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Posted by Mike Ramsey, SNS Nutrition on October 27, 19101 at 04:57:28:
In Reply to: Calories, calories, calories. posted by darren on October 24, 19101 at 00:40:10:
Sorry, but we don't currently ship outside the U.S. and Canada. Looking into it.
I don't think that further lowering your caloric intake will do anything other than lower your metabolism. You've already become very efficient at doing more and more work on fewer and fewer calories. Lower calories would simply eat up more muscle, as you have guessed.
Why not shift some of your cardio work to weights? You will only grow muscle if you have three essential elements-
(1) sufficient stress to stimulate growth, through lifting weights that cause failure in 8-10 reps.
(2) sufficient protein available (after fuel requirements) to build muscle.
(3) sufficient rest to grow the tissue
If you exercise to the point of losing weight, you are compromising the ability to grow muscle. If you exercise the same muscle with 48 hours, you limit its ability to repair and grow.
At this time, I would recommend that you keep your caloric intake constant, and shift one or two cardio workouts to weights (do shorter, high weight lifts).
The goal is to expend the same amount of energy per week, shifting to anaerobic work from aerobic.
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