Quote Originally Posted by Jamoie
Quote Originally Posted by md
If your fat with no muscle mass then building fast twitch fibres to increase the amount of energy your body will use is key. Although,if you have muscle mass working it aerobically initially will increase muscular oxygen uptake efficiency before doing the fast short stuff will produce better results.

A thing called epoc (excess post-exercise oxygen consumption) accounts for the loss of weight following fast exercise but if the basic aerobic system isn't working efficiently you won't burn energy (fat) as well as you could.


Also, any muscle mass will aid fat loss.

1 pound of muscle, doing absolutely NOTHING burns 7 calories an hour.
1 pound of fat, doing absolutely NOTHING burns 3 calories an hour.
You can see where it helps.
So say you weigh 200 pounds (heavy yes) and 100 pounds of that is muscle (easily) then your burning 70 calories doing absolutely nothing. Thats without calculating the breathing and other normal bodily activites that add on a LOT more calories per hour.
cc Jamoie. You've got it.

Pitbull has, by the sound of it, plenty of muscle mass. So my recommendation is to get that muscle mass working. By developing is aerobic ability he will utilise more calories. He doesn't need to develop more muscle to achieve his fat loss goal he needs to work the muscle. A low/moderate intensity to begin with will increase aerobic enzymes and oxygen uptake to the muscles which will increase the amount of energy or calories they are able to burn.

I'm all for fast interval training especially sprints and other high intensity stuff, as Von describes, at the right time.