The Truth About Mike Geary’s Abs is not a bodybuilding book and doing resistance training (aka weights) will NEVER lead to muscle gain while on a diet. And sadly, if you’ve fooled yourself into thinking you can gain muscle and lose fat at the same time, that won’t happen either. Beginners may gain a few pounds of muscle (typically 2-3 pounds) when they start training, but the purpose of resistance training is as follows:
- Maintain your LBM (lean body mass). LBM is what gives you your metabolism. If you want to burn calories, you must preserve your muscle mass (this includes your heart, lungs, organs, skeleton, skin, etc.). Your body fat doesn’t burn calories, but muscle does.
- Increase your calories burned. A well-structured exercise program based on interval or resistance training of any kind will burn calories quickly and efficiently. Many times better than biking or running.
- Make You Feel Great: Honestly, being good at resistance training is a life-changing event for many. You will be surprised how much stronger you feel. The stronger and fitter you feel, the more likely you are to make a real difference with your weight.
Here’s the thing: You can’t gain weight while following Mike Geary’s The Truth About Abs because you’re eating a caloric deficit. If you follow the plans laid out in Mike Geary’s e-books, you’ll eat enough but not too much. As long as this is the case, resistance training is just priming your metabolism, burning fat, and helping you get a leaner, stronger physique. The other key to setting yourself up to burn fat with resistance training is to eat the right amounts of protein while you exercise. Protein is not only necessary to preserve your lean body during your diet, but it also satiates your appetite. More than any other macronutrient, protein is the appetite killer. Imagine eating 5 egg whites and 2 egg yolks in the morning with toast. Your plate will be full of food and you will feel full for hours. The kicker is that this high-protein meal will be under 500 calories! Add some veggies along with this breakfast and you’ll be eating something that’s not only nutritious for your health, filling you up (so you’ll NEVER feel hungry) but also helps you lose that stubborn belly fat.
In short, the key, the real “SECRET” to all of this is proper exercise (not just blindly exercising, but focusing and doing the right exercises) and sensible eating (not starving yourself but eating the right KINDS of food). ).
