Currently i’ve just started the velocity diet and im a bit worried, first im around 280 pounds and ever since I gave up sport I put on weight. Im still physically active and can exercise but just unfit.
Is the velocity diet suited to people who want to dramatically lose weight? From what I read it was a fast fire fix for morbidly obese patients to lose weight for an operations.
I started it two days ago and feel good, I take 5 shakes a day with and rotate days with milled linseed (flaxseed). I also take a product similar to HOT-ROX. I havn’t craved or felt hungry at all and definately look forward to my shakes.
I follow the velocity diet mostly, half an hour walk in the morning everyday but I also do 45 mins of intense cardio each night before my weights sessions where i do a full body workout (levers and cables) as I have noone to spot me.
Here’s my dilemma, people have told me a diet of protein shakes will not help me lose weight but put weight on??. Is this true? Am I going down the right track to lose weight fast but retain/add muscle?
Very confused, any help would be greatly appreciated.
If you do the diet as per the guidleines set by Chris Shugart you should lose fat and keep, if not gain a slight amount of muscle.
As far as losing muscle is concerned this is why Chris doesn’t advise the type of cardio you’re doing, just fasted walks and weights.
Do a search of the site for the original Velocity Diet thread, read it through and make your own decision, but I’d recommend dropping the intense cardio.
Im not so much worried about losing muscle, obviously best results would be to lose weight and retains muscle but im worried about the fact that because im around 280-90 pounds now that a protein shake diet while following the guidelines will not allow me to lose weight…is this diet only supposed to be used for weightlifters looking to lose a small amount of weight to turn into muscle?
No, they’re full of crap. You’ll lose weight if you stick with it.
You sound scared though. You’re on day 2 and letting little things uninformed people say influence the way you’re doing things. You just started this thing, give it more than 2 days to find out for yourself.
[quote]bastianbris wrote:
Im not so much worried about losing muscle, obviously best results would be to lose weight and retains muscle but im worried about the fact that because im around 280-90 pounds now that a protein shake diet while following the guidelines will not allow me to lose weight…is this diet only supposed to be used for weightlifters looking to lose a small amount of weight to turn into muscle?[/quote]
well essentially you are a weightlifter you state your lifting. and NO it will make you lose fat and should shed a LOT and quickly in your case and those whom are very overweight could likely adjust the calories a tad for the large amount of fat mass compared to LBM
Also you SHOULD be worried about retaining LBM to not do so is idiotic it is in a sense your metabolism and well what you want to be left and make you up after do all you can to lose fat and preserve that LBM more attention going to body comp then weight loss.
I would follow the plan drop the high intensity cardio take that time tio focus on High intensity lifting and maybe MAYBE if you must follow the lifting with LOW intensity cardio.
But back to your question on if a protein shake diet will allow to lose fat YES. I mean thats like them stating a chicken breast diet will make you not lose fat or a fish diet. Its PROTIEN, the sake just makes it simple easy to follow less planning and the use of Metabolio Drive with the protein mix casien etc and the sustained digestion allows blood levels of aminos to be fairly constant so the body wont turn as readily to muscle for aminos for glycogen production through conversion (glycogenisis sp?) and will use the existing blood levels and fat as fuel.
Good luck fix that training and let us know how it works for ya,
Phill
I just wasn’t sure if I read the article correctly.
From your advice I think im going to cut my intense cardio back down to around 10-15 mins. I think it may be a good idea just to get the fat burning process started and to warm the muscles.
I will bring back my weights routine tonight so you can see exactly what im doing, it just seems like alot of lat pull downs and seated bench press then just normal leg weights and situps thrown in.
Now one more question? how hard should I go at weights? 2 sets of maybe 12 reps where i really struggle to get through a rep? and yeah I understand that I need to be doing the correct technique…or should i go for 4 sets 12 reps where i struggle around the 10-12 rep of my set? Does intense mean really pushing your muscles in a short duration?
Might seem like a stupid question but dont want to be doing it the wrong way
As I said I have noone to spot me so I cant really do many free weights like deadlifts or squats
started with 5 mins on ERGO (rowing) machine then swapped to bike to do 5 mins of fat burning mode.
then did around 30 minutes of weights.
2x8 sets of seated bench press
3x8 sets of lat pull downs
3x5 sets of pec flys
3x12 sets of 45 degree leg press
3x8 sets of shoulder press
3x8 seater lever row
3x8 front pull downs
ok probably dont seem like many reps but i went FULL at it, the first 2 felt fine but after that it was a struggle to finish the technique, but I made sure I did, it kept my heart rate up and pushed me hard.
Any comments? should I maybe take some weight off the excercises and go for more reps?
Felt a bick sick after training, bit tight chested and like I wanted to spew but I seem to be okay now