quality muscle mass. The scale can’t evaluate how the quality of your training and nutritional habits are affecting your body composition.
You may mistakenly believe an increase in weight is due to more quality muscle—and it may be mostly body fat. On the other hand, I have seen quite a few bodybuilders who have obviously gained a fair amount of muscle and, at the same time, lost a considerable amount of body fat—but they were disappointed because they weren’t gaining weight.
The best way to monitor your progress is with a mirror. If you are a “quantitative kind- of-person” who can only relate to numbers, you may want to have an underwater-immersion fat analysis done to accurately measure your progress.
Personally, I don’t care if an underwater-immersion fat analysis, electronic impedance device, or body fat calipers are used to calculate my body fat percentage, I think they all are inaccurate. Even if they are proven to be accurate, I think they’re insignificant.
Let me ask you a couple of questions. If you really didn’t feel good about the way you looked in the mirror, would a low body fat percentage reading all of a sudden make you happy? In other words, would a “good” number change the vision you see when you look at yourself in the mirror? And, if you we sincerely satisfied with the physique you saw in the mirror, and you were measured at a body fat level higher than you expected, would it change the way you saw yourself? If you answered no to these questions, why would you waste your time getting your body fat levels measured in the first place? You have nothing to gain—except for confusion if that reading is inaccurate.
Once again, let the mirror be your guide. Be sure to see what you look like from the rear! Most of your excess body fat will be carried in your buttocks and hamstrings. What you can’t see may hurt you!
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