Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle: The Simple, Proven System of Fat Burning for Permanent Weight Loss, Rock-Hard Muscle and a Turbo-Charged Metabolism

I found this for free on Audible and though why not give it a listen. I had been doing cardio religiously for hours at a time with no success. I'm not starting with an overweight body but a weight that's considered normal and healthy but the composition is what bothers me. My middle section is where I suffer from fat accumulation. I have tried keto, carnivore and like I said HOURS of cardio, none of this touched my midsection. After learning that I needed to do resistance training to get the body I want I listened and got to work. This is a game changing book. I see some 3-star reviews complaining about protein emphasis or incompatible diets, but look, meat is the most complete protein source available to humans. If you refuse it then you need to work harder to understand how to take incomplete plant based protein sources and use them effectively if you really want to make it work. Otherwise your complaints should be directed and yourself for choosing that diet. I for one and absolutely happy with the results I've gotten in just 2 weeks! I'm in the beginner gains Honeymoon but Tom Venuto spends several chapters to troubleshoot stalled fat loss. If you could do one thing for yourself READ THIS BOOK and actually try to apply the strategies. You will be amazed at what you get out. 1000% happy with the info and thats why I'm also buying the book. This is not a diet plan or an easy strategy to get results super fast, its a lifestyle change that requires you to be dedicated. If you aren't willing to learn or be disciplined with your eating and workouts then it won't work. Its that simple. If you fail its not Tom Venuto who made you fail, you made you fail.

Tom Venuto's Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle is an excellent fat-burning and muscle building program. No fad diets here... just a simple to understand and easy to follow plan. How do you get good at something? Try imitating people who are really successful at it. In this case, body builders. Calculate your own calorie needs and understand macro nutrients. Take control of your fuel intake and energy needs.

All you need to know re optimal body composition through lifting, eating healthy, having the right attitude etc.Excellent read!

I've bought both the physical as well as the kindle version.I first read the ebook version of "Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle" in 2006. I've also got Tom's other 'physical' book, "Body Fat Solution'. I'm now excited to read a totally revised and updated version of the ebook Tom wrote 10 years ago. The core principles remain, but everything has been refined, updated, re-jigged and made even more accessable than ever to the average man or woman who wants to get in shape.One of the things I love the most is that Tom Venuto takes both an, (a) scientific, and (b) a real-world experience approach. This is incredibly important. A lack of appreciation for, and understanding of, the scientific evidence leads to the plethora of whacky diet books that fill the shelves, and that desperate dieters buy.However, there is also an 'paralysis by analysis' that can occur when someone starts reading the scientific research themselves (or starts following one of the 'evidence-based' weight loss guys). The solution? Take on board the science, but also look at what has worked in real life, human experience. And, that's exactly what Tom (as both an educated fitness expert and a real world body builder) does. What is interesting is that, over time, many of the academic studies have given good proof to various age-old body builder practices. You don't have to wait for everything to be proved to get started!Another thing I love; the old phenomenon of it being so rare to find someone who has the combination of expert knowledge, the experience of a real-world practitioner, AND has the ability to teach (and not just teach, but coach) is not true here. Tom has the lot, with an engaging style to boot. Being a trainer has also kept Tom from the "curse of knowledge" that is sometimes true of experts (where they forget what it is like to be brand new, and therefore can no longer relate).Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle has everything you need to know to finally start losing weight (oops, I mean 'fat') effectively & permanently. That's not an empty statement. I take great encouragement from knowing that thousands of people have already used this plan to achieve great success.One of the key things to also note, is that this is NOT JUST A BOOK FOR BODYBUILDERS or even those who only have a "physique first" goal. Tom has written this book for everyone. That's the whole point. He takes the 'secrets' of the bodybuilding world (because, as mentioned, they work!) and makes them applicable to a real world, modern day, average person. Any 'advanced techniques' are kept to the back of the book.Tom doesn't neglect the mental side of things. He addresses goals and mind frame in some of the most important chapters of the book.There is enough 'education' in this book to keep a reader who likes to know the ins and outs (like me), happy. But it is also fast paced enough, and a very comfortable read for anyone to dive into. In fact, within the first couple of chapters, Tom gives you the exact chapters to skip to in order to get started right away (literally, "with your very next meal!") - which you could certainly do, and then come back and read through the rest of the book at your leisure, whilst implementing the plan!I am so happy to see Tom's magnum opus of fat loss finally in print!Whether it's true of other diet books or not, it certainly is true of this "lifestyle" book: if you read, learn and then apply what you learn (even imperfectly) from this book, you WILL get great results. You basically cannot, not get results (if that makes sense!)I'm using my reading of this brand new edition to prep me up for my best year ever, physically speaking, in 2014!I've read many a diet book since reading the ebook version of Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle in 2006, and so I feel qualified to honestly say; this really is the one that can be the last 'diet book' you'll ever need to buy!Thousands of others have used Tom's plan to succeed. You can too.

