CT,
thank u for the mech drop set article on arms. ive now performed it 3xs spacing workout 5 days apart. AMAZING. ive noticed (and others) a big difference in the LOOK of my arms. yesterday was workout 3. also my strength has gone up considerably.
question: how long do i continue using this workout?
thank you
Hey Coach,
I was wondering if it were possible to replace carbs with fats as fuel in post workout meals, shakes, etc., or any meal. Thanks.
[quote]srhenderson wrote:
Hey Coach,
I was wondering if it were possible to replace carbs with fats as fuel in post workout meals, shakes, etc., or any meal. Thanks.[/quote]
No. The purpose of the carbs in the post-workout shake is to replenish glycogen store, not to give you energy.
Furthermore fat would slow down the absorption of protein which is really dumb, post-workout.
[quote]Visigodo wrote:
Hi Coach Thib…
I´m a powerlifter and I´m over the 24% of body fat, and I need a diet to low the body fat but whitout loosing strength… my dream is to get a phisic like yours… (If is posible without suplements, only creatine, glutamine, and whey protein.)
Scuse my english but I´m from Uruguay, a litle country in South America, and in my country we don´t speak english, we speaks spanish.
Thanks so much.
[/quote]
I forget… I´m 28 years old, my body wheigth is 124 kilos, and muy body fat is 24%
[quote]Visigodo wrote:
Visigodo wrote:
Hi Coach Thib…
I´m a powerlifter and I´m over the 24% of body fat, and I need a diet to low the body fat but whitout loosing strength… my dream is to get a phisic like yours… (If is posible without suplements, only creatine, glutamine, and whey protein.)
Scuse my english but I´m from Uruguay, a litle country in South America, and in my country we don´t speak english, we speaks spanish.
Thanks so much.
I forget… I´m 28 years old, my body wheigth is 124 kilos, and muy body fat is 24%[/quote]
Erm as he seems unwilling to promote himself:
Purchase Get Jacked E-Book.
Keep all your strength, lose body fat and have fun on cardio bunny machines !
What more does one want
I’m gunna get this… I still have a way to go until I reach the level of ‘fat loss’ but I’m still gunna get it…
[quote]VibeAlive wrote:
I’m gunna get this… I still have a way to go until I reach the level of ‘fat loss’ but I’m still gunna get it… [/quote]
You know you can use the workouts for mass gain ya ?
Just add more fat/protein to the nutrition set out 
Hey CT can i get some referrer money 
(messing btw)
[quote]300andabove wrote:
Hey CT can i get some referrer money
(messing btw)[/quote]
You do know that MDT has an affiliate system, right? Then, that referrer money thing wouldn’t be a joke 
Coach, I started my first cut about two weeks ago, and I am aiming to end on May 2 (13 weeks). Starting at 230 around 15% bodyfat (doing a bodpod soon). I played football through college and just graduated, but I have always been around this percent BF.
I feel like I’m in a similar situation as you before the “Beast Evolves” article. However I have never cut before, so what is a realistic goal?
Some more info… I’m eating around 2500 cals/day and keeping a food log. I have it all spreadsheeted out and am averaging around 25/45/30 carbs/protein/fat which works out to around 140g carbs, 300g protein, 80g fat. Just changed to a five day split. Push Day, Complex Day, Pull Day, Complex Day, Legs and Low Back. No days off. The complex day is from Cosgrove’s “The Last 10 Pounds”
http://www.T-Nation.com/readArticle.do?id=2154939
I think I will keep this for around 4 weeks or so and switch my split up again. I need about two more splits. For my next I was thinking about adapting German Body Comp to use in a college gym where it’s not feasible to do giant sets in multiple places.
Maybe just using some metabolic pairings. Then I need one more split; would it be a good idea to come back to my current split? It is feeling really awesome so far.
Is it a good idea to switch up diet when I switch up workouts as well? Perhaps start rotating some carbs? I will be able to stick to any diet, but I think fine tuning it will be the most difficult part for me. Any advice here?
