What percentage of fat loss is diet and what percentage is exercise?
John Alvino: Ah..that question again! I remember reading about this debate in a magazine that was published back in the sixties. So this is an old one. I have seen many different scenarios with all the people I’ve worked with. This is how I come up with my conclusion. Some people I have trained have been able to diet very, very strictly, but they’ve hated to train hard. Others would train their asses off, but they hated to diet strictly, so they definitely deviated a bit too often. The people who did better in the long run were the people who were able to diet strictly and train pretty good. Don’t get me wrong, they still train, but not as intensely as I would have liked them to. But they still did better than the people who trained very intensely, but were not strict enough on their diets. So for fat loss there’s a bit more emphasis on your DIET. The percentage is really difficult to say. If you want to nail me down to a number I will take a guess at it, but it’s difficult to say beca