Love this book. And received on time

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This book has changed my life forever and I highly rate Tom Venuto. He is changing the world one day at a time making people healthier. By simply applying the principles in this book you will melt away body fat naturally eating good food and never feel hungry. My own results speaks for itself. Best of all I've kept off the fat for almost 3 years now, so yes this is a lifestyle change.

Enjoy the book.

When we aim to lose weight, most of us want to shed fat and enhance muscle tone, so the premise of burn fat/feed muscle makes sense. There is much sound information in this book, such as calculating your caloric needs and understanding good and bad carbs and fats. I certainly found these aspects helpful, but in other areas the book just wasn't a practical model for me to work with. As a vegetarian, I find it hard to balance my diet to get enough protein without overshooting fat or carbs, and there was no real help here. It briefly states that you can use the programme without meat, but offers no advice on low carb/low fat meat free protein. Even the one example given was of a man who only gave up red meat and was semi-vegetarian. I found some of the advice confusing, in particular being told not to eat bread or potatoes and finding both items in the meal plans. The suggestion that pilates is useless for developing muscle grated a bit with me. Obviously pilates won't get you ripped but it does give good muscle tone. The idea of the book seems to be that non-bodybuilders can use bodybuilding philosophy to get good results, but in its execution the book doesn't adapt this principle broadly enough to be of practical use in this way.

This is a bible for permanent weight loss. It tells you exactly what you need to know in order to lose weight and keep it off. It explodes a lot of myths and leaves you with a blueprint of what you need to do to change your life in terms of your body composition. Do what it says trust it and it will work for you. If you don’t do what it says then it won’t work. I’ve done what it advises and I’ve lost 25 pounds of flab in 7 months. I recommend this book.

I stumbled across this book on Amazon it kept popping up in my recommended books. I had been looking for a book on nutrition having lost a lot of weight gained a bit during lock down and then suffered very slow frustrating weight loss and an inability to stick to my previously successful plan. I was looking for answers on how I could fix this and reach my goals.This fantastic book has not only opened up a brilliant life changing program addressing the mind, the diet, and both cardio and resistance training to fully sculpt the body. it's really well written and and easily explains how the body works and what to do to burn the fat and gain the muscle or maintain the muscle. My plan wasn't to gain muscle but to keep lean body mass and increase my metabolisms and this book explains how.This book has opened up a whole new community to me the fact that Tom the Author is so open to helping people you can pop him a message on the face book group asking a question and he gets back to you with help and advice. I feel like I can make the rest of my journey a success with the guidance of this book.I whole heartedly recommend this book, plan and community best wishes burning the fat and gaining the muscle.

Changed my diet and training! i have soooooo much more understanding of how my body works and have lost nearly two stone while looking good and feeling great!

I have been trying to lose body fat and tone up for years, unsuccessfully. I am so glad I have found this book, it explains where I go wrong with my nutrition and explains what I need to do. Also helps measuring my body fat %, body mass, everything, as relying purely on online calculators will never give you a personalized result. This book helped me big time, since I adjusted my macros I shredded fat and toned my figure.