A little bit on fat loss

After looking at my training philosophy many people will ask me this,"Brett, can your methods be used for losing fat or for weight loss?" I always laugh a little, but the truth is people just can't see how training with powerlifting, Olympic lifting, Strongman, Kettlebell, and gymnastic methods with some sprinting thrown in can lead to dropping the fat. Especially when I don't tell people to count calories, or cut calories.

So, no cutting calories, no wasted hours of aerobic based training, just strength training and sprinting mixed in with intelligent eating. Can it work?

I could bore you with the details of literally hundreds of testimonials from my clients about the amount of fat they've dropped, or I could put you into a nice slumber talking about the science behind why these methods work. But I'm not going to.

Instead I'm just going to use myself as an example.

A few months ago I weighed in at a pretty powerful 191.5 pounds. Currenlty I"m weighing in at a pretty lean and bad ass 172.0 pounds. That's a 19.5 pound drop in weight.

While that alone may not be anything to write home about, you have to stop and think about the fact that I haven't tried to lose weight at all.

Let me repeat that, I'm currenlty down almost 20 poudnds without even trying to lose weight.

Instead I've been up-ing my caloric intake from between 2,500 to 3,000 calories a day to 3,500 to 4,000 calories a day. I train 5 days a week for between 20-40 minutes at a time. Four of those sessions are pure strength building sessions with the fifth being a rope skip sprinting session.

Yet, I'm still down almost 20 pounds.

The only dietary changes that I've made, aside from adding calories and eating more, is the macro-nutrient ratio and the nutrient timing of my food.

The only training changes that I've made is to add a little more emphasis on pure strength development.

So, if someone can use my methods and drop the weight without trying to, without the mindless hours on the treadmill-to-nowehre or the stationary bike, and without cutting any calories (but actually adding them); do you think they'll work for someone that's purposfully training to drop the weight?

You bet your ass they will.

Talk wtih you more later.

Yours in strength and health,
Brett Stepan