Inner Circle – Determining Daily Calorie Needs (Step 3)
Posted by Brad Campbell
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Jan, 2010
Step 3 for New Inner Circle Members…by Brad Campbell
If you’re new to the Inner Circle community, this is step 3 of my easy-to-follow start-up process. In this step, we’ll be determining your daily calorie needs, selecting the appropriate fat loss diet plan (or lean muscle building meal plan) to start with, and figuring out how much fat you can expect to lose (or how much muscle you’ll gain) each week.
If you haven’t completed steps 1 and 2 yet, please do them first —> Step 1 Getting Started Checklist, then Step 2 Baseline Assessment and then return here to finish step 3.
As you know, the absolute most important piece of the equation – whether you want to lose fat as fast as humanly possible or build lean muscle without adding body fat – is your diet plan. I estimate that diet is responsible for about 85% of your body transformation results.
The good thing is, when you follow the ideal diet plan, and combine this with advanced workouts, the results become synergistic (both of them done together produce far greater results than you’d see if you just did diet or exercise alone).
To put it another way, if you were going to screw up on one aspect of your fitness plan…diet would not be the one you’d want to goof up. It’s impossible to build muscle, tone up or burn fat without closely following a diet that is designed for those specific results.
However, if your diet was perfect and you screwed up the workouts, you may still see decent results (because diet is that important). BUT, if you put both pieces together and work them at the same time, LOOK OUT.
When both the diet and workouts are dialed in (and especially when they’re advanced and highly optimized to produce fast results, like I’ve designed for you here in the IC)…you can really improve your body composition quickly.
Also, I need to point out that while I sling around the term “diet” rather loosely, I really do hate that word. I use it because that is what the general public is used to hearing and so for the sake of everyone being on the same page, I use the term “diet” to refer to what and how you’re eating.
I do NOT use it to mean a restrictive, fad-type diet (i.e. Atkins diet, grapefruit diet, liquid diets, etc). Ridiculous, hard-to-follow, highly restrictive fad diets NEVER work, at least not in the long run. And I’m not a believer in making my clients deprive themselves by following a crazy diet scheme that takes away everything they enjoy.
I would rather refer to how and what you’re eating as a “nutrition plan,” but some people get confused and aren’t even sure what the hell that is (lol). So, I cave and use “diet” when talking about eating in general, capisce? Awesome, now let’s determine exactly how many calories you should be eating daily, so we can select your fat loss meal plan.
Whether you’re going to be calculating your needs for fat loss, maintenance or muscle building, please keep in mind that these equations are rough estimates. It’s important to follow the body composition analysis outlined in step 2, so we can monitor your progress and adjust calories when needed.
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Determining Your Daily Calorie Needs for Maximum Fat Loss:
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Click here to continue —> Step 4 – Optimizing Your Supplement Strategy
Your Coach,
Brad Campbell
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