The BEST Way To LOSE Weight. NO CARDIO & NO OBSESSIVE DIETS!

strength training is the best way to get lean watch this all right our next caller is maddie from washington maddie what's happening how can we help you hi guys thanks so much for having me on this is so exciting um so i thought i'd start with a little background and then i'll ask my question so i'm 25 years old in the last year i've lost about 40 pounds um and i'm trying to move from weight loss to just gaining more strength and uh i before have been doing about five days in the gym with about 30 minutes of cardio and 20 minutes of just trying different machines not anything super serious um and i have a trainer who's been trying to help me get into more strength training and she says the same thing that you guys do a lot which is stop all of that cardio and lift more um and i just my question is how will i not gain weight i know it it makes logical sense but i don't know why it makes sense and so i just want to know why will i not gain weight by cutting out that cardio and just lifting more and then also i'd love some just pointers on moving from trying just different machines to like actually getting stronger okay so you said it makes logical sense what makes logical sense about it i guess maybe not logical sense but every time i i've been listening to your podcast my trainer recommended it a few weeks ago and i'm like okay yeah you guys seem to believe this and you guys seem to give really great grounded advice and i want to believe you but i'm just not sure why okay okay so you're a new listener okay so okay so let me i'll i'll do the simplified kind of version explanation you can burn calories manually okay so you can move by burning calories um but your body also burns calories on its own that's your that's what your metabolism is okay and there's a lot of room with where your metabolism can go we can your metabolism can become more efficient or less efficient and that can become a big number and that's a number that will happen on its own so think of your metabolism in this particular context is how many calories your body burns automatically and then you got the manual side of how many calories you want to burn by moving the reason why you don't want to rest your laurels on the i gotta move more side of the equation is for two reasons one you don't burn that many calories when you move okay so i know people like oh you got to move more burn more calories it's not that much an hour of really hard exercise will burn you maybe 400 calories i know that you know the machines at the gym but they're full of crap it's like 400 calories maybe 400 calories i mean that's a lot of work to burn something that you could eat in 10 minutes right what if we could teach your metabolism to burn 400 more calories on its own in other words sitting on the couch just just doing your your daily life right the way you do that is you move towards building muscle is you feed your body appropriately and in through the process of building muscle not just having more muscle because more muscle does burn more calories but also telling your body it doesn't need to be as efficient with calories that will make your metabolism move in the direction of faster so that and i've taken many people i've taken you know young ladies like yourself and gotten them to burn 800 more calories a day through a faster metabolism for example that's not way out of the ballpark of of reasonable by the way so you can do this by teaching your metabolism to burn more calories it's a much more sustainable approach otherwise you're stuck with i gotta do all this cardio i gotta keep moving to keep my body where it's at and then on top of that cardio teaches the body to become more efficient with calories and it does this by pairing muscle down and because it's a calorie intensive form of activity that doesn't require much strength and so you'll see over time that you actually start to your metabolism actually starts to quote unquote slow down through that process i wrote a book called the resistance training revolution i think it explains it i break it down it's very easy to understand i think that would do you a lot of good i think that would help you really understand this process now as far as your workouts are concerned if you're working with a trainer that understands strength training i would listen to them they're telling you to listen to the podcast they probably use our philosophy to train i would i would have the trainers tell them look okay i want to do strength training i want to get stronger i want to trust the process show up and then do those workouts and then watch what happens and what'll happen is you're gonna the scale isn't gonna move but you're gonna get this kind of snowball effect and as your metabolism kicks up you're gonna find it easier and easier to maintain leanness and or you'll actually get leaner and it's gonna feel much more effortless keep this in mind keep this in mind too most people that are exercising uh are doing it to shape their body or to get in better shape lose body fat lean out get this figure that they're trying to obtain uh cardio does not do that weight training is the only way for you to sculpt your body you you can lose weight and body fat can come off but you're not going to shape your body you're not going to make your hip to waist ratio look better you're not going to make your butt sit up and be more perkier you're not going to make your arms look more defined and sculpted that is all from lifting weights literally that is all and you can keep your weight exactly where it's your body weight exactly where it's at and completely alter the way your body looks by lifting weights you cannot do that with cardboard maddie uh muscle is is very dense and it takes up i don't know something like a little more than three-fourths of the space that body fat does for the same amount of weight so in other words if you lost 10 pounds of body fat and gain 10 pounds of muscle you would weigh the same on the scale but you would look very different okay so so keep that all in mind but i do highly suggest you read uh the resistance training revolution very i wrote it for the average person and i kind of break it down it'll make sense and it's backed by studies i put some really interesting studies in there and then of course the way i explain it i think it'll make sense to you and it'll really help you make this mental transition with your exercise because you're in a very common place people lose the weight through trying to move a lot and cut their calories and then they get to this place where they're kind of like it's unsustainable or plateau like what do i do from here um you know if we can get your metabolism to just burn more calories i mean how much easier will it be for you to maintain this for the rest of your life right you're at a very exciting place right now getting somebody who has primarily done cardio to get in shape most their life and i get a hold of them and i introduce training strength training to them it's a good time oh yeah get ready to get your mind on the trainer into things i do have a great trainer i can only meet with her about once a month for 30 minutes though as part of a membership and otherwise i'm kind of uh got it i'm trying to get my husband through law school oh no worries i'm going to send you a program then i'm going to send you let me send you um how's your movement i mean you're pretty young you could do like a squat and you you can squat down body weight and all that stuff right you don't have any mobility issues how about resistance training i would do uh yeah yeah let me send you maps resistance and start with that and get the book so get get the book from him or get his book so you can read it and then follow map's resistance which was designed to complement that that'll be your workout and just follow that okay yep sweet all right awesome thanks for calling thank you so much guys keep listening to the podcast it'll make more sense as you listen it's a lot it's a conversation it's not something you can understand in just one right one sound bites can explain it all yeah well it's been great so far from conspiracy theories to just miss myself yeah my people all right the lizard people want us to be fat yeah all right thanks maddie thanks guys right right bye-bye hey you know it's cool uh getting a new listener who hasn't because i mean we talk about that so much on the show that i assume yeah someone calls in yeah they know our answer already so much but i'm glad you know she's a new listener she called in because uh it's going to blow her mind i mean when you make the transition from i need to burn all this and i can't eat to wow i could teach my body oh it's and then you and then you start to do it and then the snowball affects that because you know when you do tons of card and you cut your calories you get that initial fast weight loss and then you get that hard plateau with what we talk about it feels like a slower start but then the snowball effect starts to happen that's the biggest psychological challenge and then you're in this place where you're like this is i love i used to love hearing this from clients that come see me be like sal this is so weird how am i getting leaner i don't understand and i can eat more yeah this doesn't make any sense like what's going on i'm like you're working with your body and this is now you're finding the sustainable lifelong approach i mean katrina was the last person for me to give that mind-blowing advice to i mean i remember watching her going from the person who every time she put on an extra 5 or 10 pounds she went straight to the road and ran for an hour two hours at a time and then ran the calories off and it was this back and forth battle and she always had and she was constantly struggling with keeping her weight where she liked it and fast forward years later of us dating and she's like i am so mad all these years that i thought this was like i i put less effort less time my body is the best it's ever been i can eat more than i've ever ate before it's way less effort into exercising she's like you're not a slave to the treadmill anymore oh my god it's like it is it's the secret sauce once you put that's why she's an exciting place right now if that's how she's gotten in shape most of her life introducing strength training terms oh yeah [Music] you