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Paleo, carbohydrate cycling, intermittent fasting, Atkins, cyclic ketogenic, Zone, low-fat, low-carb, and all the other various diets are simply providing the user with a set of tools designed to increase compliance to their diet. At the core of each effective nutritional protocol out there is a strategy that somehow boosts the person’s compliance that ultimately results in a change in calories (or macros) that produce either a caloric deficit or surplus. Many people have gotten good results from manipulating meal timing, frequency, and food quality- whether it be weight maintenance, muscle gain, or more commonly weight loss. “Your individual goals, training, genetics, history, and compliance will determine exactly what you need to do to get where you want to go.”Ĭalories do matter, as any bodybuilder or weight class athlete will attest to, and so do macronutrient levels, as any coach worth their pay has witnessed.

I could go through each of these claims and debunk them both scientifically and anecdotally, but instead I’ll refrain and simply say this: These claims, while helpful to some, do not take the individual into account. There are, unfortunately, many experts and gurus with loud voices/many social media followers who would have you believe that calories don’t matter, carbohydrates are bad, that you have to eat a certain amount of times per day, or not eat for a certain period of time during the day. Slightly less important in the nutritional game, but perhaps useful for optimizing a person’s nutrition are the secondary nutritional parameters: meal timing, meal frequency, and food quality. Primarily, these are caloric load and macronutrient totals- though I would argue that macros determine calories and thus, the two things are equal proxies.

Truth be told, there are only a handful of nutritional parameters that actually matter when it comes to physical development. can post a comment or contact me directly through the Barbell Medicine forums. Anyone wishing to know more about me, my background, lifts, etc. My competition best lifts are a 640 squat, 430 bench press, and 725 deadlift. As an aside, I’m a raw powerlifter who competes in the 198 (90kg) weight class at a bodyfat somewhere between 13-16%.

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That said, I will make references to existing data that I am familiar with in addition to pulling from my personal and professional experience, research, and formal education to put this together. a book, this will obviously be necessary. Given the format of this article, I won’t be providing peer-reviewed literature because the citation list would be extremely long- to the point of not wanting to write this thing in the first place. I’ll also include three case studies that represent the most common situations with regards to training and nutrition. I’ll cover what I’ve learned to be important variables when it comes to improving one’s physical development via the combination of personal and professional experience as well as scientific research. What follows is a no-nonsense guide to setting up your own nutritional template. What seems to be happening all too frequently in our strength training niche’ is that people are getting spun out on the details of nutrition or radical protocols and missing the forest for the trees. While the recipe for losing body fat or gaining muscle mass is elementary, the execution can be very challenging. The interactions of different nutritional parameters can be very complex depending on how far down the rabbit hole you want to go. The funny thing about nutrition is that it’s both really complicated and really simple all at the same time. I’m forever in your debt, Cory- but since I introduced you to your wife I’d say things are almost even. generated the phrase “To be a beast, you have to eat like a beast” back in high-school when he introduced me to the weight room. Finally, I should give credit where credit is due. In any event, I appreciate everyone who has read, shared, and learned anything from this post.

#BODY BEAST CALORIE UPDATE#

This has been a long time coming, mainly to incorporate some changes as to how my thinking has evolved over two years as well as update some of the formulas, charts, and links. Updated : Finally, I have updated what has been the most viewed blog post on this website. By Jordan Feigenbaum MS, Starting Strength Staff, CSCS, HFS, USAW Club Coach

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