If You’re A Thin Person With A Belly, Here’s How You Can Get A Muscular Body.

How can a person be thin AND have a belly?

What is this skinny fat you are talking about?

I thought people are either skinny or fat, not skinny and fat!

I know, I know, but people can be a combination of thin and fat too – it’s just not visible to us under the clothes. Most skinny fat people look like –

It basically means that –

1. You have fat around your midsection.

2. There is little or no fat anywhere else.

3. And that’s where all the fat is going and you wonder why.

The popular term for this is “being skinny fat” and it is not good for you in the long run.

Because –

1. Fat just around the belly is linked to diabetes, inflammatory diseases and insulin resistance.

2. It also is a cause of hight blood pressure and heart diseases.

For a long time people took weight as an indicator of fitness, but then scientists came across a phenomenon called Obesity paradox, where obese people outlived thin and skinny people. Scientists probed this problem and found out that having fat around the belly is just as bad as being obese and overweight, because the diseases were linked to both the body types.

But do not fret, because there are efficient ways you can gain muscles and end the problem once and for all.
But before we go through the solution we will look at the probable causes that have led you to have a skinny fat body.

1. You did too much cardio.

Too much cardio strips away muscles that are not used, and that is the reason marathon runners and cyclists look so thin. While they benefit from it and are incredibly athletic, we end up being thin and fat.

 

2. You eat a lot of sugar and processed food

Sugar and processed food goes straight to your gut. Nowhere else.

 

3. You do not eat protein rich food at all

Proteins are essential to build and maintain muscles.

4. You don’t lift at all, or lift very light weights

Lifting light weights is also not really a good thing, because you are achieving nothing by it.

But hey, one thing is very easy for you – the solution for getting out of being skinny fat is the same. Because if you were fat, 10 people recommend 10 different weight loss tips, and you end up being confused. But the path to stop being skinny fat is straight and the two absolutely basic tips are – 1. Eat a lot

1. Eat a lot

2. Lift weights

These two basic tips have to be broken down too. Because eating a lot of anything at all will make you fat, and lifting too much can cause injuries, so here are the tips you can use to get out of being skinny fat FOREVER –

1. Start the day and every meal with protein (eggs, nuts, chicken, fish, nuts, pulses and legumes)

Eat well, and incorporate protein into every meal to make it more nutritious. You need to make your meals as nutritious as possible.

 

2. No soft drinks at all – drinkable calories are your worst enemy

It’s real – drinkable calories. Drinkable calories are the worst thing you can put inside your body.

 

3. No processed flour

Processed flour is bad for your gut. Use whole wheat flour instead. Whole wheat flour is better for digestion and is richer in nutrients.

 

4. Keep track of your measurements

This the best way you can keep track of your progress. Measure your waist periodically and keep a detailed log. And if the measurements increase, do not lose heart! Work at it anyway.

 

5. Keep doing your cardio, but reduce the time for which you do it and make it tougher

Do not stop doing cardio altogether. Cardio is fine, but reduce the duration and try to make it harder than it is. For example, if you jog regularly, jog up a slope – it will burn calories faster.

 

6. Do interval training if you do not like lifting weights

Interval training basically means varying the intensity at which you do the workouts. For example, if you do push-ups, and interval training would look something like this –

1. 10 pushups – easily done.
2. 1-minute rest
3. 20 pushups – faster this time
4. 30-second rest
5. 50 pushups – high intensity
6. 10-second rest
7. 20 pushups
8. Rest.

 

7. Be very cautious while lifting weights because skinny fat people recover slowly

The major disadvantage of being skinny fat is that the body fails to recover quickly after injuries – because it is not fit. And since exercises are nothing but undergoing micro-injuries, do not push yourself too much.

 

8. And that’s why, get good sleep too

Sleep is your best companion for recovery. Remember that just working out does not build muscle. You need to rest too. Most of the muscle is built during the time you sleep.

 

9. Work out every day. No exceptions at all.

You are skinny fat because you were too soft on yourself for too long. It is time that you made your body fit. And now, the only way you can do it is the hard way. And that means working out every day without fail – that is, when you get your sufficient sleep.

 

10. Get a good bulk of muscles and then think about cutting fat

Once you build muscles, you will automatically look better. Bigger muscles mean more fat burnt. After this stage, fat burning isn’t a big deal anymore.

There will come a time when you will feel good about yourself, because a fit body does make you feel good.

The real work actually starts here – because being fit is a task you have for life. You have to keep working on it – every day for years and years.

Here’s to bigger muscles and lesser fat!

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