The endurance might be better but pure explosive strength won’t be better.
IMO once I’ve learned how to make the endurance better from such a diet (it is totally called dieting) then it can be utilized when needed, or when fat needs to come off quicker.
Here is an example, people won’t eat certain foods or any foods before pull-ups and chin-ups because it fuks up performance, ok correct, well what about actual growth? I will load up on food and high sugar snacks before pull-ups to make them harder = growth.
Again there is a time and place for both.
I’ve seen the endurance increase but with that increase the fast explosive real power gets diminished. IMO speed and power triumphs in the long haul, even when it comes to cutting fat.
Agreed with your first statement. I think it’s important to keep context in mind for any performance or goal based diet. Body builders diet a certain a way throughout a year to be perfect on stage for 10 minutes. Powerlifters do it to be as strong as possible one given day. Athletes from various sports diet for specific outcomes. And it makes total sense. None of them maintain competition diets in perpetuity. For some reason people who basically just workout or casually compete try to diet like they’re “on” at all times, but they’re not. And they’re missing foundational nutrition in many cases. Or getting fat. I like carbs but you can’t just eat Italian all day every day and pretend like you’re carb loading because you go to the gym 4x per week. Carb loading for what, exactly?
I disagree that you sacrifice explosiveness for strength through diet manipulation, especially adding carbs. While they will provide energy for endurance, they don’t diminish explosiveness if consumed in proper amounts. Energy is energy, your training and conditioning dictate how your body uses it. If you’re getting bloated and it’s slowing you down, that’s another story.
I was talking about diminishing pure strength and explosive power by only eating meat, period.
I will say that if you can get more and more reps though through endurance, that will help contribute to power and explosive lifting. So there is certainly a case for that.
I’ve also found that I need proper warming up to get the best performance, so I need somewhat hard sets of 10-20 (many are scared to do that, fear they will loose energy), once my body gets that primed up and I’m over that sucking wind stage, I get much stronger.
I think there’s a CNS component as well. My warmups include building up to 2 or 3 lifts at a heavier weight than my working sets. When I come back down I feel the muscles working as expected but it’s “easier” because I overshot, woke up for a lack of a better term and came back down to my programmed weight, which my body is ready to handle. And, it’s nice to have the energy reserves on tap.
You’ll ignore the reams of data supporting the benefits of meats but buy into the “need” for fiber and polyphenols - anti-inflammatory - but oats cause inflammation. Oof…
There are plenty of well done, documented, demonstrable, repeatable benefits of meats. That you’re unaware of them seems suspect
has anyone tried FULL burnout(to failure) workouts? I mean → you do a light warmup set to get the joints going with high reps… then BAM every set is to failure…
For example warmup not included, pyramid ->15ish reps, 10ish reps, 5ish reps, then back… so 5 sets, to failure on every set??
Im thinking if you could get/had the RIGHT nutrition you could actually recover…
(the idea behind this is 2 things: that on higher rep stuff 15 etc you dont use the large fibers until the little guys fail, so you are guaranteed to get the big ones every set, and also you will be more fatigued in all sets so you can go slightly lower weight and fatigue the muscle even more aka MORE damage = better)
I don’t know who seems to be ignoring the benefits of meats??? All I been seeing is anti anything that isn’t meat.
Right- eating a fracking peanut or something from the nut family is a sin.
Anti plant stuff.
I guess RAW garlic is out too?
I don’t know of any food that is better to consume than RAW garlic, it isn’t pleasant so not many do it, since when does good things need to be pleasant anyway? The spice in garlic is rough, but it has been proven to lower BP (my is actually normal for the first time I can recall).
If you are on a pure meat diet and lifting heavy shit and have a family history of high cholesterol and BP, you won’t escape that risk. Lifting and more and more meat isn’t going to help you there. Plus it will boost performance pre workout.
I have a resting heart rate of 36 and blood pressure is 107/61, and that’s ONLY if I HEAVILY salt my foods and employ electrolytes. Otherwise, it will drop to 90/48 or something STUPID low.
If so, can’t argue with that. And cholesterol before and after?
If all that is, all I can complain about is your reps on those dead’s are too slow, lol (being srs too, you need more power, sugars and garlic for that).
Yes. Ive done the drop sets from hell.
Ex.
Load up the ez curl with 10 lb. plates, and go to absolute failure. Drop 1 set of plates, Repeat until the bar is empty, and use the empty bar to absolute failure.
Curl is just the example, but you can do it as you wish with what ever exercise you want.
For the sake of common terms: Absolute failure- when the weight/limb is unmoveable. Like fails and would be in free fall but for what ever resistance you can muster against it.
I believe in moving powerfully even through pain. I’m not 100percent on board of going slow on heavy dead’s thru pain. IMO is move it fast as possible to avoid more damaging pain.