Weight Loss For Athletes: 6 Secrets

by Kenney on 29. Apr, 2009 in Featured

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Thanks for joining us today in our “weight loss for athletes” post.

It can be a challenge trying to determine what weight that you should be at in your sport or at your position.

If you are a competitor, then you want to be the best that you can be… Sometimes that means that you have to gain weight or lose weight.

…But as an athlete it is critical how you gain weight or the weight loss program that you use, because it will effect your ability to compete in a good way or a negative way.

First point that I want to make is that you need to determine your goals… create a vision for exactly how much you want to weigh, how much of that you want to be muscle, and why you want to lose weight.

This is of the utmost importance.

Why?

Because along the way when you face a challenge, and they will come, you will give up or stop chasing your vision.

That means that you will not reach your weight loss goal. I want you to be successful… and I know this step is critical.

When ever you feel like you want to stop, just take a look at your vision, then take a look at your why. This should give you the motivation that you need to stay the course.

Weight Loss For Athletes: 6 Secrets

1. Write down your vision and your why and read it everyday.

2. Start every meal by picking your protein first, then your veggies and fruits, then your carbs for energy. This is the way you should design your meals. Protein is critical for athletes because every muscle in your body needs it to repair and recuperate.

This will help you to recover from workouts, and to help you keep from injuring muscles (strains, pulls, tears). The veggies and fruit are for your health to keep you from being sick and to help with recovery.

Plus they are very low calorie for how much you can eat and will help you to get full without all of the excess calories. Then your carbs. Carbs are most important for your energy for the day. Eat enough carbs to give you enough energy for the activities of the day.

On workout days you need a little more protein and a little more carbs. On longer workout days, you need even a little more carbs… but on light training days or rest days, you don’t need very many carbs at all.

3. Becareful not to only look at weight loss, but more importantly, body composition. This means that it’s more important that you are lean and weight a little more, than if you are mostly made up of fat and weight a little less.

See, muscle weighs more than fat, so if you are hitting the weights and gaining muscle, you may gain weight, but lose fat. So, you have to pay attention to what type of weight your are losing or gaining. Get an “Accu Measure self body fat tester” to help, along with a weight scale.

4. Always pay attention to results. Weigh your self daily, and track your success weekly. This will help you to always stay on top of what is or is not working. If you’re gaining weight then it won’t be months down the road before you realize it.

If your weight loss plan is successful, you will know exactly what’s working and you can keep with that plan until it stops working, then make the necessary adjustments.

5. Weight Loss comes from many different factors. There are many factors that make up you body weight: Bones, fat, muscle, waste in your body, water, skin, and etc. Getting rid of any of these will help with your weight loss plan… But Obviously you’ll want to get rid of stuff you really don’t need or don’t need a lot of… like waste product.

Doing a colon cleanse is a great way to start your weight loss plan. Second working out hard (exercise) while maintain the proper protein intake and cutting back on calories from fats and carbs will help you lose fat while maintaining muscle.

6. There are 3 main ways athletes burn calories (lose weight). Working out, Cutting back calories, and the calories burned from digestion. Protein burns the most calories to digest.

The BIGGEST Secret for weight loss for athletes… In order to lose weight, you must create a consistent daily calorie deficit. Meaning, you need to consistently take in less calories than you burn in order to lose weight daily (consistently).

Hope you enjoyed this weight loss for athletes post.

If you put these secrets to use you will lose weight, but maintain the muscle that you need to perform great.

To You Dreams and Happiness,

Kenney

P.S. We have a weight loss blog if you want more “how to lose weight fast” secrets.

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