Lowering body fat as quickly as possible

i suppose you could try other machines such as the bicycle or rowing machine or other cardio equipment .
but one thing still ntrigues me..... why do u want to shed so much body fat in so little time???

At 900 calories you're not going to have much energy for any kind of workout.

Get your carbs from very low on the Glycemic Index, and keep up the cardio.

And lay off the Crimbo, whatever that is. :)

Hehe! Crimbo = Christmas!

I wanna lose the bodyfat quickly, as I will get fined for having an increase over xmas! + I feel very uncomfortable and don't look the same - even though I am still not fat, or even chubby. :(

So low glycemic carbs are presumably noodles, pasta, rice, etc?

Be carefull of aiming to body fat at such a low percentage. When it goes below 6.5% you may find become overtrained easily and get ill due to the lack of fat soluble minerals. Between 8-10% is low and healthy.

Regards,

Mark

My #1 point: DONT BE IN SUCH A RUSH. Do you have a contest of some sort coming up? All goals in fitness and perfrormance should be taken slowly (2-3 lbs per week is ideal). I know this because I myself am preparing for a photo shoot in the next few weeks and getting down to that low bf% is tough.

Cardio: Depending on what sort of resistance training you do, I usually do anywhere from 35-50 minutes of constant aerobic training 3-4x per week. But it all depends on the type/amount of weight-training.

Diet: 900 kcals is nothing. Up the calories and increase activity level. As said earlier, eat low GI carbs and veggies. A low-fat diet with healthy carbs is an excellent way to go.

Are you saying below 10% is not reccommended? Won't comment furthur until you clarify...

1,800-2000Kcal - this is a very generalised amount is it not. Surely this will depend on BMR, daily activity levels, metabolism, age etc etc.

I think he is saying going from 10 - 4% is not recommended. I would agree that below 8% is a little dangerous unless you really know what you are doing, and I may be wrong, but the initial poster doesn't fit that category I'd say

I think you should look at your emotional issues of why you want a body fat of under 5% before you address anything else.

ah ok, get it now.

Totally agree, i've been there and it was horrible :shock:

Totally off the issue of the origional poster but it is possible to maintain sub 8% naturally without too much difficulty if you are in the right game :wink:

Maintaining a low body fat percentage for a long time will be very difficult especially when you want to make progress with training to make progress with competition. Maybe it would be better to cycle low body fat percentage at given periods in a training year. So there is no need to have such low body fat when in heavy training phases as want to recover. But then can start to lose body fat as you get closer to competition.

You will see athletic athletes doing this. They maybe have a little excess weight which would not be there in competition phases but will lose it when getting closer to competitions. Trying to train hard and maintain low body weight/fat is going to be hard. I dont know how low some of the athletes body fat percentages are and if they go as low as 8%.