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Why You're Not Losing Fat & Building Muscle (Avoid These Mistakes) | Dr. Andy Galpin PT 2

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

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The Importance of Carbohydrate in Fat Loss

There's no targeting of fat loss specifically in the exercising muscle that much. It's mostly coming from everywhere else in the body, which is why when people lose fat they don't just lose it in the area that they were working out. So think about it as a storage mechanism thing, not an actual burn thing 100%. If you wanted to use fat to power that protein synthesis process, you'd have to go through that delay. You'd have to liberate it and put it in tissue... And it burns more slowly? Kind of.

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