Some Thoughts on Training and Eating When it comes to “getting in shape,” the average gym-goer tends to go about it wrong. Man. Woman. Doesn’t matter. The problem typically made is that they train “tough” and they also eat “tough.” By this, I mean that one usually starts doing a hard-as-hell, bust-your-ass workout plan combined with a dietary regimen of very little calories. Oh, this works. For the short term. Until it stops working completely, not to mention the fact that it’s mind-numbingly painful. You can forgive the “average” person, I suppose. They probably watched too many episodes of that god-awful “Biggest Loser” show, where such tactics of pain-as-progress were put on the television for the world to see. But when you train big and eat little , you’re doomed to fail. Training a lot and eating a little is the primary reason...
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