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Old 01-16-2010, 10:16 AM
EricT EricT is offline
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Well how about you think about your future aspirations and goals and your goals for the near future and you use that to plan things?

Is it a good idea to do weight training while doing fatloss. Absolutely. But let's just change that to "strength training".

You may have doubts about it's importants but instead of getting into all of the physiological details of why look at your wants.

You want to lose the weight but you don't think it's necessary to strength training. Which means if you DO do strength training you're going to have a hard time planning it based on "just because I'm supposed to" unless you have a fatloss coach or something.

But you want to go into the military and you are concerned about the bodyweight exercises. It's not like they are going to have you do a gymnastics rings routine but what I would do is plan you strength training around improving those bodyweight things..pullups and pushups while losing the weight. And plan a basic strength maintainanence around that.

This way you have PERFORMANCE related goals for your strength and that will still serve the purpose of muscle retention, etc.

Now, just getting skinny with no strength training doesn't mean you'll be a pullup champion because you could actually lose most of your strength endurance.
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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.
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