"Burn The Fat - Feed The Muscle" By Tom Venuto - Review

Review by Rahul Alvares

All of three hundred and forty pages, “Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle” (BFFM) is one of the most comprehensive books I have read on fat loss. What I like most about Tom Venuto is his honesty.

Tom himself writes somewhere in the beginning of the book – “I am probably the only person in the world who will tell you that fat loss is difficult!” There… the cat’s out of the bag and its not going back in!

As the chapters progress from “Goal Setting”to “Weight Training For Fat Loss,” Tom takes you through a most interesting, informative and easily-explained story on burning fat. BFFM is a lifestyle. It is not a thirty day diet schedule with extreme measures for attaining unrealistic goals, it is something that you could work with for the rest of your life and stay in excellent health if you do so.

The good thing about the book is it gives you the right conscience. After you’ve read the book you will feel guilty as Judas when you touch a donut (if you even manage to do so in the first place!). The chapters on nutrition are excellent. Most of the book actually deals with effectively monitoring your diet and calorie intake.

Like I said nothing extreme. If you are looking for a secret formula like the extract of some fungi found only in South America, or a schedule that says ‘thirty two minutes of cardio and fourteen sets of tricep kickbacks’ then you are going to be highly disappointed. Because BFFM is about teaching you how to fish and not merely giving you the fish when you are hungry.

Tom will teach you how to diet, exercise and monitor your progress. He will even give you the right motivation and make you set very realistic goals. Kind of like walking you to the door. Then comes your part of experimenting, finding out what works for you and stepping back on track every time you find yourself having drifted away. That’s the honesty of the whole program.

If you are relatively new to training you will find the book most informative.

But personally I think that for an advanced trainer it will be like reading a lot of things that he/she already knows about. If you already have a good knowledge of dieting then there are few new things you might learn about in BFFM. BFFM is very basic and broad in its approach. Although I don’t really think I can blame Tom for that because I, too, believe that the real secrets to fat loss are fundamentals and hard work.

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