Fat Loss (96)
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com Over the next series of articles, I want to look at both physiological and psychological reasons that diets can fail. But before doing that I need to make something very clear: the distinction I’m making between psychology…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com This is a very technical article that I wrote a while back for a now defunct online magazine. If you’re extremely interested in some of the underlying molecular level reasons ‘why’ certain things happen in the body,…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com As much as I would rather continue talking about my dogs and the Austin Humane Shelter, I suppose it’s time to get back to writing about nutrition, training, fat loss and all of the rest. I’ll note…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com Question: I’ve long seen it claimed that cardio has to be done first thing in the morning on an empty stomach for optimal fat loss, is this true? Answer: This is probably one of the most commonly…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com I’ve always loved training related gadgets and hope to look at some of those over the coming months in future articles. While most of what I’ve been interested in related to training (e.g. heart rate monitors or…
Question: I’m familiar with the “true” ketogenic diet of 90% fat which historically is a medical diet used to assist in controlling seizure prone individuals, but it has the added advantage of being a fantastic way to shed weight while keeping…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com In various places on the site, I have made the comment that such things as caloric intake and activity will have to be adjusted based on real-world fat loss. For example, in the Q&A on How to…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com Diets fail for a lot of reasons but one of the primary ones is simply hunger. I discussed this sort of tangentially in the research review Why Do Obese People not Lose More Weight When Treated with…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com Over the years, bodybuilding nutrition has divided itself into three fairly distinct categories (I’m going to leave out the ones I consider voodoo nonsense) which are high-carb/low-fat, moderate carb/moderate fat, and low-carbohydrate. Low carb-diets can be further…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com Having talked generally about fat loss and defined some terms in Fat Loss for Athletes: Part 1, along with examining issues of diet in Fat Loss for Athletes: Part 2, I want to finish out this article…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com In Fat Loss for Athletes: Part 1, I addressed some basic concepts regarding fat loss for athletes including a look at the different ‘categories’ of athletes that I delineate and a hierarchy of factors that can or…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com Losing body fat is often an issue for athletes and there are various and sundry (yes, sundry) reasons that they either want or need to do this. Clearly for the physique sports (bodybuilding, fitness, figure), it’s an…
By Lyle McDonald: www.bodyrecomposition.com Of all athletes in the world, bodybuilders (and other physique oriented folks such as fitness and figure girls) tend to be the most anal compulsive and neurotic about their food intake. Nowhere is this seen more than…
