195: 3 Easy Ways to Eliminate a Skinny-Fat Body Type
Get Leaner & Live Longer
Nate Palmer
4.9 • 300 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast episode of the Low Carb Hustle talk about being "skinny fat", the condition where someone appears normal in clothes but has excess fat when shirtless, lacking muscle mass and definition. I'll talk about how to avoid it or even how to reverse it. Muscle mass is paramount for overall health but when we have the "skinny fat" situation some people have the common dilemma of whether to bulk or cut for skinny fat individuals. I'll cover key concepts such as the metabolic outcomes of weight loss, the drawbacks of deep cutting, and the pitfalls of bulking without sensitivity to muscle gain. I suggest a nutrition framework called carb backloading and emphasize the significance of finding the right balance of carbohydrates rather than completely eliminating them.
[00:00 - 6:00]
What is "skinny fat"?
What "skinny fat" is in terms of aesthetics
What "skinny fat" is in terms health, muscle mass, and injury prevention
Bulking vs Cutting when you're "skinny fat"
[6:00 - 18:00]
The dark side of "The Biggest Loser"
How sustainable is it: cut vs bulk
A couple of ways you can fix this issue for the rest of your life.
Training our body to use carbs at the right time
Reverse-pyramid style training
Adding cardio
Fasting
[18:00 - 21:35]
Forcing your body will build results that won't last
You have to work WITH your body, rather than against it
Grab your free 5 Day Meal Plan at: thelowcarbhustle.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever heard about being skinny fat? |
| 0:02.4 | You felt like maybe that applied to you? |
| 0:05.2 | Well, what is skinny fat technically? |
| 0:07.8 | And how can we avoid it or even reverse it? |
| 0:10.9 | That's what we're going to get into in this podcast episode. |
| 0:13.6 | We're going to talk a little bit about the causes of being skinny fat, |
| 0:16.5 | what that actually means, |
| 0:18.0 | and a couple simple ways that we've identified |
| 0:20.4 | that you can go from skinny fat to lean and mean. |
| 0:23.6 | You're listening to the low-carb hustle podcast, |
| 0:25.6 | hoping you're a million-dollar body. |
| 0:26.8 | I'm Nate Palmer, |
| 0:27.9 | and I'm going to coach since 2008 |
| 0:29.6 | and have helped over 1,100 people |
| 0:31.4 | transform their health and fitness. |
| 0:33.1 | My mission is simple, |
| 0:34.0 | to make it very easy for you to wake up every single day, |
| 0:36.5 | feeling lean, strong, and energetic. |
| 0:39.4 | So if you're ready to dive into hearing a little bit of skinny fat |
| 0:42.0 | and some of the key concepts |
| 0:43.6 | that are going to eliminate that for life, |
| 0:45.6 | we'll stick around. |
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