[quote]jskrabac wrote:
[quote]staystrong wrote:
First: losing fat is about diet. NOT your workout. The routine is a very minimal variable when it comes to losing weight. What you eat and how much is way, way more important.[/quote]
I’ve been around much longer than my screen name suggests. I’ve seen your posts from back in the day, your first diet thread, your competition thread. I know you understand this stuff, what my statements mean, and why I said them to the OP in response to his posts in the thread.
Yes changing your workout can cause you to burn more calories, which since calories in vs. calories out is the main factor will shift that equation a bit due to you burning more calories. I think I even alluded to that in one of my posts here, but since it’s been a couple months and I’m in the “quote” page right now can’t really double check.
Do you truly believe that what and how much you eat are in fact NOT more important than the workout routine? Do you believe the workout program you do is actually a very large variable when trying to lose weight, and that diet is a minimal variable? The classic argument at this point would be “you can’t out-train a bad diet” and it doesn’t matter how much you burn in a workout if you eat more than you burn. While I think that first statement can be read in a way that makes it pretty useless, the second statement seems pretty sound logically.
You can lose fat/weight easily without any cardio or changes to a workout; you can also lose fat/weight by increasing calories burned. But you still have to eat the right macros and amounts to lose weight despite increasing your calorie expenditure. If you change your workout to burn another 200 calories yet don’t pay attention to your diet so you don’t accidentally add 200 calories, it’s useless. Since eating the proper amounts in both scenarios is what drives the progress, not the actual change in your workout routine, would it not make sense to conclude that “losing fat is about diet. NOT your workout. The routine is a very minimal variable when it comes to losing weight. What you eat and how much is way, way more important”?
I’ve lost weight (down to a six pack) without changing my workout program at all. I’ve gotten fat working out extra days in a week with shorter rest periods and running sprints 2-3x a week. Burning those extra 200 calories in a workout is not as important as understanding what to eat (i.e. macros) and how much. You can easily negate those extra 200 calories burned if you don’t take care to focus on the nutrition side to prevent that.
Maybe that sums up my long *** post best: “You can easily negate those extra 200 calories burned if you don’t take care to focus on the nutrition side to prevent that.”
That is what was meant.
