From: Burn The Fat Newsletter <burnthefatezine@burnthefat.net>
Date: 2009/9/29
Subject: Q & A: "Hey, Tom, have you ever been fat?"
To: zhou <bbzhouxinxin@gmail.com>
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BURN THE FAT - Fat Burning Tips Newsletter
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Burn The Fat Reader Q & A:
"Tom, why should I listen to you if you've never been fat?"
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"QUESTION:
Tom, What's your personal story? Do you have any before pictures?
You talk about fat loss but have you ever really had to lose
serious fat? What's your body type, have you always been muscular?
It helps to see where you have come from and what obstacles
you personally have had to overcome to reach the type of body
you show in your pictures.
John J.
ANSWER
I'm glad you asked this because you're 100% correct: If people
think I'm some kind of "genetic freak" who was born with muscles
and no body fat, they might wonder if my advice and coaching can
help them. They might figure that progress has always come easy
for me, so my methods and techniques won't apply to them.
If people think what I've done is unattainable for them, they'll
be less likely to make the attempt; but if they see that
I'm just like them and that I've been able to overcome hardships
myself, they'll probably be more motivated to give it their
best shot.
Believe it when I say; it hasn't been easy for me. I can relate
to the hardest of hard-gainers and the most extreme of endomorphs.
Here's my story: I've neverBeen severely overweight, but there
was once a time when my body fat was more than double what my
off season body fat is today. I was definitely NOT naturally
muscular.
In grade school and as a teenager I always had a few rolls of
fat around my waist and it only seemed to get worse with time.
I only weighed about 155 lbs though, so 5' 8" tall I guess
you could say I was a "skinny fat person."
When I was a 14 year old high school freshman, I saw a picture
of Arnold Schwarzenneger as Conan the Barbarian and this inspired
me to start training. From then on, I was totally hooked on pumping
iron. I started training in my parent's garage with a barbell
set and a bench.
After 6 months of training at home, I joined a gym. By the time
I was a 17 year old senior in high school, I had a pretty good
build: I had put size on my arms, chest and thighs; I gained
about 35 pounds of muscle; I benched 300 and squatted 400, but
I still had a thick layer of fat.
I was very frustrated because no matter how hard I trained,
I couldn't get rid of the fat.
Then I went to college and discovered beer. It didn't help
that I went to a "party school" and lived in one of the most
notorious party houses in town either. Twice a week we hosted
keg parties and packed our basement with about 200 rowdy party-
goers (just think of the movie "Animal House" if you want some
idea of what went on at our place). Of course, all the training
I had done came in handy because I had no problem lifting the
beer kegs and carrying them up and down the stairs!
Although I continued to train diligently through college without
ever missing a week of workouts, I also drank heavily every
weekend and ate a lot of junk. At midnight or 1:00 am every
Friday and Saturday night after the party, it was off to Sal's
Pizzeria for cheese fries, stromboli or a large pepperoni pie.
During the week it was the typical college junk food diet of
fast food, pizza and subs. I had been reading all the books and
magazines and studying nutrition since the first day I picked
up a barbell, but I just wasn't applying it.
My freshman and sophomore years in college I continued with my
party animal ways, and before I knew it, I had ballooned up to
a big, bulky 205 lbs. But this wasn't the same 205 lbs that I
weigh in the off-season today (@ 9% body fat).
I was a health & fitness major and I remember doing body
composition testing in exercise physiology lab. I was measured
with skinfolds and with bioelectric impedance analysis and I
clocked in at a chunky 16% body fat (chunky for a 19 year old
male bodybuilder, at least).
It was my junior year in college that I finally took a long hard
look in the mirror and reached a point of total disgust. I was
planning on starting a career in health and fitness being a
role model to others and I looked like a big fat blob.
Sure I looked big and "bulked up" in an XL sweatshirt and everyone
knew I lifted and I was strong, but when the shirt came off, it
wasn't a pretty sight. I was 20 years old and had neverseen my
abs before.
They say you will only change when the pain of remaining the
same is greater than the pain of changing.
Well, staying the same was too painful to bear anymore, so with
the encouragement of my friends and training partners at the gym,
I made a decision to finally get ripped and enter my first
bodybuilding competition.
It took an entire year of incredibly hard work every single day,
including hours of cardio and strict calorie counting to get there.
In the summer of 1989 I finally did it; I stepped onstage at the
Lehigh Valley Natural Bodybuilding competition weighing a ripped
to shreds 150 lbs - a lightweight (with eight pack abs!).
Between the summer of 1988 and the summer of 1989, I lost 55 lbs!