So many more questions, but I already feel guilty for writing as much as I have. I’ll leave it at that.
Thanks a ton Coach.
And btw I know this wasn’t a joke, but it made me laugh for some reason. Just not a phrase I hear every day.
[quote]Christian Thibaudeau wrote:
The way to make money from fitness modeling is to use the visibility . . . to graduate to more lucrative jobs like underwear model.
[/quote]
Hey coach,
I am in the process of setting up a split for my next hypertrophy phase - accumulation then intensification.
This is the first time I have set it up in these phases and from recent experience noticed that I make gains well in both size and strength using wave loading. My question is, am I able to use wave loading during one of these phases? i.e
8,6,4,8,6,4 during an accumulation phase and 6,4,2,6,4,2 during an intensification phase? or are there too many sets to use wave loading during accumulation?
Thanks alot!
GJ
I have a question about an issue that I think has shaped the way I think about diet, although maybe it shouldn’t.
When I’m in ketosis for a while, I feel fine.
But approaching ketosis feels like crap.
So should I avoid having daily carbs in such a way that the body flirts with ketosis rather than actually being in ketosis?
For example, let’s say it takes me less than 30g of carbs to be in ketosis. If I consume 50g, won’t it be worse than consuming 70g, since I’ll be closer to ketosis, but not actually in it?
But at 70g, I won’t be as close to it, and probably won’t have to feel the way some people do when transitioning to it.
All this assuming the carbs are from good sources.
[quote]Christian Thibaudeau wrote:
Furthermore fat would slow down the absorption of protein which is really dumb, post-workout.[/quote]
CT,
Regarding what you wrote above, obviously this is true. However, I am doing a ketogenic diet and I just can’t seem to stomach any combination of glutamine/glycine along with my whey isolate post-workout. I’m talking anything over the 10g/5g (respectively) threshold without nausea, or worse, vomiting. For example, tonight, after a taxing leg workout, I was able to hold down 54g whey, 20g glutamine, 10g glycine, 10g leucine, but was subsequently unable to eat my 6th meal due to extreme nausea.
However, when I do the Palumbo recommendation, i.e. “just eat a normal meal of protein and fat” (to which I add leucine), I feel fine. Am I really short-changing myself that much if I just have 54g whey isolate, 2 tbsp. natural peanut butter, and 10g leucine? I consume roughly 30g BCAAs during my workout, and 8g EAA immediately before and after.
Also, is consuming the leucine with the peanut butter counterintuitive? I know leucine works via triggering a monophasic insulin dump, I am unsure if this is bad while concurrently consuming fat. I’m guessing it’s not, since the whole premise of Biotest’s leucine product is to be taken with meals - regardless of macro breakdown.
Sorry for the lengthy question - I tried to cover everything without writing you a novel.
Tim
Thib,
If using something like the dorsiflexion machine made by Atlantis or the D. A. R. D., how should sets be arranged relative to standing and seated calf work? Would it be best to do a set for each set of seated and standing work done? And with the dorsiflexion work, would you tend to keep reps on the higher end of the scale- 8 and above?
Hi Coach Thibaudeau
I have been reading your articles, replies for a long time now, but theres one thing I was wondering.
How do you feel about raw milk?
As far as I have read, if the milk is directly from the cow, it contains alot of good enzymes and good bacteria, which are removed when the milk has been pasteurized and such things.
It will also contain alot of good A Vitamin,
but unfortunately it has alot of saturated fat.
But isnt this different, when it comes from a organic grass fed cow?.
Like for example eggs? It also has saturated fat,
but good vitamins and such. And it is considered as one of the best food choices.
I look forward to, and hope you will answer:)
Thanks
[quote]Magic-MJ-Music wrote:
Hi Coach Thibaudeau
I have been reading your articles, replies for a long time now, but theres one thing I was wondering.
How do you feel about raw milk?
