The Thermo-Anabolic Effect
With this simple one-day strategy, you can trigger the thermo-anabolic effect, lose fat, and prime your muscles for growth.
There's no such thing as "maintenance mode." Your body composition is never static. It's always trending in one direction or the other. You're either getting leaner or getting fatter. You're either gaining muscle or you're losing muscle.
So, which direction is your body trending? Unfortunately, many people who hit the gym and watch their diets have accidentally caused their bodies to trend in the wrong direction. By oscillating between extreme fat loss diets and bulking phases they've taught their bodies to store fat easier while at the same time becoming resistant to building muscle. Progress slows and finally comes to a halt as they slide backward.
It's time to fix that and fix it fast.
Are You Chubby-Strong or Skinny-Fat?
You could be your own worst enemy when it comes to losing fat and gaining muscle. Like most lifters, you've looked at fat loss and muscle gain as two separate and very different strategies. As a result, you've mistakenly programmed your body to function as a very efficient fat-storage machine that's also stubborn about building muscle.
Your metabolism is sluggish, fat cells are constipated and hold on to their gooey globs of lipids, and muscle-cell receptors are resistant to pulling in nutrients for growth.
The result? A body that's either "chubby-strong" or "skinny-fat," but never really where you want it to be. You need a simple strategy to fix these body composition problems and keep them fixed. You need to get your physiology trending in the direction you want it to go.
Begin the Trend with the MAG-10 Pulse Fast
We've been testing this protocol for a few years on a wide variety of people, from pro bodybuilders and athletes to casual lifters. We've seen potent thermogenic effects combined with enhanced anabolic activity in muscle – all from this single strategy.
According to Christian Thibaudeau, "It might be the only true breakthrough in the world of high-performance nutrition in the past 20 years." He's referring to a certain powerful metabolic effect that occurs from pulse-dosing MAG-10 (Buy at Amazon).
Not only does it produce a profound anabolic response, but it also produces a powerful thermogenic effect. Even more impressive – shocking actually – is that we've witnessed greater rates of muscle gain and fat loss than when either goal is approached separately.
We're resetting the fat cell's hormone-release pattern to induce an anabolic metabolism fueled by the body's own fat stores, which is where we get the term thermo-anabolic. Fasting over a 24-hour period, while pulsing with doses of MAG-10, enhances insulin sensitivity in both muscle and fat cells.
Due to the fasting state, the loaded MAG-10 formula hits the bloodstream fast and sends what amounts to an anabolic shockwave right into the muscle. At the same time, fat cells are signaled to release their contents for fuel. As the body responds to this pulse-fast strategy, muscle cells become increasingly sensitive to the anabolic formula of MAG-10, fat cells shrink, and the systemic urge to eat junk is reduced.
Even though it's technically complex, a MAG-10 Pulse Fast is pretty simple and painless to do. And cheat meals play a role.
No-Guilt Cheat Meals
Cheat meals happen, and this isn't necessarily a bad thing. A once or twice-per-week cheat meal can greatly boost metabolic rate. Your metabolism burns hot, white hot, after a sudden influx of extra calories.
But most people don't take advantage of this effect. They immediately feel guilty and "put out the fire" of their scorching-hot metabolism with dietary restrictions or too much punitive cardio. But what if you could instead extend this powerful state, potentiate it, and keep that fire burning?
The MAG-10 Pulse Fast allows you to do that. The day after a big cheat, simply follow the protocol. Its thermic nature will further ramp up your metabolic rate, turning the day after your cheat into a 24-hour bonfire for fat.
Prove It
While the main goal is to get your body trending in the right direction – burning more calories or preferentially using those calories for muscle gain instead of fat storage – there are also some very satisfying short-term effects.
The average person will lose 2 or 3 pounds of weight (as much as 4 or 5 pounds) composed of water and fat during just one short Pulse Fast. He or she will also see about an inch lost from the fattest part of the belly.
Prove it to yourself:
- The morning after your cheat meal, wake up and get on the scale. Then measure around the largest part of your belly area with a fabric tape measure.
- Now follow the Pulse Fast guidelines below for one day.
- The next morning, wake up and weigh/measure again.
Prepare to be shocked. You'll not only feel better, but you'll look better too.
How To Do It
It's simple. Just follow these steps:
- The night before your Pulse Fast, have a nice big cheat meal.
- When you wake up the next morning, begin your Pulse Fast. Have one serving of MAG-10 (Buy at Amazon) every 3-4 hours. You'll consume 5-6 servings of MAG-10 spread evenly throughout the day and no solid food.
Questions & Answers
Do I train on the day of my Pulse Fast?
Use the MAG-10 Pulse Fast on an off-day. A short conditioning session or light cardio workout is fine, but don't lift weights. Since most people take at least a day or two off from weight training per week, the Pulse Fast should easily fit into your schedule.
How many times can I do the Pulse Fast per week?
For most people, a once-per-week Pulse Fast is all they need. If your cheat meal is on Sunday, Pulse Fast on Monday. If you'd like to see even faster results, you can do two Pulse Fasts per week with 2-3 days between each.
What do I do the day after my Pulse Fast?
Resume your normal eating plan that fits your current goals. But remember, the real benefit from thermo-anabolic metabolism occurs in the days after the Pulse Fast when your body is extra sensitive to building muscle and burning fat.
Your body is now primed to suck nutrients into muscle and not store fat. So, take full advantage of this enhanced physiology by following effective dietary and training strategies, and load up on workout nutrients (Buy at Amazon).
This is especially true for the first day after the Pulse Fast, where you'll get a profound rebound effect. To really take advantage of the effect, you'll want to increase training volume.
Bonus: A Cleanse for Cravings?
There's always one thing standing in the way of having sustainably low body fat: cravings. Not hunger, which is natural, but hard-to-control cravings for the things we know are keeping us from getting lean. We now know that the bacteria that naturally live in our digestive systems have a lot to do with this.
Metabolically unfavorable gut bacteria cause problems, including metabolic impairment, insulin resistance, and adipose inflammation. Bad bacteria also trigger cravings by manipulating your endocannabinoid system and influencing the vagus nerve and the enteric nervous system. It wants you to feed it.
Luckily, these bad bugs can be tamped down, allowing the good bacteria to flourish.
How do you do it? You starve the bad bacteria out.
The MAG-10 Pulse Fast happens to do just that. Since the unhealthy bacteria isn't fed for one day and two nights, its population reduces. Balance is restored. That means cravings will begin to subside. It also means that protein utilization will be increased while carbs will be better "put to work" rather than stored away as body fat.
