It’s no secret that men and women are physiologically quite different. So it only makes sense that when it comes to how to lose fat fast, our approaches should differ as well, right? Well, yes and no. In fact, when it comes to how to lose fat for women versus how to lose fat for men, there’s actually not much difference. For instance, with regards to training, both need to prioritize weight lifting. This is because as you lose fat, weight lifting for women and men will help maintain and build muscle as you lose weight. This helps burn more fat and also prevents you from ending up skinny fat after you’ve lost all your weight. However, there are some important sex differences in training you’ll want to consider as well. For instance, let’s start with the ideal workout to lose fat for men versus women which mainly depends on training goals. Men typically want big arms, a big chest, a wide back, and wider shoulders. Therefore their training should reflect this by performing a lot of compound pushing and pulling exercises. Whereas women typically want more muscle definition and to grow their glutes, and such would want more lower body volume and less upper body volume.
Now as for physiological gender differences, research actually shows that women can handle more training volume and a higher training frequency than men since they recover faster between workouts. They are also better suited to shorter rest times between sets compared to men. Thus, this means that women can and should be performing slightly higher volume workouts and train more frequently (e.g. full body workouts) when compared to men – while also using slightly shorter rest periods.
Next, moving onto the best diet to lose fat for women versus men, it’s important to realize that you need to be in a calorie deficit to lose fat regardless of your gender. Thus, there’s not much difference in the best foods or diet to lose fat fast for men versus women. However, research does show that at any given exercise intensity, women burn more fat than carbs and protein than men do. So since women rely less on carbs and muscle glycogen for energy in their workouts, they may do better with a higher fat diet than men. This is especially true for women since research also shows that higher fat meals seem to more satiating for women but not for men. Thus, this may be useful to incorporate for women dieting to lose fat.
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Please make updated version with your recent knowledges and experiments
Can you post 2026 video in case there is or isn’t any changes to this information based on any new studies and w/ your new editing/ graphics. Thanks!
great video!
Watched this 5 years ago but did not comment
Thankss for the video
Not me scared for that woman at 3:08 doing squats with her hair loose 🫣
Stop saying woman when you're referring to women what the actual f***
That lady squatting at around 3min with her hair over the bar triggers me so much 😅 seen way too many gym fails to not be anxious about her scalping herself 😅
It must be different tbh boob and butt are fat. If we employ same training and nutrition, men's route is achieving that concrete visible look. Lower body fat.12-15% optimal
For women low body fat is so not recommend and doesnt look feminine. Some even reported reduced size of boobs after too much chest workout and caloric deficit. I can imagine woman probably dont have to lower their caloric intake while they workout and for men there might be a need to.
Men Vs Women: The Best Way To Lose Fat (Key Differences). Thank You Jeremy Ethier For Sharing Good Video. Morine & Graham. 🙌🏽😘🏋🏽♀️🏋🏽♂️🌼.
Would love to see if there are new learnings that warrant making an updated version of this video!
It's freaky efiing gross to say MEN and FEMALES in the same sentence. But i guess you know ir you wouldn't keep saying woman as though we're not individuals . Gross. Down thumb
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The video's advice on consistency reminds me of the hermq program – so true!
Excellent video. But it was strange that you say men and females. Choose one: Males and females, or men and women.
And women is pronounced [wimen].
I like this video except for the comment about how women generally don’t care about building their upper body. IMO we need to focus even more on upper body because it tends to be weaker. It pains me to see how many women can’t do a single push up…
1:10 i prefer the left one, skinny. I don’t want too much muscles. Not all women want muscles – look like
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Thanks for vid. Strange I know..but the plural of woman (women) is pronounced like Wimin
Jeremy out here admitting that men and women are different? Damn, he's playing with fire.
That's because us women have to look after kids 24/7. We don't really have the time to rest between taking them from a tree or pulling out of a puddle! While men are supposed to fight an angry lion once in a while and can relax all day long afterwards 😂
Okay cool i totally thought 2 minutes between sets was way too much I was like I feel okay like after 45 sec to a min
Great video thanks, just wondering why you say woman singular instead of women plural but you say men 😂😂
Now I’m old eating lots of carbs is not great I try to stay under 100g but I do eat 120g of protein a day
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Bruh i was looking to a tiutorial on how to shred on guitar LOL
I came across your video's, and I'm very impressed in the way and techniques. By using science and biology I recommends you a lot to all the newcomers of the gym world one of your fans in the Caribbean
Hi Jeremy, I have a request could you show male trainers how to professionally assist women while they're training too many trainer's unfortunately take advantage of the ignorance of a woman while they're training blessings.
Women my friend…Women. It's pronounced Wimen when you're speaking of more than one woman.
As a female I train all my muscles dividing my 6 day schedule glutes is not the only thing I care about but it depends on priority
I love how he says "woman" instead of "women"… Caveman meme
Say what you want about woman but they are lovely person