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One of the advantages of the metabolic diet is an increase in lean body mass without the use of anabolic steroids. Decrease Body Fat Without Sacrificing Lean Mass Unlike the high-carbohydrate diet, when you gain weight on the metabolic diet much less of it is body fat and much more of it is muscle. Increase Strength People on the metabolic diet often find their strength increasing as they are losing weight and body fat.
The metabolic diet’s 5-day, 2-day week is almost like getting in shape for a contest every week. In the weekend carbohydrate-loading part of the diet, you will find out exactly how many hours you can load up on carbohydrate before you begin to smooth out and lose your contest look. Athletes on a high-carbohydrate diet are basically always loading up on carbohydrate foods, so it’s difficult for them to manipulate their diets so their bodies respond well to carbohydrate loading before the ...
If you are a coach or sport scientist looking to find out what leaders in the field are reading, check out the latest issue (Spring 2009) of the USOC’s Olympic Coach E-Magazine. The coaches who offered their top picks included Bob Bowman, coach of Olympian nonpareil Michael Phelps; Guy Baker, U.S. women’s water polo coach; Adam Bleakney, the USOC’s 2007 Paralympic Coach of the Year; and Vern Gambetta, legendary track and field coach. Bleakney named Gambetta’s book Athletic Development: The ...
