Nutrition (166)
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com Note: This is an excerpt from The Ultimate Diet 2.0. At a very fundamental level, the problem that natural bodybuilders and athletes have is one of partitioning; that is, where the calories go when you eat more…
Introduction For many years (decades?) a common suggestion was that one should attempt to gain some muscle mass mass (through resistance training and possibly overeating) prior to beginning a diet. Well meaning individuals would suggest you spent 3-4 weeks or more…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com In recent years, there has been huge interest in the topic of around workout nutrition for promoting optimal gains in strength and muscle size (prior to that, most interest had to to with recovery from exhaustive…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com The issue of meal frequency for muscle mass gains would seem to be pretty well decided, right? Bodybuilders have been pushing for 6 (or more) meals per day spread out every 2.5-3 hours for decades and…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com Because of the primary focus of my books and many of my article topics I tend to get tagged as the fat-loss guy more often than not; but nutrition and training for muscle gain is actually…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com In The Baseline Diet: Part 1, I discussed three of the primary aspects of the baseline diet: meal frequency, caloric intake and water intake and I want to recap here briefly. In terms of meal frequency, a…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com Preamble: I originally wrote this piece 10 years ago and have done rewrites to it over the years as the knowledge base and my own opinions have changed about things. I’d note that, the changes I’ve…
When it comes to fat loss there is simply no end to the diet programs, exercise programs and diet tablets out there, so losing body fat should be real easy yes? Well many of you reading this will have tried dieting…
By Alan Aragon: www.alanaragonblog.com / http://www.printfection.com/brainygear (clothing line) Introduction A longstanding belief in fitness circles is that the body can only use a certain amount of protein per meal, and the excess is either oxidized or excreted. The ballpark range…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com In A Primer on Dietary Fats – Part 1, I looked at some basic concepts related to dietary fat/lipids including the different primary types of lipid (triglycerides, cholesterol and the ‘other stuff’) as well as the difference…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com For the past 30 years or so, ever since people started talking about cholesterol and heart disease, there has been a combination of concern and confusion over the topic of dietary fats in the diet. In…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com Q: I read in quite a lot of places that fish oil capsules or cod liver oil are a great supplement for controlling inflammation and improving nutrient partitioning, but no one gives any information about dosing.…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com In a Primer on Dietary Carbohydrates – Part 1, I took a brief look at what carbohydrates are and listed the three primary categories of dietary carbohydrates which are monosaccharides, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides. As well, I looked…
