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BY Alexander~ | August 17th, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Go To The Gym – Fatass. Part 1, The Principles.


I have a sticking point. It’s not a real sticking point, I made it for myself. The problem is you don’t have to be a good looking or buff guy to get girls. So what motivation does a guy have to stay in shape? We’ll, not dying is a good one. But if you’re going out, drinking, eating and ruining your metabolism AND you understand that your physique has almost no bearing on your ability to pick up, you’re gonna get pretty fat pretty quick.

I got really fat and I considered it be unacceptable. But I didn’t do anything about it because I had no bearing on my social influence and whether or not I attracted girls. I saw no need to do anything about it, until i woke up one day and thought to myself...I’m god damn fat. Yuk.

Even then, I didn’t really take staying in shape or being in shape seriously. I just went on my merry way eating burgers, drinking beer and going to sleep at 8 am every morning of the week. Soon things got violently out of hand. I began with the crash course diets to try and fight the losing battle that was getting worse and worse.

Problem was I, like most people, had no idea what it takes to get in shape and stay in shape. The great masses don’t understand the principles the way they should... and if you look outside, you will see that the great masses are fat.

So, after trying many crash courses, intense diets and ridiculous exercise regimes I created my sticking point. I convinced myself that girls and people would never like me unless I was in good shape. I absolutely convinced myself of this. Slowly and surely I began to hate myself to the point where I fell into depression. Finally I had motivation enough to discipline myself to get into shape. But I had no idea how to get into shape, or even where I could learn about it.

But now I do, and I’m going to share it. One of the hardest things to do is maintain a healthy lifestyle and a good pick up lifestyle. To learn and master pick up its important to go out several nights a week. But, this almost always compromises your diet, you’re workout regime and you’re sleeping habits. This will make you unhappy about your weight, and sooner or later, your sense of self as well.

I’ve been taught a diet that sustains but weight loss and muscle gain, without compromising your ability to go out several nights a week. First, understand a few commonly misunderstood principles.

Most people think that spending hours on the treadmill or cardio machine is the key to losing weight. This is partially true but not the way you want to go about getting into shape. Cardio workout’s call on stored energy, and energy in your food pipeline – the things you have eaten recently. So when you go to do lots of cardio you pretty much just burn what you eaten recently.

If you do longer cardio, exceeding 30 minutes duration, you will begin to tap into stored energy in your body, namely muscle and fat. According to workout books and personal trainers the general consensus is that you will burn 60% muscle and 40% fat when you do longer cardio training. This is no good. You need the muscle. And there is no point having low body fat if you have no muscle definition.

Ultimately, cardio burns little to no fat anyway. The amount is negligible after you burn what you have eaten recently and begin to scratch the surface of stored fats. So you could do an hour of cardio and barely lose any fat at all. You will however be left with a massive energy deficit that will most often leave you wanting to binge eat and sleep to make up for the exhausting work out. In terms of lifestyle, excessive cardio is no good.

The real key to burning fat is having a good metabolism. Think of your metabolism as your body’s economy – and your energy turnover, your food input and your exercise excursion, your currency. If you have a fast economy you spend a lot. If you have a slow economy then you spend little. If you have a fast metabolism you need to eat a lot to retain fat, if you have a low metabolism you need to eat a little bit to retain the fat. Obviously, we want to burn the fat, getting you in shape.

The idea is to speed up your economy so that when there is a deficit between how fast your metabolism is running and how much is has to run on. When there is a deficit it will eat into stored fats, but not stored muscles. Muscles are the most important thing to speed up the economy of your metabolism.

Think of each of your muscles as a store or a trading outlet. It requires energy and it can expend it. Some are small and some are big. All require a constant expenditure of energy to maintain them. Doing long cardio eats away at your muscles, slowing down your economy, meaning that if you eat a standard westernised diet you are going to get fatter every day because the energy you eat has nowhere to be expended.

The answer then is to create bigger muscles and do less cardio. With a good muscular frame it’s like having a collection of trading outlets that need constant currency to be maintained. This means you can eat a standardised western diet and retain your weight, or even lose weight, because there will be a deficit in the food energy you eat, and the food energy required to retain the muscles. This is a good lifestyle, you can eat a regular diet and you are never exhausted from copious amounts of training.

If you go down the track of doing lots of cardio and eat a low energy diet, the minute you get into shape, stop doing cardio and start eating again, then you will get really fat again and achieve the weight ‘yo-yo’ effect.

Another factor that contributes to a good metabolism is consistency of energy turnover. This is like consistent economic turn over. If your body is used to doing exercise and used to eating regularly then it will be become very efficient at burning the energy it is regularly getting. So, shorter and more regular exercise and smaller, more consistent meals. If you’re expending lots of energy and you’re feeding that expenditure rate as soon as you create a deficit in expenditure and energy you burn fat merely as a function of your metabolism.

This is the best and most consistent way to go about burning fat. Instead of crash diets, having no energy and completely changing your lifestyle to something unrealistic and unsustainable.

So what you want is an exercise regime that will built muscle, not burn muscle with excessive cardio, allow a normal diet and a normal lifestyle. Best of all, you will look awesome and feel awesome all the time. What you do; next article..
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Alexander~