If you do the math, I obviously didn't get it quite right, because
I lost of lot of lean mass, but I came away with a 2nd place trophy
anyway. The next month I competed in Wildwood at the Natural New
Jersey championships and won the lightweight and overall titles
in my division.
Since then I've gained a lot more muscle and competed 26 more times
as a middleweight, including 8 first place titles and 7 second
place awards.
A lot of people look at my physique today and automatically assume
that I'm in some way gifted with a fast metabolism or great genetics.
Let me assure you, nothing could be further from the truth. I've
sweated blood for everything I've achieved.
An elite bodybuilder once said, "The harder I train and the
stricter I diet, the better my genetics appear." Ain't that
the truth!
I am what you call an endo-mesomorph body type. This means that I've
been gifted with the genetics to develop muscle easily (mesomorph),
but I also have a tendency to store body fat very easily (endomorph).
My body is very unforgiving. Even a single day of poor eating takes
its toll. Not only that, but as soon as I stop doing cardio, the fat
begins to accumulate, regardless of how well I'm eating.
The amount of effort it requires for me to reach the condition
you see in my photos is mind-boggling! For 6-12 weeks before
competitions, I literally do nothing but think, talk, eat, sleep
and train bodybuilding. My diet is nothing short of total perfection,
and for the last six or eight weeks before a competition, I sometimes
even do cardio twice a day! (yes, that's 1 1/2 to 2 hours a day of
training in order to hit the low single digits in body fat!)
For a competition, my body fat measures between 3% and 4%, but that
doesn't last long. I like staying at 6-7% body fat, but even this
requires a very concerted effort to keep. Unless I maintain a
superhuman effort, my body fat usually creeps up to about 9%
in the off season. If I'm not careful, it will continue to creep
up into the double digits.
No matter how clean my diet is, I need cardio all year round to
stay lean, even if my carbs and calories are very low. I guess
you could say I have a somewhat high body fat "set point." My
body doesn't like being in the single digits and I have to fight
to keep it there.
A less than optimal metabolism isn't the only obstacle I've had to
overcome. While in my early 20's I ruptured the L-4 disc in my lower
back. This is another other story altogether, but let's just say I
went from squatting 400 lbs to being barely able to bend down and
put on my shoes and socks.
I hope you neverexperience sciatic nerve pain because it's the
most excruciating thing you could ever imagine. (Imagine an
electric shock shooting from your lower back, down one buttock
and all the way down the back of your leg, combined with low
back muscle spasms).
A neurosurgeon told me I shouldn't lift more than 40 lbs, I would
neversquat again and I would eventually need surgery. Basically,
he said I could kiss bodybuilding goodbye. I neveraccepted his
prognosis. Not for a minute. I denied it from the second the words
came out of his mouth. I limped and hobbled around in excruciating
pain but I always believed I would recover 110% - and I did.
It was like starting from scratch all over again. Over a period
of years, I worked my way from an empty bar back up to my previous
poundages, which I then exceeded. After the injury, without ever
getting surgery, I squatted 405 for 6, stiff legged deadlifted
315 for 6 reps, and bent over rowed 275 lbs for 6 reps. That's
lifetime natural, by the way.
It's neverbeen easy for me. It's been a challenge since day one,
but I'm actually grateful for my challenges because they have
caused me to develop dogged persistence and a tremendous work ethic.
I've developed a high threshold for pain and the willingness
to test my limits, go the extra mile and refuse to give up.
People who are extremely gifted genetically tend to coast on their
genetics and sometimes fall far short of their full potential because
of it. Their great genetics make them lazy. Don't envy them.
I can relate to those who are struggling with injuries and with
those who have stubborn and diet-resistant body fat because I have
been there myself. And if I can do it, then anyone can do it.
You asked if I have any "before" pictures? As a matter of fact,
yes; I have a few pictures from college when I was 18 and 19
years old, including a classic "fat picture" of me sitting
shirtless on the sofa with a Budweiser in hand. As far as me
posting any of these photos on the Internet for the whole world
to see - well, let me think about that for a while :-)
Your friend and coach,
Tom Venuto, author of
Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle
http://www.burnthefat.com
Founder & CEO Burn The Fat Inner Circle:
http://www.BurnTheFat.com/InnerCircle
PS My Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle system is the exact same
fat loss program I use to get down to single digit body fat
and it doesn't work because I'm a "genetic freak." It will
work for any one with any body type. Don't let obstacles get
in your way... go around them, through them, over them or
under them... and don't let excuses get in the way either.
Your body type doesn't matter. Burn the Fat will work for
you too. Go to this web page to get started:
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