May 6, 2010 By 23 Comments

7 Reasons Your Fat Loss Diet Isn’t Working

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As the summer approaches, the hottest topic on the lips of every physique-conscious individual is, without a doubt, fat loss.

Dieting down for the summer months is humdrum for those who wish to reveal their six-pack abs and look great in their bathing suit.  Just the other day as I was training, I overheard some chatter amongst a few of my peers about their fat loss efforts, their routines and how “slow” their fat loss attempts were going.  As a result of my nosy eavesdropping I inferred as to why they were failing miserably.

After their conversation was over, here are a few ideas I would have liked to run by them.

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April 26, 2010 By 92 Comments

GOMAD – Gallon of Milk A Day: Is It For Everyone?

Due to the recent (okay, not so recent) phenomenon that is the internet, it seems we’ve a plethora of good, bad and downright terrible information at our disposal.  With relative ease, I can search for just about anything I’m looking for in google, and in most cases, I’ll get the answers I need.  Hell, we can normally find most of the secrets we’re after as well.

Today, I want to take a quick look at one of the top muscle-building, weight-gaining secrets from the Black-Ops strength and bodybuilding underground, and shed some light on some of the good, the bad and the ugly.

Yes, GOMAD does indeed stand for the notorious diet that consists of a gallon of milk a day.  No shit – that’s a ton of milk. [Read more...]

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April 19, 2010 By 40 Comments

Social Drinking on a Fat Loss Diet

Drinking alcohol and the phrase fat loss diet rarely ever go together, especially when discussing the matter with a serious (or rather rigid) bodybuilder or physique-conscious individual.

A common assumption is that while one is on a diet, alcohol is completely off limits.  If you enjoy the occasional drink or like to go out on the weekends and partake with family and friends, it’s just not practical to completely abstain.  More so than being impractical, it creates limitations that will induce frustration and other sour feelings that will only make your diet harder than it needs to be.

Another downfall is our change in behavior when we explicitly restrict certain foods or beverages from our diet when our goal is to lose body fat.  I’ve written about this a few times.  I cover some of my previous issues in my meal frequency article and then later in how I eliminated binge eating. [Read more...]

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April 5, 2010 By 66 Comments

Build Muscle and Lose Fat: The Recomp Effect Part II

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Build muscle, lose fat, add 13 inches to your vertical jump, run a 4.25 forty, find the love of your life and learn how to get paid for waking up.  If you do everything in this article, all of these things and more will happen to you overnight.

Okay, I kid, but as I alluded to in Part I, today I’m going to share with you an approach to setting up a recomp protocol.  Remember, this is best suited for those concerned with remaining lean(er) throughout the year and willing to allow for a bit slower gains than the alternate approaches like GFH (get effing huge), GOMAD (gallon of milk per day) and the standard bodybuilding bulk/cut cycles. [Read more...]

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