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If You Go "High Carb", You Better Go Really High! Seven Meals/Day, More than 800g of Carbs, Less Than 50g of Fat & 1000kcal Over Maintenance and Still "Lean Gains"!

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Image 1: This picture of Lee Priest, in the "off-season" is a symbol for the classic "bulking" vs. "dieting" cycles. Yet while the artificially enhanced IFBB-pros use this practice to get more muscular every year, many amateurs use their "bulking phase" as an excuse to go totally havoc on food - and the results are identical to those of their sedentary peers: Obesity, diabetes, heart disease. If the term "low carb flu" was not already used to refer to the (allegedly) transient state of weakness and general malaise, when people are switching from a "regular" (usually "high carb") to a low-, let alone no-carb diet, I would have used it to refer to an infectious brain disease. A disease that has befallen more and more formerly healthy, lean physical culturists who are now complaining about "chronic fatigue syndrome" and "adrenal burnout". It is a disease that is - yet again - the consequence of b...

Lose More than 2 Pounds of Fat-Mass in Less than 30 Minutes: The Illusiveness of Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis

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Wouldn't it be nice to burn more than 2 pounds of body-fat within 30 minutes of exercise? Well, according to your body impedance scale this is easily possible! You would even gain 1 pound of solid muscle... In a recent study Selma Civar Yavuz (Yavuz. 2011) had 52 healthy volunteers perform an exhaustive treadmill exercise (Bruce test) and evaluated the body composition changes by the means of bioelectrical impedance analysis. The results summarized in Table 1 are amazing: Table 1: Comparison of the body mass index (BMI), fat mass (FTM), fat free mass (FFM), total body water (TBW) and bioelectrical impedance measurements taken before and after the exercises. What is amazing about these results is yet not the amount of fat the subjects burned in <30 min of running. Its rather the inaccuracy of the impedance analysis. In view of the results of this study you better throw your expensive body-fat scale out of the window and revert to using an old fashioned tape measure to ...
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