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It would be nice to see if this form of "long-term"-refeeds or diet-breaks works for leaner men as well.  You will remember that I've previously discussed the advantages of cycling your energy intake in both, classic intermittent fasting or alternative-day fasting contexts, as well as refeeds . Just like the protocol that was used in a recent study from the University of Tasmania  (Byrne 2017), all these diets belong to a category of diets that is characterized by what scientists call "intermittent energy restrictions". The latest RCT by Byrne et al. (2017), which has just been published ahead of print , took a slightly novel approach to energy cycling, though. Compared to IF and ADF, regimen, the energy intake in form of very long intervals (weeks vs. days or hours): more specifically, 8x2 weeks of dieting interspersed by 2 weeks on a maintenance diet. Despite these differences, the reasoning behind the study design was pretty much the same bodybuilde...

Wouldn't it be cool if you could simply plug your computer into a USB-slot at the back of your head to read out your energy status...? Ah, no, it wouldn't! It's already scary enough how much Fitbit, Garmin, and co know about us. This is by no means the only problem with metabolic research, these days, but it's one that's really getting on my (and probably also your) nerves. It's all about the sick and obese. It is thus no wonder that you will easily find papers that assess how the Nelson, Mifflin, Harris-Benedict and other equations that are commonly used are off wrt the real energy requirements of the average obese type II diabetic. What you'll be hard-pressed to find, though, is data on their accuracy in athletes. I have addressed this issue before, but with the publication of a recent paper in the  Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research  there's now more data available than from all the previous studies I've seen. The effect of lean...