The Fastest Way to Burn Fat or Build Muscle

If you go on a diet and that’s all you do, chances are you’ll gain back most of the weight you lost from the diet in the first place.

Dieting is not the fastest way to burn fat. When you diet, you restrict calories (usually a lot of calories). While the does create a calorie deficit it’s not an effective strategy for burning body fat.

When you create a calorie deficit from diet only, you not only burn fat the fat from your body but you also burn muscle. A lot of muscle. Muscle is metabolically active, meaning that muscle, just by its existence burns calories twenty four hours a day.

So when you create a calorie deficit from diet alone, you lower your overall metabolic rate, meaning you’d have to eat even fewer calories to continue losing weight. This is one main reason so many people who go on a diet are unable to sustain that weight loss.

They can’t continue to restrict their calories that much.

Add to that the fact that their metabolism is now lowered, meaning when they do start eating regularly they pile on the body fat even faster than they did originally.

Yet now, they are in an even worse situation then when they started the diet.

Because they lost a lot of muscle while dieting and added back a lot of fat, they now have a lower metabolism and they look worse because they are carrying more body fat and less muscle mass.

Clearly dieting is not the way to go when looking for the fastest way to burn fat and keep it off long term.

Is aerobics or weigh training the way to go?

Yes and no. If you start doing aerobics, you’ll burn calories. But, like the dieting only program for burning body fat, if that’s all you do, some of the weight you lose will be muscle, causing all the problems mentioned above with regard to a dieting only program.

Besides that, if you don’t control your eating, the aerobics you are doing may not be enough to cause a calorie deficit, meaning you may not lose any weight.

You may even gain weight, although at a slower pace than if you weren’t doing the aerobics.

Weight training is a step up from dieting or aerobics. Why?

Because with weight training, you will burn calories but you will also keep from losing muscle. This eliminates the problem of lowering your metabolism and changing your body composition in a negative way.

They problem is that you may not create a caloric deficit if you don’t get your nutrition program under control because you may be still eating too much.

There’s also the problem that, with a weight training program, your body needs high quality nutrition to run properly.

The fastest way to burn fat is to incorporate a proper nutrition program with a proper training program (both cardio and weight training) and put them together with the third component.

What’s the third component? It’s your mindset. You MUST have the proper mindset if you are going to burn body fat effectively and keep it off long term.

Not having the proper mindset is the biggest reason most people don’t reach their fat loss goals and quit before they succeed. Or the wrong mindset keeps them from every starting in the first place.

This is why you see the following at the top of this site:

• Training




• Nutrition
• Attitude

Your best chance of success for burning body fat and keeping it off is to combine these three components of fat loss. That’s the fastest way to burn fat. Or build muscle, for that matter.