Metabolic Effect basic principles are “Push until you can’t… REST until you can. This is how you change your body and metabolism.

Engage your natural “fat-loss machinery” and your body will follow.

The next principle is: the use of hybrid movements so that you get a a full body workout in 30 minutes that is different each time you do it.

Calories have more than one destination

Weight loss practitioners have a singular focus and see calories as directly related to fat. They believe if calories are lowered fat is lost and if calories are raised fat is gained.

Fat loss seekers understand that calories are related to not just fat, but also sugar stores (glycogen) and muscle stores. In other words, there is more than one destination for a calorie, and your choices determine which dominates. 

Decrease calories and you may lose fat. But, you may also lose muscle.

Increase calories and you may gain fat, but you could instead gain muscle.

The type of activity you do goes a long way to determine which occurs. This is one of the reasons weight training becomes the dominant form of activity in the fat loss lifestyle, because it is the only form of activity that drives extra calories into muscle gain.