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How to Gain Muscle and Lose
Fat on the Warrior Diet
The Principles of Growth
Ori Hofmekler
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"How can I keep
gaining muscle mass while losing fat on
The Warrior Diet?"
- I am asked this question all the time now - by people who have reached
a plateau, with no further muscle gain and no other noticeable progress.
Through e-mails and private consultations, I realized that most of these
people already suffer from severe dietary related problems such as
fatigue, lethargy, sluggishness, fat gain, loss of libido, insomnia,
irregularity and a decrease in muscle strength and endurance.
The purpose of this newsletter is to shed some light on the principles
of muscle growth and rejuvenation and the nature of body composition.
Let me start with the reasons why people reach a plateau, or to say it
another way, why people hit the wall.
People hit the wall when their body adaptation to physical stress
through rejuvenation (growth and repair) is impaired.
Growth, proliferation and protein synthesis is being regulated by many
factors such as glands, hormones, enzymes, hormonal receptors, cell
membrane pH, mineral composition, osmotic pressure, outer-cellular
plasma nucleotides, cyclic AMP, cyclic GMP, mitochondrial energy yield
and sheer stress.
To put it simply - growth is more complicated than just shoving in
protein and pumping iron.
The principle of inducing growth is based on strong stimulation that
signals rejuvenation (tissue repair) and proliferation (increase in
tissue mass). The growth stimulation activates an anabolic process
through receptors in the cellular membrane. This stimulation requires
carriers such as hormones, steroids, growth factors and nucleotides
can't be fully potentiated without the activation of cellular membrane
receptors.
If the cell membrane receptors are insensitive (such as in the case of
de-sensitized insulin, adrenal or IGF1 receptors) then growth will be
impaired. There is much more to it but for the purpose of understanding
the principles of growth, let me just say for now that cell membrane
receptor activation is critical.
Growth activation depends on the body's ability to re-sensitize or
recuperate its receptors. Recuperation and growth go hand in hand. The
point that I'm trying to make here is that your body needs time to
recuperate in order to resume growth.
The process of recuperation includes daily detoxification, the
redesigning of daily nutrition and diet composition and most importantly
the alleviation of stress on your liver to help regulate protein
synthesis and fat burning.
The Warrior Diet
gives you just that.
Sometimes it's good to take a step back in order to move two steps
forward. Those who are concerned about losing fat and some muscle mass
do not realize that at that preliminary stage, they have already
improved their body composition (this means the improvement of the ratio
of muscle to fat). In order to get out of a plateau and resume growth,
one has to go through a preliminary stage of detox that often results in
a temporary weight loss.
The Myth of Protein
Many people reach a plateau in spite of consuming monstrous amounts of
protein, mostly from commercial protein powders. Those who consume 300 -
400g of protein per day don’t realize that this is one of the reasons
why they have stagnated.
Too much processed protein creates a protein imbalance that leads to --
guess what -- amino acid deficiency!
Moreover, in order to get rid of the extra aminos, the body converts
them into energy or fat while taxing the liver with toxic byproducts of
protein breakdown.
Low Carb Products
Most low carb products have ingredients that can seriously inhibit fat
burning or glycolysis (the conversion of sugar into energy). Glycerin,
ethanol and sorbitol are common ingredients in most low carb protein
products. These chemicals can have a devastating effect on your liver's
ability to regulate fat and sugar metabolism.
The subject of growth is intriguing and deserves much more attention.
Nevertheless, in order to simplify things let me offer you twelve basic
tips to help maximize your muscle growth while burning fat:
- DETOX!
Undereating during the day by ingesting live whole
vegetables, fruits and their juices will help accelerate
detoxification.
- Take 2 to 3
weeks off from eating processed foods and eat whole
foods instead.
- You may be
overtrained. Take a break and see if that helps.
- Stay away from
low carb protein products that contain glycerin.
- Minimize
alcohol consumption.
- Carbs are not
the bad guy! Chronic carb restriction can slow your
thyroid and impair growth.
- Keep the good
fat coming. EFA from flax and primrose oils and phospho-lipids
from soy lecithin are essential for cellular membranes
and play a critical role in the regulation of hormonal
and cellular functions.
- Rotate among
full days of undereating and full days of overeating.
Undereating will potentiate the body to turn on the
anabolic switch. Overeating will activate the final
stimuli.
- Protect your
mitochondrial DNA with antioxidants (most importantly
glutathione precursors, SOD precursors and lipoic acid).
- Protect your
bottom line with multivitamin and mineral
supplementation.
- Avoid chronic
sodium restriction. Sodium is necessary for growth.
- Take it easy
with creatine to avoid impairment of the body's own
ability to produce creatine.
These are a few basic tips that
will hopefully help you break out of stagnation. Let me note here that
following the above recommendations will naturally accelerate metabolic
efficiency that will result in fat loss.
Note:
Mitochondrial high-energy yield in the form of ATP is critical for
growth and overall rejuvenation. Thus, protecting your mitochondrial DNA
will keep your energy level high while slowing the aging process and
keep you growing.
Dragon Door's author Ori Hofmekler is now offering personal phone
consultations to help you optimize the benefits of
The Warrior Diet
lifestyle program. For more information contact Ori Hofmekler directly
by
emailing him at:
ori@warriordiet.com or calling him toll-free at:
866-WAR-DIET. Please note that you will be making these arrangements
through
Ori Hofmekler and WarriorDiet, LLC. Dragon Door Publications is not
handling
any aspect of your agreement for consultation services with Ori
Hofmekler.
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