Getting your body summer-ready is not just about losing weight. It’s about achieving a balanced and sculpted physique. Focusing solely on weight loss may result in muscle mass reduction. Muscles play an important role in supporting body strength and tone.
The Summer Body Mindset
When you think of a summer body, images of toned physiques, chiselled abs, and defined curves often come to mind. Some individuals aim to achieve a more toned physique during summer through diet and exercise.
However, this mindset can be harmful. Extreme dieting deprives your body of essential nutrients, while overtraining can lead to fatigue, injury, and muscle loss.
Medications such as Ozempic or other GLP1 medications do significantly reduce weight. However, 40% of the weight loss is due to loss of muscle mass. This makes you weaker and makes it harder to keep the fat off. In addition, we lose 10% of muscle every decade; after 60, it is almost impossible to put on muscle.
Emsculpt NEO is an excellent tool for building muscle by 25% while reducing fat by 30%. So now, you can lose weight and build muscle simultaneously!
Muscle Preservation vs. Fat Reduction
Maintaining lean muscle is critical for achieving a defined, sculpted appearance, as muscle shapes the body and boosts metabolism. However, many fail to preserve muscle as they lose fat because they focus solely on extreme calorie restriction and excessive cardio. These activities lead to muscle breakdown and muscle loss.
Protein intake, strength training, and balanced nutrition support muscle mass, especially when pursuing fat reduction. Thus, prioritising muscle preservation and fat reduction ensures you maintain muscle tone and strength as you enhance your physique.
7 Effective Fat Reduction Strategies That Protect Your Muscle Mass
1. Seek Non-Invasive Body Sculpting Treatments
20,000 muscle crunches in one session? That’s a workout you can’t muscle through on your own! But with cutting-edge body sculpting techniques like Emsculpt Neo, you can achieve that perfect summer body effortlessly and pain-free. Emsculpt Neo is done through 4-6 sessions, at 30 minutes per session. This non-invasive treatment maintains and enhances muscle tone while simultaneously reducing fat. Increase your muscle by 25% and reduce fat by 30%!
2. Embrace HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training)
HIIT is a time-efficient workout that alternates short bursts of intense routines and brief recovery times. HIIT improves cardio fitness and accelerates fat loss while preserving muscle mass.
HIIT burns fat faster because it increases metabolic rate during and after exercise through Excess Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption (EPOC); this means the body continues to burn calories hours after a workout. HIIT also supports fat loss while maintaining lead muscle.
3. Incorporate Fasting for Fat Loss
Intermittent fasting is an approach to fat loss that involves cycling between periods of eating and fasting. It allows the body to burn stored fat for energy. When done correctly, intermittent fasting can accelerate fat reduction while preserving lean muscle mass, promoting metabolic efficiency.
4. Leverage Smart Nutrition & Meal Timing
Smart nutrition and strategic meal timing can help maximise fat burning and support muscle recovery. Fueling your body with the right nutrients at the right time enhances energy and accelerates fat loss.
5. Reduce Refined Sugars and Processed Carbs
Reducing refined sugars and processed carbohydrates is important for sustainable fat loss. These foods can lead to rapid blood sugar and insulin spikes, promoting fat storage, especially in the abdominal area. Reducing sugar stabilises blood sugar levels, improves insulin sensitivity, and helps your body burn stored fat for energy.
6. Use Natural Fat-Burning Foods
Natural fat-burning foods can help you boost metabolism, reduce fat, and provide nutrients for overall health. These foods increase thermogenesis, improving satiety and enhancing the body’s ability to burn fat for energy.
7. Include Low-Impact Cardio
Low-impact cardio exercises are great for burning fat while reducing joint stress and injury risk. Here are effective low-impact fat-burning workout routines you can perform to help you lose weight:
Dr Refresh’s advanced body sculpting treatments use the latest technology to remove stubborn fat, tone muscles, and enhance body shape. These treatments can complement your fitness routines and nutrition plans, giving you visible results safely and effectively.
How Dr Refresh’s Body Sculpting Treatments Get You Summer Body Ready
Body sculpting through our Emsculpt NEO treatment is a non-surgical treatment that shapes and tones the body by reducing stubborn fat and tightening muscles. This treatment uses advanced technology to create a more defined and contoured appearance.
Learn more about body sculpting and how it may support your fitness goals. Schedule a consultation with Dr Ritu or her specialist clinical staff for a personalised assessment to discuss your fitness and body contouring goals. Call the Dr Refresh team to book a consultation at (02) 8014 6505 or click to book online.
