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Ep. #946: The Best of Muscle For Life: Nutrition for Athletes, How Fast You Can Lose Fat, & Cold Showers

Muscle for Life with Mike Matthews

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Losing Weight

When body fat levels are very high, the body knows it has large energy reserves. And as we get leaner, we feel the effects of these defensive measures more and more. Based on this study, you could hypothesise that an upper limit for fat loss, talking about a physiological ceiling, is about a pound per day. In other words, no matter what we do, we cannot physically burn more than a pound of fat per day. So what can we do then? Well, there's another study that lends insight to this, and it was conducted by a man named seymour alpert. He put 15 overweight men aged 18 55 follow a back breaking diet and work out programme

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