Re: Tabata Training for Self Defense by Damian Ross

[Young Wang]

Hmm, I think it must have something to do with your body craving more calories to support muscular growth since your body fat levels are low enough to the point where your body doesn’t want to burn any more. Even if you ate enough to undo all the calories you burned off, more muscle makes YOU look leaner since your body fat PERCENTAGE is going DOWN even if your body fat LEVELS, in actual lbs, stay the SAME. My point was that people who aren’t quite there yet, are significantly overweight with simply too many lbs of body fat need to pay at least some conscious attention to eating LESS CALORIES, otherwise there’s no way they can make much progress no matter how much they exercise. There’s only so much muscle ANYONE can build and it’s pointless if it’s being covered up by layers and layers of fat. But I will say that for people with a LOT to LOSE, the Mod 7 BODYWEIGHT circuits are going to make you NATURALLY crave a lot LESS if you’re training hard. Especially by the time you work up to max reps and sets with perfect form for Circuit 5.