[quote]PureNsanity wrote:
[quote]TrevorLPT wrote:
[quote]PureNsanity wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
Do you still not see what what we are saying? Why you? [/quote]
Your argument is centered around ad hominem and argument by authority. I want the material judged not myself. The question should be why your book? And quite frankly it’s not that you care to find out the reasons. There won’t be any answer I can provide that’s good enough.
What would be a good enough answer that you would change your mind about me as an author?
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I can’t answer for anyone else, but I know personally I’d only trust someone who could show that their methods have produced good results for themselves and/ or for others. The more “far out” their recommendations, the more impressive the results would need to be for me to take them seriously.
Also, I think a lot of people are going to have a hard time accepting advice about diet, training, or anything related to physical fitness from someone who calls themselves an expert but who weighs 150 lbs and has lifts at your level. ESPECIALLY if they themselves admit that they’ve made little to no progress in the years that it’s taken for them to accumulate their “expertise.”
Maybe if 6 months ago you weighed 80 lbs and were so weak that you couldn’t walk on your own people would be interested in hearing how you’ve made the progress that you have. Unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be the case. [/quote]
With 66% of the population being overweight and obese, 30% who are dieting at all times, the 500,000+ people dying of CVD every year, 8% who are diabetic, 35% who are insulin resistant, and numerous other health conditions most people are just trying to get to my level. I’m healthy, happy, got a ton of energy, and regardless of me being only 158 lbs right now I’m fit.
For the last 2.5 years I’ve been doing experiments on health. I haven’t been trying to work on my 1RMs or physique. My knowledge base is in health concerns like cholesterol and insulin resistance. In that regard I’ve been able to drop my cholesterol by 204 mg/dL in 23 days, and my fasting glucose by 20 mg/dL in 28 days. At my heaviest I was 205 lbs so I have experience losing weight too (coincidentally that’s when I had my PRs too).
I can tell you that studies artificially raising HDL haven’t shown any benefit to reducing incidence of CVD.
I can explain the results from the IOM study on sodium and why the 2,300mg CDC recommendation for sodium limit is bunk.
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Fine. You know how to reduce your cholesterol and fasting glucose. Those things are important, but you realize that you’re posting in a forum about performance and physique enhancement, right? You also seem to imply and other times outright claim that you believe your program is good for these goals (“I propose that if we mimic activity and diet close to a predator’s activity and diet that there may be some significant health and strength benefits.”) So far it seems like at least the strength portion of your hypothesis is very false.
Someone claiming to be a self-educated expert in dieting while sporting a sub-par physique and level of strength just isn’t going to get a very good reception from a bunch of people who care about improving their physique or performance. You can say “but I’m not an expert at THAT kind of dieting” all you want and it’s not going to make too much difference.
That said, had you posted here saying that you’re doing this experiment solely to see what effects it would have on your cholesterol, fasting glucose levels, and other health markers I bet you would have gotten a lot less flack. Unfortunately you also made claims (both implicit and explicit) about this being a good way to eat and train for performance and physique enhancement and then followed those claims up by saying you were an expert and pointing out that you try to sell your ideas to people. I’m pretty sure thats where you lost almost everyone.