Metabolic Adaptation and Rat Studies

Let's just delve into that a little bit because it is something that Tommy and I came across. I think Mr. Biolane suggested that he reverse diets because it's almost like you have a hypersensitivity to fat gain post-comp. Yeah, he was suggesting that. I think he was basing it off a study where they'd, a rat study, admittedly, where they'd dieted down these rats, then they fed them up, they took them down to the diet again, it took them twice as long to lose the same amount of fat, fed them again. 300 times faster to put the weight back on. the fat back on and there's some elevation in fat storage enzymes that kicks in once you start dieting people and so that sort of so basically like your ability to store fat after you've done a dieting phase is is enhanced correct yeah they talk about that study in the calorie myth by jonathan baylor and um the thing is we have to be very careful with rat studies because we we we that you look at rat studies because they're fast because a rat's lifespan is really short so But we're not rats. So all we can do is kind of get an idea and infer data that may or may not actually work in humans because some of the enzymes are a bit different. Some of the pathways are a bit different. Now, who's going to actually do a long-term study on this? And there are a lot of studies. But the thing is, if you appeal to any type of extreme when you're dieting, you're going to get extreme negative repercussions. So if you do extreme caloric deficits, I'm not a fan of that. I'm a fan of playing the long game. Let's pump you up and find out where we're exceeding your maintenance diet, and now let's pull 5% out. And when that doesn't work, we'll pull another 5% out. So every week we might make those adjustments if you're not hitting your how many grams of weight loss I want per week. And we don't fuck with it unless they're not averaging out properly. Then we determine why are they not averaging out properly, and then we make our adjustments. But like I said, I've never, never in 20 years had somebody blow up after a show. the only the only i've only had three clients blow up and that's because they got pregnant at the show i've never i've never had a girl that's a testament to healthy hormones if they still manage to get pregnant i guess almost every single person i've ever put on stage placed top top three or top five every single one except for two people and um you know all the girls never lost their periods still placed all the even pros wbff pros not losing their periods um three of got pregnant and that was like in a couple of years that the babies don't look like me so that's good so it wasn't it wasn't me i assure you i don't shit where i eat yeah yeah true true yeah but it doesn't it doesn't you don't have to do and i think one of the reasons why people have issues is they're pulling carbs going into a show is the dumbest thing you can do as you get leaner you're able to handle more and more carbs so stop pulling the fat really low or stop pulling the carbs really low that's the dumbest thing you can do then you get girls or guys in that last week and they're eating thousands of grams of carbs trying to fill out and they end up having to resort to a fucking hamburger and french fries and tons of salt and fat to try to fill back out well like you said you pull those carbs out now those those enzymes to turn glucose into glycogen are now low you're not basically all the sugar you're eating you're just running through glycolysis anyways and you're not actually making the backbone the atp you're not storing it as glycogen and you have to do weird, radical things. If you had somebody that was going into a show sitting at 3,000 calories and they're eating 500 grams of carbs, they're probably not going to blow up after the show. No.

Unless they go crazy and binge on a bunch of fat. Yeah.