How to cut weight to get lean and sexy for the summer!

[WestcoastBratt]

Ok, so summer is right around the corner and everybody is wanting to look their best! Guys want to get lean and ripped so they can walk down the boardwalk and beach without a t-shirt and girls want to get lean so they can feel confident in a bikini at the beach! Well if you want to have the body of the guy (Ronaldo) or girl (Eve Torres) in the pic above, here's what you need to do.

1. Make sure your body is in a calorie deficit! You won't drop any weight if your not. For example if your maintenance calories are 2,700 only eat 2,200 calories daily.

2. Stop eating junk! This one is simple if you eat junk everyday you will not reach your fitness goals.

3. Don't focus on abs too much, focus on cardio! Doing abs will not burn stomach fat, cardio will! If you want your abs to show you must reduce your overall Bodyfat level!

4. Once you hit a wall and stop losing weight, invest in a good fat burner! When you first start cutting weight you will shed pounds quickly but after a handful of weeks your body adapts to it and you won't shed weight as quick as you want, that's where a fat burner should come in to help you out!

Anyways I hope everyone has a good summer and hopefully everyone meets their fitness goals!

[BelleGirl21]

Couldn't disagree more on the fat burner! Will it help you lose fat? Sure and then the second you stop you'll gain it all back and then some. Congratulations you've just messed up your metabolism.

[WestcoastBratt]

That's why you cycle the fat burner for 6-8 weeks and don't take it consecutively for a 6 months to a year like tons of people do

[BelleGirl21]

It's terrible advice no matter how long you're on it. Most of the weight loss will be water weight anyways thereby dehydrating your cells. It's almost never, if ever a good idea.

[BertMacklinFBI]

fat burners is the shit I don't agree with lol. a "good fat burner" holy shit the marketing really has got a hold on people.

[Theguyoverthere]

I agree with you there. They're bogus. Not only that, but some researchers are finding things not on the labels of these supplements inside the product. Oxyelite thermogenic was just found to have prozac in it recently. So all these people are getting hooked on it thinking they got an "endorphin rush" when they were actually taking an antidepressant.

[BertMacklinFBI]

@Theguyoverthere thats what worries me about all these supplements. they always find shit in it thats not even listed on the ingredients. its so shady. the only thing i take is 100% whey protein powder after a workout. my friends would always stock up on pills and im just like nice, you're good at wasting money. lol

[Brovak]

I've always had the opposite problem. I can't put on weight. I ended up gaining something like 10-20 pounds after I started lifting. The amount of fat I have hasn't changed, but I'm definitely more toned now. At the start of the year I weighed about 115ish. I now weigh 125-130. I still look thin, as I'm six feet tall, but I look way healthier. I'm aiming for about 150 by the end of next year. It seems pretty achievable, because I'm making some pretty good gains. I'm now doing 5 reps of 205 pounds for squat, where 200 was my one rep max at the start of the year.

[WestcoastBratt]

Bro 6 feet tall your ideal weight should be around 215 not 150

[WestcoastBratt]

Start eating more! Don't worry about eating super clean just eat! And eat! And keep eating! Keep lifting and training hard everyday, and I promise by the end of the year you will be swoll as fuck

[Brovak]

I can't just eat and eat and eat. It's hard to explain, but I just physically can't. I end up just eating snacks all the time throughout the day rather than meals. I got pretty sick at the beginning of the year and dropped to 115 territory. I know that I should weigh more than I'm aiming, but any gains are good gains when it comes to me.

[soberpiper]

I applaud you for exploding the myth about abdominal exercises taking credit for slimming down one's waste. The only thing working on abs will achieve is hypertrophying the muscles in that region, but does nothing for weight loss or fat reduction. It angers me to see late night infomercials which advertise novelty exercise equipment for the abdomenal region and claiming that it that it will give your mid section a slimmed down look.

[WestcoastBratt]

Yes that is the biggest misconception in the fitness world! The doing abs will slim you down in your midsection! You cannot spot reduce!

[WestcoastBratt]

Cardio will cut you up and make your abs visible

[Silverware]

Cardio on top of proper diet. Diet is HUGE when it comes to abdominals

[Takada]

1. Does not work. You have to pretty much starve yourself and work your ass off to lose weight with a calorie deficit.
2. True. Homemade fried foods also constitute as junk food.
3. Wrong. You need to work yourself to exhaustion to burn even a small amount of calories. Whereas muscle mass burns calories even when you're not doing anything.
4. Wrong. You just have to continue your diet and workout regimen and it will start coming off again after a few weeks.

