Why You MUST Be Inefficient For Maximum Fat Loss

By Nick Nilsson

If you want to lose fat as quickly as possible, you have to be inefficient...the more inefficient you are the faster your results will be! Find out why and how exactly it works...

So here's the thing...when you're training to lose fat, efficient is the LAST thing you want to be. Now don't look at me like that. Allow me to explain... Let me set the stage for you...you began your fat-loss training and all the weight training exercises were new and tough. All the cardio was challenging. The diet was rough. Yet you started losing fat FAST. Then you started getting into the groove - you learned the exercises and training techniques, you got good at the cardio and could really power through it. Even the diet part was getting easier.

Now, you would think with things going this well (your training and eating actually improving as you were going) that your fat loss would actually be accelerated.

But then things started to slow down.

You're training just as hard. The cardio is tough but you've found your stride with it. The diet part is going well.

Is your metabolism slowing down? You take a few days off and eat more to try and reset your metabolism and then jump back in but things still aren't moving.

What now?

Time to go back to the drawing board and quite literally go back to when you were BAD at things!

Because when you were BAD at things, everything you did seemed to take more energy. It was inefficient. And in that inefficiency, you burned a LOT more calories...getting the idea now?

Let's take running as an example as this is a very visual thing. Look at two people...one is a first-time jogger, trying to get into shape. The other is an experienced runner.

Let's also assume these two people weigh exactly the same so they SHOULD be burning the same number of calories when they cover the same distance, right?

But when you see the poor guy slogging his way down the side of the road, barely lifting his feet off the ground and you see the OTHER guy practically floating past him, who do you think is burning more calories and challenging their body to a greater degree?

The guy who is completely inefficient is driving his metabolism to a whole other level than the experienced runner, even though the runner is probably going 3 or 4 times faster!

So here's the take-home lesson. When fat loss starts to slow down, you don't necessarily need to work harder at the same things you're already doing...you may just need to do something completely different!

Let's say you're used to doing barbell bench press for chest and rarely ever do dips. Even if you push yourself on the bench press, what do you think will get you cranked up more...bench press or dips? You'll be so unused to doing dips that your body will have to work a lot harder just to perform the exercise.

Then when you get to...

• To lose fat, you must take in fewer calories than what it takes to maintain your current bodyweight.
  
  
• Eating below that maintenance level will create what is called a "caloric deficit". This simply means you are eating less than you are burning.
  
  
• The next step is to add in some exercise. Exercise will increase the size of your caloric deficit without eating less food.

• Keep up this diet and exercise induced caloric deficit and you will lose fat!

Here is an example of the math:

Through diet and exercise together you have created a caloric deficit of 1000 calories.

One pound of fat contains 3500 calories, therefore if you have a caloric deficit of 1000 calories a day for seven days you will burn 7000 calories and, theoretically, lose 2 pounds of fat!

Notes:

• A good rule of thumb to start with is to eat ten times your bodyweight in calories (e.g. if you weigh 150 pounds, eat 1500 calories).
  
  
• The best rate for losing fat is one to two pounds per week. Any more and you are probably losing too much muscle as well. People who are extremely overweight can lose fat faster, though, as they have much more to lose.
  
  
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