Ultimate Diet 2.0 by Lyle McDonald 76 pages
What is the Ultimate Diet 2.0? The Ultimate Diet
2.0 is written by Lyle McDonald. In the six years since Dan Duchaine's
book Bodyopus, research into human physiology, nutrition, biochemistry,
etc. has advanced at an amazing and exponential pace. Science is
finally getting to the mechanistic little details of why things
happen in the body. Knowing why things happen in the body allows
for a certain measure of control. The Ultimate Diet 2.0 represents
an integrated approach to all of it. If you are looking for Lyle
McDonald's Ultimate Diet 2.0, we have the Ultimate Diet 2.0 available
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Why Do I need the Ultimate Diet 2.0? Because the Ultimate Diet
2.0 compilation represents both a very old and very new approach
to the problems of dieting to low bodyfat percentages. It is old
in that it builds upon an approach originally developed in the early
80's by bodybuilding guru Dan Duchaine and researcher Michael Zumpano.
It is new in that it applies the most cutting edge research to that
plan, optimizing it to the greatest degree possible.
The Ultimate Diet 2.0 Topics include:
- The evolutionary reasons why dieting to low bodyfat levels is
so hard
- Calorie partitioning: where calories go when you eat them or
come from when you diet.
- The hidden metabolic advantages that elite athletes have, and
how to duplicate them to improve your results
- Fat metabolism, how to optimize fat burning
- Why stubborn fat is so stubborn and how to get rid of it
- The basics of muscular growth and why so many different training
systems can all be right
- An integrated 7 day cycle incorporating the most cutting edge
research to allow maximal fat loss with no muscle loss (some may
gain muscle). This includes a detailed description of diet, training,
supplements and drugs for each day of the cycle.
- Variants on the UD2 for different goals such as mass gains and
endurance performance
- If you're a natural athlete who has wondered why it's so hard
to reach your goals, the UD2 will give you the reasons. More importantly,
it'll give you the solution to those problems.
After Lyle McDonald's last little drug book on Bromocriptine, he
wanted to get back to his main area of interest and real area of
expertise: integrated methods of training and nutrition. Lyle McDonald
will be mentioning some drugs that might be useful along the way,
but that's not the main focus of the Ultimate Diet 2.0 book. Actually,
the best way for the Ultimate Diet 2.0 book to be introduced, is
with a story/history lesson.
The story of the Ultimate Diet 2.0 begins just over twenty years
ago in 1982. That year, Dan Duchaine and Michael Zumpano introduced
the Ultimate Diet to the world of bodybuilding. In a nutshell, the
Ultimate Diet was a 10 day cyclical diet and training plan, incorporating
three different training and eating approaches in a coordinated
fashion. Drug options were suggested since the laws were less stringent
then. It was radical and revolutionary for its time combining cutting
edge science with good old intuition (and maybe a little lucky guesswork)
to create a complete plan for generating extraordinary results in
ordinary people. It achieved something few plans could claim: fat
loss with muscle gain or at the very least fat loss with no muscle
loss. With slight adjustments, mainly in calorie intake, it could
be used for muscle gain with minimal fat gain.
Fifteen years later, the same Dan Duchaine released an "updated"
version of that diet in his seminal book Underground Bodyopus: Militant
Body Recomposition. Now a 7 day plan, without nearly the complexity
as the original Ultimate Diet, Bodyopus kicked off an entirely new
interest in the bodybuilding subculture regarding cyclical diets
and cyclical ketogenic diets in particular. This is where Lyle McDonald
enters the story.
In 1997, Lyle was terribly bored with his life, looking for something
to do. He latched onto the Bodyopus diet like a drowning man grabbing
a life preserver and never looked back. In one sense, it mirrored
Duchaine's original interaction with Zumpano and the Ultimate diet
back in the 80's. At that time, Zumpano was the guru and Duchaine
was the bored detail man looking for something new to do with his
life. In 1997, Dan was the guru and Lyle McDonald was the bored
detail man. That's how Lyle likes to think of it anyhow; he don't
know if Dan saw it like that or not. In any event, what started
as a whim, writing a weekly diary of Lyle McDonald's experiences
on the diet turned into something far more. A couple of years later,
Lyle wrote the be-all, end-all book on ketogenic dieting. Even Dan
admitted that Lyle McDonald knew more about "his" diet than he did
which was as great an honor as Lyle could receive. Lyle McDonald
became the keto-guy (a nickname he still can't shake no matter how
hard he tries) even though he never really advocated them in the
sense that you'd think. Against all odds, considering how badly
it was written and how boring it was to read, the keto book actually
sold decently. If nothing else, it established Lyle McDonald as
a "name" in the industry. A detail obsessed geek, mind you, but
a "name" nonetheless.
A note on the title of this book, the Ultimate Diet 2.0
The title of this book is The Ultimate Diet 2.0. The name has several
meanings. The first is simply one of tribute to Duchaine and Zumpano's
original Ultimate Diet, released all the way back in 1985. If you
can find a copy, it's fascinating reading, even now; they were ahead
of their time by many years. As above, this book is also an update
to that same diet integrating new findings about metabolism, fat
loss and muscle gain to better optimize it. Anyone involved with
computers knows that new versions of stuff get a new number. Hence
2.0. Finally and most hopefully, it will be the last diet you need.
Hence the word "ultimate."
In summary, this is Lyle McDonald's follow-up to The Ketogenic
Diet, a study of low-carb dieting. In his latest effort he expands
on the low-carb study to demonstrate cyclical ketogenic dieting
for intermediate and advanced dieters. It's a short, instantly downloadable
e-book or available in hard copy which is 76 pages in 8x10 format,
a precise guide to manipulating macronutrients and hormones for
optimal body fat to muscle ratios. If the diets that worked for
you in the past are no longer working, this book will explain why
and tell you what to do next.
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