[WestcoastBratt]

Stop giving these people hippie advice! You do need to work your ass off, this shit ain't for everybody many! Everybody wanna look lean and cut but nobody wanna put in the work!

[WestcoastBratt]

I can already tell you have a negative mindset and your never going to achieve your goals thinking like that

[WestcoastBratt]

You need to change your mentality and say "yea, I can do it, I will do it, and I'm gonna start doing whatever it takes to reach my goal, not tomorrow, not Monday, starting right this motherfucking minute, I'm going to start doing whatever it takes!"

[Takada]

You're one those gym bros that don't know jack shit about nutrition and exercise, but give everyone advice based on stupid little anecdotes you heard from your fellow gym bros. I hope no one listens to your advice, because they will just end up destroying their body and then get fatter than ever once they fall off the wagon.

[WestcoastBratt]

Say whatever you want bro, but I know how to get people from shit to fit

[Takada]

Sure you do, "bro"

[WestcoastBratt]

All u wanna do is talk shit, because you can't get the results that we get! And yet we tell u what to do and you question us? Smh

[WestcoastBratt]

Imagine if Arnold questioned the advice he got by Reg Park! No he fucken took that shit, followed it and became a legend

[Takada]

The results that we get? I'm not jealous of some nobody on the internet and I'm not convinced whatsoever that you are in any good shape. And even if you were, that doesn't mean your advice is good, as many people who look good are not healthy, don't feel good whatsoever, or are simply lying. By the way, Schwarzenegger admitted to having used steroids. So I found it kinda hilarious that you used him as an example.

[WestcoastBratt]

No shit he used steroids dummy, it's no secret, but give credit where credit is due, he still had to workout hard and eat right! Everybody hates steroid users nowadays, to me it's no different then a street racer that decides to put nos in his car so he can have the edge

[ScaryFairy]

Um i have to say you've tried none of that to say they don't work. And it's the combination of all these things that produce the most effective results :3
for number 3, u r only partly right, and the Take owner is right. Muscles don't burn fat just by sitting there okay. They burn fat when they are working and doing cardio facilitates the muscles that you built so they can burn fat effectively.
and i've not tried number 4.

[Takada]

@ScaryFairy It's a comment, you can omit the "um". I have tried all of those things except the fat burner, because other people have tried that and failed miserably. You don't have to try everything to know it won't work, because there's research out there that concludes it doesn't work, just like any other fad diet. I gained all the weight back because it's not sustainable to eat little and exercise your butt off.

Muscles don't burn fat, you dummy, they burn calories. Exercising also doesn't burn fat, it burns calories. And when you exercise, your body chooses to get the calories from sugar first, and then from your muscles, then from your fat. Your fat is the last place your body chooses to go to for calories. So with his advice you'll be skinny fat, starving and miserable.

[ScaryFairy]

well, it's my comment so I can comment however I like it. Let's be fair, nothing is everlasting, life isn't everlasting, why would you expect your weight to stay as it is if you haven't exercise control in it?

My semantics were wrong but the idea is right. Even if fat is the last resort for calories, if you don't exercise would they start looking for the fat for energy at all? if you didn't work for it don't blame the exercise that you didn't do lol. Eating low calories also doesn't mean starving yourself, it means eating low calories :3 and I am a dummy I didn't try 2 be a smart ass.

[Takada]

I would expect something that is sustainable, so I don't repeat the mistakes of so many people who exercise their asses off only to become fatter than ever once they can no longer keep it up. The default state for a human is to be somewhat skinny looking, being fat is not normal for humans. So there has to be some sustainable way through diet to lose weight. And there is, but I won't get into that now. Plenty of people lost weight through a healthy diet without resorting to calorie restriction and without relying entirely on exercise. Being on a calorie deficit means you ARE starving. You are literally eating less calories than you need to function. Hence, starvation.

[GirlsLie]

I like how you assume so many things about Takada without even knowing how in shape she is lol

[inamorata]

To loose weight fast, feel great and be healthy!

Step 1: Eat at least 90% vegetables (as fresh as possible, as many leafy greens as possible) and NO dairy, junk food and no processed foods... (Learn to cook.)
Step 2: Cardio.

Done.

[WestcoastBratt]

Yes people need to learn to cook their own meals to prevent them from cheating! I wouldn't suggest eating 90% vegetables however, you need protein in your diet too.

[inamorata]

Vegetables give you enough protein. Look it up.