As far as I have read, if the milk is directly from the cow, it contains alot of good enzymes and good bacteria, which are removed when the milk has been pasteurized and such things.
It will also contain alot of good A Vitamin,
but unfortunately it has alot of saturated fat.
But isnt this different, when it comes from a organic grass fed cow?.
Like for example eggs? It also has saturated fat,
but good vitamins and such. And it is considered as one of the best food choices.
I look forward to, and hope you will answer:)
Thanks :)[/quote]
It’s better than pasteurized milk for some reasons, but as you mentioned, because of the high fat content coupled with the milk sugar (lactose) you can’t have a lot unless you don’t care about your body fat.
And even organic grass fed cow milk has a lot of saturated fat, it’s not the same thing as eggs.
Personally I would not use it unless for someone who has a very hard time gaining weight. Do not forget that excess of vitamin A can be potentially dangerous.
[quote]Christian Thibaudeau wrote:
Magic-MJ-Music wrote:
Hi Coach Thibaudeau
I have been reading your articles, replies for a long time now, but theres one thing I was wondering.
How do you feel about raw milk?
As far as I have read, if the milk is directly from the cow, it contains alot of good enzymes and good bacteria, which are removed when the milk has been pasteurized and such things.
It will also contain alot of good A Vitamin,
but unfortunately it has alot of saturated fat.
But isnt this different, when it comes from a organic grass fed cow?.
Like for example eggs? It also has saturated fat,
but good vitamins and such. And it is considered as one of the best food choices.
I look forward to, and hope you will answer:)
Thanks
It’s better than pasteurized milk for some reasons, but as you mentioned, because of the high fat content coupled with the milk sugar (lactose) you can’t have a lot unless you don’t care about your body fat.
And even organic grass fed cow milk has a lot of saturated fat, it’s not the same thing as eggs.
Personally I would not use it unless for someone who has a very hard time gaining weight. Do not forget that excess of vitamin A can be potentially dangerous.[/quote]
Thank You.
I was actually going to use the raw milk for cutting.
I know you are more into whole foods, because they will keep you full, but it was just and idea I had,
since I was going to cut like this 40/30/30.
As you mention in the text, Vitamin A can be potentially dangerous.
I read a post several pages back, regarding cod liver oil, and vitamin A.
I am also consuming cod liver oil, salmon/fish, eggs and good sources for vitamin A.
When you get most of your Vitamin A from NATURAL sources,
do you have an idea of how much you can ingest, before it gets dangerous?
Thanks again Thibs
Hey Coach,
I’ve been searching online for your Jekyll to Hyde book without any luck. It doesn’t seem to be offered any longer at muscledrivethru.com
Any suggestions on how I can get a hold of a copy? Thanks so much.
[quote]Swamp Monster wrote:
Hey Coach,
I’ve been searching online for your Jekyll to Hyde book without any luck. It doesn’t seem to be offered any longer at muscledrivethru.com
Any suggestions on how I can get a hold of a copy? Thanks so much.[/quote]
I took it off the market
Hi Chris
Would you be able to help me with the below, regarding a product I have brought from you?
Just downloaded and watched Cluster training, which was excellent, really enjoyed it.
Quick question on this
Assuming I wanted to utilise the Level 1 extended 5s approach, could it be structed like this for a 3-4 week period, or would this be to taxing on the CNS in your view?
Day 1
Power Snatches triples and doubles medium to low volume
Back Squats Extended 5s
Day 2
Bench Press Extended 5s
Bent Over Row 3 x 8
Dips 3 x 8
Day 4
Power Cleans triples and doubles medium to low volume
Deadlifts Extended 5s
Day 5
Military Press 3 x 8
Chinups Extended 5s
Curls 3 x 8
Alternatively could you do an extended 5s focus on lower body for one cycle and then do the upper body for the next cycle?
Thanks
Kind Regards
Sam
Coach,
Hope all is well. How necessary are deload weeks, how would you know when they are needed and how would you train during one? Thanks in advance and best wishes.
James