I don't know why this is such a big deal. Everyone has different goals, for the time being NROL doesn't fit mine.
Everything I have read everywhere says you can't REALISTICALLY lose weight and gain muscle at the same time because one requires a deficit and one requires eating above maintinence. Unless of course you are obsese and you have a huge amount of weight to lose.
No doubt it would be safer to lose my weight over a period of a year or so but I see no reason why I would do that when there are other methods that seem almost as safe in the short run and over the long run make no difference to my health.
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Originally Posted by OldGuy
You've made it through maybe a weeks of workouts and this is the second time you've called it crap. Hypertrophy be damned you have 40 lbs. of fat to lose, lardass.
I see your goal as failure no matter what program you do.
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Please don't concern yourself with my success. You may however want to work on your reading comprehension. Let's review:
I never said I needed to lose 40lbs of fat. I need to lose 40lbs. (Of WEIGHT) Big difference.
I don't think NROL is crap. Please show me where I said it was.
Should you wish to follow my success you are welcome to, I started a log here...
http://forums.lylemcdonald.com/showt...7277#post37277
I learned a huge amount from NROL. I think there are certain parts of the book that could be better. Specifically:
1) Suggesting one can increase their metabolism via EPOC and engaging the flux capacitor are crap IMO. Gaining lean mass will increase your metabolism but so will carrying around a 30 pound backpack everywhere you go. Everything else I've read on the topic says at best you can hope to burn an additional 25-50 calories TOTAL the few hours after a hard workout. Quite a bit different than what the book implys. The resident expert on fat loss here is one of my sources on this subject. Please read post #4.
NROL: Effective?
2) The diet section which is very thin. Of course it is not a dieting book so I can excuse this.
3) The small amount of time they spend on the form of squat and deadlift. In their own words these are two of the most important lifts their programs are built around and also the easiest to injure oneself but IN MY OPINION they do not spend nearly enough time ensuring readers will follow correct form on these lifts.