[inamorata]

I'm sorry by vegetables I mean plants. xD
English is not my native language and there was a mistranslation. >.<

[WestcoastBratt]

The only vegetables that can give you a lot of protein are beans! Beans are considered a super food!

[inamorata]

No...

[Paint_bubbles]

Now to get off the couch... but really good advice!

[akadatank44]

The only fat burner that actually work was taken off the market years ago because it caused health problems

[Anonymous]

DON'T INVEST IN FAT BURNER!

What a bunch of shit post is that.

[Opinion Owner]

fat burner is not good at all. You can still by natural way.

Don't make business (marketing) trap you in this.

[WestcoastBratt]

A fat burner isn't a magic pill that's going to get you shredded, but it will give you a boost of energy to do cardio and warm you body temperature up so you can sweat more thus helping you lose weight! But you still need to work very hard and eat right!

[Opinion Owner]

No Fat burner is bunch of crap. If you would know something about that.

[DarkHumorRUs]

I've been eating way less over the past year but its done absolutely nothing. Same amount of physical activity.

[WestcoastBratt]

Ok it's also depends what u are eating

[DarkHumorRUs]

I thought you're supposed to lose weight as long as you have a calorie deficit. That's what my athletic training teacher said.

[WestcoastBratt]

Depends what ur eating, if it's all carbs you have a problem

[Consultant]

It's amazing how such ancient advice seems to revolutionary to lots of people.

[Octavion]

That dude is way more fit for a guy then that chick is for a girl...

[WestcoastBratt]

Well the guy is a pro soccer player and the girl is an ex wwe diva but now I think she's a model

[front2back]

Step 1: don't eat like an idiot.
Step 2: Weight training & cardio
Step 3: sleep well.

[WestcoastBratt]

It's more than that, some people will have to eat more than others and some will have to eat less. Some will have to do a lot of cardio and others will have to do less.

[Krushhbrownies]

Awesome! I applaud you. You use Ronaldo as the model for your take !

[bubble_tea]

Don't mind me. I just came here for the pictures *drool*

[Anonymous]

Are you not going to suggest weight lifting? That's honestly one of the best ways to lose weight and gain muscle, it's crazy. People who do that don't even need that much cardio.

[WestcoastBratt]

Well I'm assuming that everybody lifts at least 3 times week. I was contemplating on putting it but I didn't want it to sound like bodybuilding advice, that's not what I was aiming for. I wanted it to sound like fitness advice, you get me?

[soberpiper]

Indeed. The false theory of spot reduction was proven debunked as far back as the 1980's, yet still marketing companies use it to sell equipment, novelties, concepts, etc.. When will it end?

[WestcoastBratt]

It'll never end because so many people still believe it! So many people are lazy and want to take the easy road, they want a little magic pill

[WestcoastBratt]

That's why the majority of people don't look their best! Walk into any gym around 6pm when it's packed, go to gold's, planet fitness, 24 hour fitness, (except for metroflex, because that's a bad ass gym people don't mess around there) and I bet you can count the people that look great on one hand, people that can possible be in a magazine!

[Opinion Owner]

Where does my comment say anything about spot reducing?

[NateInAk]

Well ab workouts are gonna slim SOMETHING man.
They don't just pull their fuel out the air.

[Path1993]

there's a solid misconception that doing ab workouts will burn belly fat, It strengthens ur abdominal muslces, its not designed to burn belly fat

[Drast]

I have the exact opposite problem. No matter how much I eat, my body is always in a calorie deficit.

[WestcoastBratt]

That's weird, how much do you weigh? Multiply your weight by 15 and that will give you your maintenance calories, then just deduction 500 calories and your set to go! That way you know for sure that you are indeed in a calorie deficit

[lovethelife]

It's not weird you're an ectomorph you'll need to eat at least 4000 calories.

[Drast]

I have to take protien shakes to maintain bodyweight.

[Anonymous]

who is that sexy girl in the bikini and shorts... ?

[WestcoastBratt]

Eve Torres

[Yc2K15]

Why can't you get lean and sexy in autumn?

[WestcoastBratt]

U can its just that the summer is a more popular season for people to get in shape

[rocccky]

Give this guy a cookie for using Ronaldo!

[watashiwahanadesu]

It's always summer where I'm from DX

[akadatank44]

Well good fo you 😋 some of us have winter

[watashiwahanadesu]

@akadatank44 I actually like winter...

[akadatank44]

Haha snow too?

[watashiwahanadesu]

@akadatank44 Yes! It's beautiful but I don't like being in it but watching it from in doors is good ^_^