Hi All,
Here’s hoping my lousy internet connection holds up better than earlier in the day!
Got questions?
Hi Lonnie,
I would like to have your opinion on carbs cycling diet, I’m thinking of giving this diet a try. I tried Keto and ‘normal’ diet (40-40-20) but my body seem to adapte too rapidely and the results are not very good. So should cycling carbs (no carb day-low carbs day-high carbs day - repeat) be a good idea ?
I’m about 15 % BF, would like to drop below 10%
thx
Question regarding precontest cardio: Doing a session before breakfast AND after the last meal of the day for extreme fat loss. Contest is in 5.5 weeks…your thoughts please!
Thank you!
Donnie…
Cybex,
I’ve never personally tried or researched carb cycling in this manner.
“Glycogen economy” is a nifty concept (i.e. one tends to refill glycogen stores before storing lots of body fat). But I tend to think coming to a tailored fairly consistent amount of well-timed daily carbohydrate is best. (Yes, I’m a stick in the mud.) That is, if one has reason to believe he or she is a poor carb metabolizer (based on family history of diabetes, personal experience or legitimate lab values like fasting glucose, HbA1c, etc.), perhaps dropping carbs by 20% or 30% could help.
And remember that even in a lab setting it often takes 8+ weeks to detect significant changes in body composition. A judgement of efficacy after a 2-3 week effort may be premature.
Hope that helps some.
PtrDr
Yep, I’ve done that in the later stages of a competition diet. The “calorie draining” was necessary because I wasn’t about to cut dietary intake any further. Pre-breakfast walking (uphill) for 45 min., post-lifting cardio for 30 min. and (ugh.) 30 minutes before or after dinner in the final four weeks or so of that 22 week diet was what I needed to drive my % fat so low. I’m sure you realize this isn’t something I’d do at any other time!
And not to deflate your enthusiasm, but try to keep in mind that guys who get down to competitive % fat (say below 4%) tend to end up fatter over the years for various reasons. It’s like yo-yo dieting. Still, I hear where you’re coming from brother, just don’t get that lean too often, eh?
And keep me posted here on Tuesdays and Thursdays!
Hey LL,
As I just asked Chris, could you please check out the thread called Prime Time - SOY BABY in the Supplements and Nutrition Section?
I’d like to have your expert opinion on soy and infant nutrition.
Thanks!
I have been waiting for an opportunity to discuss my multi-vitamin questions so here goes…I have spent countless hours trying to find the perfect product.
Does a man avoid iron and if not how much should he take?
How do I get the best absorption? Am I just making expensive pee?
Is liquid really better?
What are the best forms of each vitamin…each mineral? Chelated or not? If the answers exist in the archives, point me in the right direction.
Biotest please, please, please make the perfect multi, I’d buy it and take it for life. Maybe even include some of that nano-dispersion stuff for the nutrients that are more bioavailable that way. What product comes with your recommendations that can hold me over and solve my dilema until Biotest gives in?
One last somewhat unrelated question? Are desicated liver tablets worth the money? Why or why not?
enterthedojo,
I dropped by with a brief comment. I hope I wasn’t too brief or sounded rude. That’s not my intent at all!
Actually, even laying the groundwork is beyond the scope of a BB Forum. We’re talking about a baby here and the responsibilities extend well beyond those of tweaking the diet of a fairly robust adult.
It’s great that your thinking about it beforehand though - for sure. Definitely commendable.
…Okay, folks. My internet connection held up after all tonght.
Until next time…
No not rude at all, actually I never even thought of getting a university nutrition textbook. Great idea! Thank you!
You’re right, its a huge responsibilty making nutrition choices for a baby. With all the wacky nutrition gurus out there and the FDA telling us all sorts of crazy things, its hard to know who to trust. And what can I say, I trust T-Nation very much!
Thank you for the info Dr.Lowery. I will keep what you said in mind and mimic very closely what you did with your diet/cardio prep…
Thanks!
Donnie…
LL back in the house 6/14/05.
Got questions?
Do you train people one on one?
Can you tell me of some compound movements that do not require a seperate ab workout routine for “more defined abs”?
Thank you,
OD
Hi!
I posted a question a few days ago:
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=653918
With you being the nutrition expert, do you recommend any books specific to nutrition that is(are) mostly scientific?
I was in the bookstore the other day and I saw a book where you and Dr JB wrote sometihng on the Anitoxidants section… I can’t really remember the name of the book
Oh and when is your recipe book coming out?
Thanks!
With the new info out on reduced protein requirements for athletes, (from Berardi, etc), what is your take on protein requirements for the seasoned lifter still trying to build quality mass steroid free? This is now the hot topic with my fellow lifters.
Don’t blast me too badly if you’ve already discussed this, I don’t make it in here often.
Hi Dr. Lowery,
Curious to know why a lower calorie diet totes longer life expectancy. Cell turnover… etc… Why could not the cells keep turning over? I am pretty sure there is a study and I can’t seem to think of it at the moment?
-Get Lifted
No. I do occasionally consider taking on clients (generally professional or collegiate athletes) for nutrition counseling…
…and for training tutelage relative to revcovery issues.
I was a trainer for several years as an undergrad/grad student, however. Unlike what we tend to see here, I got more nutrition questions than actual training inquiries, which is one reason I got the additional degrees specific to nutrition.
Dr. Lowery,
If you were designing a nutrition program and you added in fat(poly mono omega) why would you add this opposed to carbs. Would there be any reason for you to do this? And if so why?
-Get Lifted
I’m about to start my summer job - I’ll be canvassing, walking around for about four hours a day. I’m also about to start a cutting diet, perhaps T-Dawg 2.0. Should I make any adjustments to T-Dawg or any other low-carb diet do to my increased activity level? I realize I’ll probably need to up my baseline calorie level, but would it be advisable to consume slightly more carbs? I guess it probably depends on how I respond to low-carb diets (which I’m not quite sure of), but any general advice would be awesome.
Thanks,
Dan
Orignal_demon,
As you may already know, more defined abs come from aerobic activity (walking/jogging, cycling, certain sports) and a well-planned diet. That is, leanness. Some guys have visible abs at higher % fat than others, however.
I can say that, however isolating, heavy triceps pushdowns can get the ol’ abs pretty darn sore! Squats also affect the overall midsection, as you might find after taking some time off and coming back to them. Of course you may hear that squats can distend (stretch) the belly a bit from veteran lifters.