4) Despite my aversion to very high carbs, I decided to make my WO days more compliant
with the Leangains recommendation of low fat - high carb for a better anabolic effect.
A better term for this would be a «refeed», which is something that is done every training day
with the leangains method.
With Leangains, you're fasting every single day.
With Leangains, for example, you take 10g of BCAAs before training, and take 10g every couple hours until you eat your first meal (although it's recommended to eat a large post-workout meal).
which is why i had problems
with leangains.
With the Leangains Protocol, you are recommended to skip this meal altogether as part of your 16 - hour fast.
So in 2006, he came up
with the Leangains Protocol.
So,
with the Leangains Protocol, you can pursue two goals.
Not exact matches
As Berkhan designed the
Leangains for bodybuilders, it is meant to be used in conjunction
with very specific macronutrients and meal times.
When I began my
Leangains journey, I set my own protein in accordance
with the 1 gram per pound of LBM recommendation.
Since it advocates eating lean proteins and whole, unprocessed foods and complementing meals
with workouts,
Leangains is as healthy as it gets when it comes to intermittent fasting diets.
I mentioned in my first video about intermittent fasting (
Leangains, 8 hour diet, Eat Stop Eat, Warrior Diet, Quantum Eating) that many women have problems
with fasting and I decided that it needed its own video as it's a very complicated subject.
The
Leangains method is geared towards people who are involved in fitness and strength training,
with a focus on getting as lean and as strong as possible.
Leangains calls for a general calorie restriction combined
with a daily, 16 hour fast.
Since you are restricted in your calories to begin
with when using
Leangains, if you start throwing 24 hour fasts into the mix, hormonal patterns will get all screwed up.
Martin Berkhan, the mastermind behind
Leangains, recommends this schedule as tested
with his clients.
In its simplest terms the
Leangains Method is calorie and carb cycling, centered around high intensity / low volume resistance training, coupled
with a daily 16/8 fast.
When the results don't come fast enough they start freaking out and changing things the wrong way and end up
with a bastardized version, but still call it
Leangains, and then dismiss
Leangains as not being optimal.
Happy
with my cholesterol, I started the
Leangains protocol back in Nov 2011 which calls for IF (16 hour fasts daily) and carb / calorie cycling.
Spend a few hours in / r / Fitness and its related sub-reddits (/ r /
leangains, / r / paleo) and you'll come up
with dozens of ideas for a book (example: The Butter and Bacon Diet: Losing Weight With Keto, inspired by / r / ke
with dozens of ideas for a book (example: The Butter and Bacon Diet: Losing Weight
With Keto, inspired by / r / ke
With Keto, inspired by / r / keto).