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January 26th, 2010 | 
Author: One difficult to achieve goal for many body builders is how to most effectively reduce body fat while not losing muscle mass or definition. There are many conflicting ideas about the best way to accomplish this.
Some body builders accept that massive attention to diet is a necessary evil, and are willing to lose a bit of muscle if they can significantly reduce their body fat percentage. These individuals may focus on meeting certain dietary variables, i.e., the number of grams of carbohydrates, protein, and fat in specified quantities for each meal and pre and post workout snacks.
Others may be unwilling to focus on diet and calorie reduction in the fat loss phase of bodybuilding. Individuals that fall into this second camp of thinking, tend to believe that a certain lifting regimen will best help define their muscles and my even cut a bit of fat from their body composition.
These bodybuilders believe in doing many reps using lighter weights to increase the absolute number of reps their muscles can do before fatigue sets in. This lighter weight is lifted significantly more times than the heavier weight would be lifted in a traditional set.
The idea behind lifting lighter weights for significantly more repetitions during the fat loss phase of bodybuilding may stem for the belief that this type of exercise creates a greater amount of lactic acid in the muscle tissues. People believe that this increase in reps, and concomitant increase in lactic acid, will burn more fat than traditional reps and sets with heavier weights.
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