The Warrior Diet

[bigdamray]

Warrior Diet | Strength, Health, Nutrition, Weight Loss, Fitness Training (http://www.warriordiet.com/)

Anyone have any experience with this? Thoughts or opinions?

[JayC]

Never heard of it. Very interesting concept though.. Sounds radical but I'd be interested to hear first hand experiences.

[andrew_plamondon]

From OT :

It's an old equivalent of the Intermittent Fasting approach which would work if your priority is weight maintenance/loss. It doesn't take into account some things such as nutrient timing, macro breakdown and so on.
I think that Intermittent Fasting is an interesting approach.

Basically, there's 1 day of PSMF which is off or low intensity cardio such as walking.
Then 1 day of maintenance or over maintenance cals (at least 1g/lb of protein, at least 2 g/lb of carbs, then you can add fats, protein and carbs however you like to get to the cal intake you want).

It's basically an extreme version of carb/calorie cycling which tries to take the benefits of nutrient timing and fake calorie restriction for health benefits. The main thing I get out of this is to stop trying to be so anal about eating every 2-3 hours or you'll go catabolic. Most of the people doing this also eat "dirty" food so to speak and they find easier to support the low cals by eating less but bigger meals.

See Leangains - Intermittent Fasting for Strength Training and Fat Loss (http://leangains.com/)

[bigdamray]

I don't think there is any junk on this diet. Only organic and natural foods.

[andrew_plamondon]

For the Warrior Diet, that's true. I was talking about the IF approach.
There are some studies in which people were asked to eat only in a certain timeframe during the day (let's say from 6 to 8 pm). Most people lost weight because they couldn't eat enough but many of them could stand this lifestyle.
I'm thinking that you're asking this since you'll have a busy schedule, right ?

[FiletMignon16oz]

From OT :

It's an old equivalent of the Intermittent Fasting approach which would work if your priority is weight maintenance/loss. It doesn't take into account some things such as nutrient timing, macro breakdown and so on.
I think that Intermittent Fasting is an interesting approach.

Basically, there's 1 day of PSMF which is off or low intensity cardio such as walking.
Then 1 day of maintenance or over maintenance cals (at least 1g/lb of protein, at least 2 g/lb of carbs, then you can add fats, protein and carbs however you like to get to the cal intake you want).

It's basically an extreme version of carb/calorie cycling which tries to take the benefits of nutrient timing and fake calorie restriction for health benefits. The main thing I get out of this is to stop trying to be so anal about eating every 2-3 hours or you'll go catabolic. Most of the people doing this also eat "dirty" food so to speak and they find easier to support the low cals by eating less but bigger meals.

See Leangains - Intermittent Fasting for Strength Training and Fat Loss (http://leangains.com/)

This is great!! Thank you. I am definitely trying this. It looks like something that will suit my body type and desired results.

[booey]

Isn't this the diet where you eat one huge meal once a day and basically nothing for the rest, because I guess this is what our ancestors did back in the day (see: my avatar). If so, it's a bunch of bullshit - so many better alternatives.

[Odoyal Rulez]

A guy I work with swears by this concept...ill give it a pass though...i get light headed if im not eating all the time

[FiletMignon16oz]

Isn't this the diet where you eat one huge meal once a day and basically nothing for the rest, because I guess this is what our ancestors did back in the day (see: my avatar). If so, it's a bunch of bullshit - so many better alternatives.


That will be a misrepresentation by oversimplification. Check the Leangains website that AP attached above--it explains the concept.

This stuff works, and I am gonna prove that it does. Although the Leangains guru Martin Ber...whatever his name is, says that BCAA are money down the toilette. Which I happen to disagree with. But hey, you can't win 'em all.

To quote him "For someone like myself, putting aestethics and quality gains (i.e. leangains approach) before a sledgehammer approach (i.e. bulk and cut) to weight gaining, it surely has it's advantages though." The sledgehammer approach doesn't work for a person with my physique.

[andrew_plamondon]

Being strict on the PSMF days ( about 1g/lb of protein, almost no fat/carbs except for non-starchy veggies, fish oil caps ) and you'll be able to be more flexible and less strict on the training days.