Racing Weight: Lose Weight or Lose Fat?
- By Matt Fitzgerald
- Published Jul. 27, 2011
- Updated Jul. 27, 2011 at 11:27 AM UTC
Not all weight loss is good weight loss.
Written by: Matt Fitzgerald
When a person says she wants to lose five or ten pounds, it’s understood that she means five pounds of fat, not five pounds of muscle, bone mass, or body water. But when the typical dieter loses five or ten pounds, barely half of that weight is fat. The other half is, in fact, muscle, bone mass, and body water.
Losing weight is not as good as losing fat. If you lose five or ten pounds of mixed fat mass and lean body mass, your health, appearance, and endurance performance will not improve as much as they will if you lose an equal amount of pure fat.
Here are some tips to ensure that any and all weight you lose in pursuit of your ideal racing weight is body fat.
Related Video: Check out Matt’s Racing Weight series on CompetitorTV.com
FILED UNDER: Racing Weight TAGS: Body Fat Percentage / Cutting Calories / performance nutrition. weight loss / strength training
