How to Lose Fat and Gain Muscle

No matter what anybody tells you, there are only 4 ways that you can change the way your body looks.

You can gain or lose fat, or you can gain or lose muscle. That's it.

Despite what some "gurus" say, you can't lengthen a muscle, you can't tone a muscle, you certainly can't turn fat into muscle and if your an adult you definitely can't grow any taller!

Now, if you are interested in changing the way your body looks, I'm assuming that you don't want to put on fat, and you don't want to lose muscle, so let's concentrate on the other two methods.

Losing Fat

Losing fat takes a combination of diet and exercise.

Simply - you have to burn more calories then you eat, and you need to lift weights to preserve muscle.

I know many people make it out to be more complicated then this, but it really isn't.
The proper workout routine will tell your body that it needs to keep all of its hard working muscle. And since you are burning more calories then you are eating your body needs to use something else as a fuel, so it ultimately turns to your fat stores.

The right workout program can do wonders to rev up this fat burning process.

Building Muscle

I'm not talking about steroid induced Ms Olympia type muscle, I'm talking about the type of muscle that effects your posture, makes you stand taller and straighter, and evens out your proportions - it's what we at grrlAthlete call the athletic look.

If you are looking for this type of muscle then your workout is everything. Far too many people worry about the effects that their nutrition has on their muscle - it's minimal at best.
Your workouts dictate what type of muscle you have.

So if you are getting ready for summer, but aren't getting the results you'd like to see, stop agonizing over counting calories, or grams of protein, or about the glycemic index of your carbs, and look at your workout program.

A well designed program should help you burn fat and develop the muscles that count.
If you've never had a professionally designed work-out program then perhaps its time you treated yourself. Our ShapeShift Package gives you get 3 unique exercise programs. Each program is designed to increase your metabolism, increase your fat loss and build strong muscles in the right places.

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Take it from me, when the "nutrition guy" is telling you to concentrate less on what you eat, and more on making sure your workout is working for you, it must be important!

Brad and the Team at grrlAthlete.com

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