FAT LOSS

Whether you're a rugby player, a runner, a dancer, a bodybuilder,  or just someone who wants to look and feel great for your summer holidays, your wedding, or just because you take pride in your appearance, low body  fat is always desirable! Words such as ‘lean’, ‘toned’, ‘defined’ and 'cut' are  all terms associated with the perfect body, and having a low body fat level  not only looks great, but improves sports performance too.

Products
Fat Loss Training
Diet & Nutrition
Green Tea & Weightloss

Products

	Dynamic Whey Protein USN's New Dynamic Whey Protein provides the highest quality protein per serving.
	Protein Plex ProteinPlex is a precision engineered low carbohydrate, high protein meal replacement formula also available in a convenient sachet.
	CLA CLA enhances fat loss and increases lean body mass it also increases the activity of hormone sensitive lipases, which results in the breakdown of stored fat.
	Phedra-Cut XT Phedra-Cut XT is an anti-catabolic metabolic enhancer and thermogenic fat burner. NdOc 600: The metabolic rate is a measure of the rate at which energy is released from the fuel molecules inside the cells.
	Creatine X4 CreatineX4 provides a revolutionary form of creatine which does not rely on insulin for its uptake.

Fat Loss Training

Whether you're a rugby player, a runner, a dancer, a bodybuilder, or just someone who wants to look and feel great for your summer holidays, your wedding, or just because you take pride in your appearance, low body fat is always desirable! Words such as ‘lean’, ‘toned’, ‘defined’ and 'cut' are all terms associated with the perfect body, and having a low body fat level not only looks great, but improves sports performance too.

Train with weights
When you train with weights, two things happen; first by positively stressing your muscle through exercise, you stimulate growth of new muscle tissue. This results in you burning more energy, which means you also burn more calories. Secondly the body will burn additional energy to maintain the muscle tissue that is being regularly stressed.

Many women worry that by weight-training they'll get big muscles - this is not the case. By weight-training, you'll tone, tighten and shape your physique! You can find some great routines here.

Do cardiovascular exercise at least twice a week
Low intensity cardiovascular exercise plays an important role in any fat loss program. Of primary importance, low intensity cardiovascular exercise stimulates the release of fatty acids from tissue. This has two benefits - first, you're actually burning fat, second, your body will up-regulate the enzyme systems necessary for burning fat more efficiently. So you burn more fat and you burn it faster.

The second reason why you want to do some regular cardio work is that it helps protect your heart. Good cardiovascular health is vitally important to your long term condition and longevity.

Find out the most effective fat-burning exercise tips here.

Diet and Nutrition

Eat the right types of food
Meal Frequency could be the most important aspect of your nutrition program. If you do this right you will build muscle, burn fat, and with a proper resistance training program, be well on your way to achieving the body of your dreams. When you eat small meals, insulin and blood sugar remain stable. This facilitates weight loss because keeping insulin and sugar-levels balanced helps drive amino acids into muscle, carbohydrates into the liver and muscle glycogen storage and helps us to utilize the fat we eat and more importantly the fat we have stored. Meal-replacement products are a convenient way to make sure you're supplying your body with enough nutrients and also a good way to keep your body burning calories whilst maintaining muscle.

Eat enough protein
Without adequate protein, synthesis of new muscle tissue comes to a standstill. Furthermore, inadequate protein intake will eventually compromise your immune system and will certainly result in muscle tissue losses. Eating protein is crucial and you should aim for at least 1g per pound of bodyweight for males and 0.8g per 1lb for females. In order to get the amount you need, we recommend using protein supplements such as USN's 100% Whey or Pure Protein.

Plan Ahead and Think Positive

Plan ahead & think positive
To avoid falling into these traps, it's vital to be clear and positive about your motivations for losing weight. It's also vital to plan goals that will enable you to make lifestyle changes you can both achieve and maintain. A goal can be something as simple as losing 5 pounds in 1 month, or as detailed as transforming your entire body and changing your life. The important thing to remember is to set realistic goals that are within your ability to achieve. Write them down before you start your weight-loss programme:

Your chosen goal, eg. walking for 30 minutes every day for the next month.

• How the goal will help you and what you need to do to achieve it.
• Possible barriers to achieving your goal.
• Ways to overcome those barriers.

Read our full list of Training Tips here! 

 Green Tea & Weightloss

There are several benefits of green tea for weightloss. It is excellent for the control of cholesterol and appetites. As such it is promoted in many weightloss products and for good reason. It has been scientifically proven to be one of the best natural fat burners available.

Why is it so popular for weightloss?
Green tea is a natural and extremely healthy diuretic fat burner. Not only does it help to control the blood sugar levels and thus hunger cravings, it helps to increase the metabolism of the body. Increased energy consumption means that more calories are burnt.

It also replaces the caffeine content in supplements. This is however, not the last of its excellent qualities as it is a powerful anti-oxidant that helps the body cleanse itself. It contains pigallocatechin gallate which is far superior to Vitamin E as an anti-oxidant.

In addition it also slows down the working of a digestive enzyme which is responsible for the fast breakdown of carbohydrates that normally leads to the rising of blood sugar levels. Instead a stable breakdown follows and the yo-yo effect of bloods sugar rise and fall is thus countered.

Green tea hinders the storage of fat and should form part of your daily dietary plan.

USN CLA Green Tea
We have developed the soft gel USN CLA Green Tea supplement to ensure that you get all the weightloss benefits from green tea to boost your energy levels, lower cholesterol, burn fat faster, and control blood sugar levels. Visit our dietary supplement page for more information on the above and other valuable fat burning supplements.