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John Berardi Nutrition Tip #17

Posted by admin on 29th November 2008

The Ratio Diet
by Dr. John Berardi

Want to improve body composition, increase the ratio of fat lost to muscle lost during a diet, improve blood lipids (cholesterol and triglycerides), prevent wild fluctuations in blood glucose and insulin, and improve satiety when on a diet? Well, you’re not alone. In fact, Dr Layman and colleagues at the University of Illinois are also interested in helping you accomplish these goals.

In their recent studies, they have demonstrated a myriad of benefits associated with reducing the ratio of carbohydrate to protein in the diet from 3.5g of carbohydrate to every 1g of protein to 1.4g of carbohydrate to every 1g of protein. What does this mean in terms of food intake? Well, check out this handy little chart.

kcal/day Fat grams* Carbohydrate grams Protein grams

4500 kcal 150g 450g 338g
3500 kcal 117g 350g 263g
2500 kcal 83g 250g 188g
1500 kcal 50g 150g 113g

*These numbers assume a diet that contains 30% fat.

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An Interniew With Jimmy Smith

Posted by admin on 24th November 2008

Today I am please to present an interview with Jimmy Smith or in Jimmy’s words it’s a Muscle Building Interrogation. Enjoy!

Muscle Building Interrogation
By Jimmy Smith, CSCS,
The Muscle Bible

Muscle Building Interrogation With Jimmy Smith

Q: Jimmy, you and I were talking earlier about some simple things that people can do to build muscle now.  Can you repeat them?

A: Sure, there are two things that people can do immediately to build muscle

1)      People can focus on both full body training and body part splits. We’ve knocked training “arms” for too long but the only thing that will make us grow is training a muscle with a big amount of volume. At that same time, we can also use an upper body day to get stronger. It is the best of both worlds

2)      People can sleep more. It sounds simple but going to bed by 10:30 and not getting up before 6 am will go a long way in helping us build muscle.

Q: Great advice. Let’s move onto leg training. You told me training legs was the key to growing the whole body. Did you stutter?

A: No, leg training is so essential for growing muscle everywhere.  By training your legs hard you raise the anabolic signals in your body that tell you to grow. Nothing stimulates more muscle heavy squats or deadlifts.  They raise your natural muscle building hormones, which cause you to grow

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Q: Interesting stuff. What are some sets and reps that people can use to grow?

A: Well, there are a few methods that people can use. To build muscle we need to realize that, we have to perform enough volume so we breakdown muscle then build new muscle. So that being said I usually advise sets and reps like 4 sets of 8 reps or 6 sets of 4 reps. Remember, low reps can make us grow to simple because our body adapts to whatever we do for awhile so we need to change it up.

Q: Ok Jimmy, hot seat time. Give my readers one thing to do the next time that they go into the gym to grow.

A: Sure, well if everyone isn’t doing pull-ups or squats then they need to do it right now. My best piece of advice is to tell everyone to do a back off set per exercise. For example, if you are training on the bench press and doing 4 sets of 8 reps then do a 5th set of 20-25 reps. This will push more blood into the muscle which will force more grow.

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Picking The Right PT

Posted by admin on 19th November 2008

The are a lot of personal trainers out there, some very good, some not so good. So how do you pick the right one for you? Here are a couple of things to keep in mind.

- personality – ideally your PT should be friendly, honest and willing to listen. Discuss your goals with them and they should tell you if your goals are achieveable in the timeframe that you set. Further do not expect them to design a program based on your favourite exercises.

- competence – your PT should be able to test your current fitness, design a program based on your goals and current “fitness” level and demonstrate and correct your performance of any exercise in your program. To ascertain this talk to some of their clients (referals are often the way to go) and if you have a chance watch them in action. Do they have the training style that is appropriate for you?

- certification – there are a wide variety of certificates and levels of education within the PT field, however this should be one of your lesser criteria.  As long as your PT is certified and insured, their other attributes are generally more important.

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