Re: warvader: fat intake

Thanks Warvader, many great points that I will ponder.

Yesterday I was on the Testosterone forum, reading when I could on the warrior diet, and I found out it's not a wise thing to do. Too many people there bashing it. And people who've not even studied it, let alone tried it. Still it left me feeling confused, so I'm out of there!

It's a lot better having real experienced people like you around!

About my cardio, whenever it's long duration, I bicycle for 2 hours. The reason I didn't entirely switch to intervals only is that I practice martial arts,and I also want to be able to train for 2 hours straight. Martial arts are a lot about bursts of energy, but ironically enough the trainings are also about being able to withstand gruesome, 2 hour get-down-and-dirty sessions.

That's why my uneducated feeling suggests not to get entierly rid of long duration cardio.

I know that as to weight loss, intervals are a lot better. Al Sears says they train your body to metabolise carbs as glycogene not as fat, as they deplete your muscle of their glycogene stores. He further states that long duration cardio, because it uses fat as fuel, not glycogene, trains your body to stock fat.

Do you feel switching to intervals altogether is still congruent with my (endurance) goal?

As to intervals promoting a healthy blood pressure, it's a good thing to know; I guess the Warrior diet itself is also part of it. Some MD guy whose name eludes me at the moment has a free e-book about his diet on the net. It is really similar to the warrior diet, except he doesn't eat at all during the day (and so doesn't care much about catabolism). He says if you wonder wether undereating and overeating phases are health promoting, monitor you blood pressure before starting on the diet and a few weeks into it, and see what you see. Well not having the proper equipement I'll have to wait until I see my GP, but I think it's a good idea.

Some other bloke said that a good way to discover wether a diet is good for you or not is to have bloodwork done. Do you also have that kind of before-after results regarding bloodwork, Warvader?

Just one more thing: about coffee. I see many contratictory studies about caffein. Some say it mimics Sugar in the bloodstream and so triggers your insulin (something we obviously don't want to do in the UE phase), others say the opposite and indeed say caffein protects the liver and me prevent diabetes.

What's your take on that?

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