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in ketogenic diets done correctly, you go super duper low carb to enter ketosis, which is a state where your body burns a lot of fat for energy because of a lack of carbohydrates, but every week (in a ketogenic diet done correctly), there's a span of about a day and a half where you eat tons of carbs so your body can store it all up in your muscles as glycogen needed for... well... exercise and other physical activity.
so tl;dr, if he's doing it right, he's still getting the carbs he needs, but he's just timing it in a way that allows for ketosis to take place
xander, start lifting weights and stop johning about your current level of fitness being inadequate for exercise. it's a valid (read: superior) form of weight-loss exercise that, if done correctly, shocks your muscles so that it's probably more efficient than low/medium-intensity cardio in terms of calories burned over the span of a few days, although not as many calories are burned in the ACTUAL ACTIVITY.... but that's nearly irrelevant. it will help you lose weight (don't question me), and on top of that, it helps you lose weight while maintaining muscle mass, as opposed to dieting & cardio (with no weight training), which will make your muscle mass disappear along with the fat.
being fat doesn't make weight-lifting much harder at all unless you're talking about body-weight exercises like situps, pullups, pushups, hyperextensions, and whatnot. no johns.
in fact, being fat and lifting weights is fantastic because for some reason that i haven't actually researched in much depth, higher BF% makes it easier to build muscle because of... yatta yatta yatta something i don't know. in other words, you will burn fat while building muscle, as opposed to more in-shape lifters who have to eat big caloric surpluses or bulk up to a certain BF% in order to build muscle.
p.s. don't build your own training regimen. just use a pre-made strength program focusing on high weight and low reps on compound lifts
google these and pick one:
1. rippetoe's SS (starting strength)
2. bill starr's mad cow 5x5
3. stronglifts 5x5
ok, i'm done dropping knowledge here now.
so tl;dr, if he's doing it right, he's still getting the carbs he needs, but he's just timing it in a way that allows for ketosis to take place
xander, start lifting weights and stop johning about your current level of fitness being inadequate for exercise. it's a valid (read: superior) form of weight-loss exercise that, if done correctly, shocks your muscles so that it's probably more efficient than low/medium-intensity cardio in terms of calories burned over the span of a few days, although not as many calories are burned in the ACTUAL ACTIVITY.... but that's nearly irrelevant. it will help you lose weight (don't question me), and on top of that, it helps you lose weight while maintaining muscle mass, as opposed to dieting & cardio (with no weight training), which will make your muscle mass disappear along with the fat.
being fat doesn't make weight-lifting much harder at all unless you're talking about body-weight exercises like situps, pullups, pushups, hyperextensions, and whatnot. no johns.
in fact, being fat and lifting weights is fantastic because for some reason that i haven't actually researched in much depth, higher BF% makes it easier to build muscle because of... yatta yatta yatta something i don't know. in other words, you will burn fat while building muscle, as opposed to more in-shape lifters who have to eat big caloric surpluses or bulk up to a certain BF% in order to build muscle.
p.s. don't build your own training regimen. just use a pre-made strength program focusing on high weight and low reps on compound lifts
google these and pick one:
1. rippetoe's SS (starting strength)
2. bill starr's mad cow 5x5
3. stronglifts 5x5
ok, i'm done dropping knowledge here now.
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