While cutting...why weight train?

[IJ26]

It has been proven many times that while lifting and dieting muscle is preserved compared to when you just use diet and cardio. Its also proven that after a weight lifting session you BMR is raised for an extended period of time after the workout. It is better for you than just plodding along on the treadmill for 40 minutes. Someone here has to have the studies hopefully they post them.

 

[overhead]

Excess protein can be converted to glucose. On a keto diet you should keep fat grams equal or geater than protein. I did this by adding olive oil or flaxseed oil to my protein shakes and eating higher fat red meat. Olive oil was great for me, I like the stuff, I can drink 3 or 4 tbsps at a time out of the bottle. I have to do that in private though, most people think it is disgusting .

 

[KWKSLVR]

Well, also too - I think that you don't see the insulin spikes on a diet like this like you would when consuming both simple and complex carbs. Overhead is right though, the fat is very important.

Protein in excess amounts can throw some people out of ketosis.

 

[lamp24]

weight train to keep muscle mass " if you dont use it you lose it"....excess protein can knock you out of ketosis so be careful...

 

[eXplicit]

IMHO

IMHO I think that you should eat almost ALL protein while cutting. That is what I have been doing for four months and I went from 6'6 215 to 6'6 203 and am MUCH stronger than I was previously. I went from love handles to a slightly defined 6-pack, and have increased size and strength in all parts of my body (I'm talkin going from benching 240 to 270). I am doing this for basketball and my vert has increased 6 inches easily, because I went from basic dunks to being able to do reverses. Anyway, I believe that eating mostly protein, with a few carbs, EATING EARLY in the day and cutting sugars is the way to cut... without losing very much muscle if not gaining it.

 

[PancakeFiend]

heh heh, overhead... if people think that's disgusting i pop fish oil capsules, drain them into a shot glass, add some water, and down the hatch it goes...

 

[overhead]

I could see consuming that much protein as long as your activity level was high. Playing ball a couple times a week would burn most excess off. But.....if on a keto diet *some* people are unable to stay in ketosis eating that much protein. I sure wish I could

PancakeFiend you may have me beat there. I can take the tablets, but I am not sure I could just drink the oil. My girlfriend has to leave the room before I drink the olive oil or she will throw, if I told her I was drinking fish oil she might have to leave the house for a while .

 

[the nature boy]

heh heh, overhead... if people think that's disgusting i pop fish oil capsules, drain them into a shot glass, add some water, and down the hatch it goes...

why not save money and purchase fish oil in a bottle?

 

[PancakeFiend]

can't find it at drug stores/grocery, plus i'd rather get my oil right away instead of buying it online. The only stuff i can find is flavored cod liver oil.