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Is there a contradiction between losing weight and gaining muscle? How to choose?
Many friends will encounter such confusion in the process of losing weight, whether to gain muscle or lose fat first. Can these two be done at the same time, which is more important? I've had this problem before. I used to be a fat man weighing more than 200 kilograms, so as an experienced person, I want to share some of my own experiences with you on this topic.

Most of these problems will appear on overweight friends. Many times in life, they will be entangled and distressed by the problem of obesity. So when we really make up our minds to change all this, most of us want to lose weight quickly, hoping to lose more than 20 kilograms a month, so the problem about muscles is ignored.

In this way, even if we lose weight later, it is easy to have loose skin. Think about it. At first, our fat clung tightly to our skin without too many wrinkles, but because we were eager to lose weight and covet speed, we didn't care too much about muscle training. Now there is nothing to make up for the fat, and the skin repair is not so fast. I'm not fat, but my sagging skin is still annoying. Of course, this is more about friends who are starting to be overweight.

Many friends will ask me why my weight has dropped, why my body fat rate has not changed much, or why it has become higher. This is mainly because your overall muscle content has dropped. At this time, you will find that we have not said goodbye to losing weight. If you eat too much in a few days, you will grow faster. If our muscles are reduced, our basal metabolic capacity will be weakened, and our basal metabolism will be reduced, that is, our daily intake of calories will be reduced, so it is not correct.

So if you are overweight (especially friends with obvious waist swimming rings), I suggest you do it together without oxygen, that is, combining fat loss with muscle gain, which will last longer and will not rebound easily. After staying in the gym for a long time, you will find that many coaches eat like us. They have no resistance to delicious food, so their idea is to increase their muscles and basic metabolism, and then eat like crazy. Hahahaha, in fact, eating is really a kind of enjoyment and a gift from God. Hehehe, so in the later stage, they want to control their diet less and keep fit. That muscle must work.

At the same time, I want to tell you that many times, when we talk about losing fat, we say that we should do aerobic exercise, and then gain muscle and do anaerobic exercise. In fact, anaerobic exercise can also reduce fat very well, which helps to reduce fat better. What do we mean by anaerobic and aerobic? It is more about the intensity of exercise and the proportion of energy supply system consumption in our body.

The human body is divided into three energy supply systems: ATP and CP. The system is used when the human body is violently exercising for a short time, and has the characteristics of fast transmission speed and high utilization rate. Anaerobic reaction system, also known as lactic acid energy system, refers to the energy system in which glycogen or glucose is decomposed into lactic acid in cytoplasm without oxygen, and then ATP is synthesized. Because the energy supply time of the original phosphoric acid system is off, this system will soon keep up with the continuous energy supply, and the speed and utilization rate are worse than the first one. Aerobic oxidation system refers to the energy system in which sugar, fat and protein are completely oxidized into water and carbon dioxide in cells, and then ATP is synthesized. His energy supply time is long, the speed is poor, and it is relatively stable.

How do we understand this thing? It's very simple. When you first started exercising, your energy was very strong, and your training intensity became worse and worse. You feel sour, which is particularly obvious when we do anaerobic exercise, which explains the phosphate system and anaerobic reaction system well. There will be a boring process when jogging, and then running sometimes makes you feel energetic again. This is the performance that the later aerobic oxidation system can keep up with.

These energy supply systems are all running when you exercise, but the ratio is different, so anaerobic is also fat-reducing. At the same time, before you do aerobic, you do anaerobic because the energy consumption is not very good at the beginning of aerobic. This is to introduce oxygen-free first and reduce the time of ineffective energy supply. When you start aerobic, you don't have to consider the problem of poor effect in the first 20 minutes.

The above is written by experience. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to leave a message or add attention. Thank you for your support!