fat. In fact, high dietary fat is instrumental in increasing lipolysis or the breakdown of fat^1 and
the resulting loss of bodyfat. We’ve also found that the bodybuilder will maintain more lean
body mass during the cutting phase of a diet.
On the high carb diet, if you exercise correctly and do everything else right, you’ll find that
when you lose weight, about 60 percent of it is fat and 40 percent muscle. You may get ripped,
but you’re much smaller than you could be. On the high fat diet, we’ve found those percentages
go way down to 90 percent fat and 10 percent muscle, and that’s a real boon for the bodybuilder
who wants to maintain muscle as he cuts down. With the high fat diet, you get down to the weight
you want but find yourself maintaining a lot more lean body mass. You’re bigger and stronger.
Take two athletes, one on the high carb diet and one on the Anabolic Diet, have them gain
10 pounds, and you’ll find the one on the Anabolic Diet gaining the larger percentage of muscle.
Likewise, when you lose weight, the athlete on the Anabolic Diet will lose far less muscle than
the athlete sold on high carbs. Which diet would you rather be on?
Feeling Stronger While Losing Bodyfat: This stands to reason. Strength is proportional to muscle
mass. When you’re on the high carb diet, sacrificing lean mass to get cut, you’re obviously going
to feel weaker. Because the Anabolic Diet cycles in a carb loading phase every week to stimulate
insulin production and trigger growth, you also don’t find yourself getting into the psychological
doldrums you get following one diet all the way through each week. There’s a variety in your diet,
and this will aid you in being more energetic and committed than you’d be on the high carb diet.
Maximizing The Effects of Endogenous Anabolic Hormones: This diet maximizes the serum levels
of testosterone, growth hormone and insulin to promote growth. It basically conditions your
hormonal system to create an endogenous (natural) anabolic (growth producing) environment.
It maximizes the effect of these 3 anabolic hormones 24 hours a day because, contrary to popular
belief, you don’t only build muscle after a workout but during a workout as well.
This isn’t easy. Many hormones are reactive to others. For instance, as insulin goes up, growth
hormone may decrease. If insulin decreases, growth hormone will increase. The two substances
generally don’t work together, but they can. If you can increase both substances, you’ll get a
better anabolic effect than with an increase in one substance alone.
Later we’ll provide some supplements that you can use with the Anabolic Diet that will help
in increasing insulin, testosterone and growth hormone as needed. You’ll find 2 of our formulas
to be targeted for use before, during and immediately after your workouts. This is especially
important because of the decrease in serum testosterone and growth hormone that can occur
during and after a workout.
At the cellular level in the body, you need the anabolic hormones elevated so they’ll drive amino
acids into the cell for protein formation. That’s how you get growth. The Anabolic Diet, the weekly
cycling it incorporates, and supplements will work to do this before, during and after your workout.
Increase In Strength: People on the Anabolic Diet often find that, as they’re losing weight and
bodyfat, strength increases. Most bodybuilders find this amazing. They know that when they
lose weight, they’re also losing muscle and strength. But with the Anabolic Diet, they’re losing
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