My name is Lyle McDonald. For years I've sought out dieting solutions that worked and I'm known in the industry for producing exactly that. I use a combination of scientific research, personal experience (and experimentation), along with the feedback I've gotten from clients, trainers, and my test subjects.

People come to me for the cutting edge of nutrition and training for fat loss, muscle gain, and the science of human performance. My articles, books and newsletter have helped thousands to change their bodies for the better. You can also read my blog.

May 2, 2008 There's a new feature article below, scroll down to read an excerpt.

March 26, 2008

The Stubborn Fat Solution is finally here.

Representing the culmination of over 10 years of research and experimentation, the Stubborn Fat Solution is the absolute cutting edge in approaching the problem of stubborn body fat.

For a number of inter-related physiological reasons (some of which we can address and some of which we can't) men and women have stubborn fat areas. Normally, women's lower body fat and men's ab and low-back fat are the areas that are the biggest trouble to eliminate.

While many simplistic solutions (always seeming to involve estrogen) have been offered, this is a place where simple is simply wrong.

The Stubborn Fat Solution will not only answer every question you might have had about body fat metabolism and what makes stubborn body fat so stubborn, it will give you all of the tools that are needed to get rid of it.

The Stubborn Fat Solution is NOT a specific diet; rather it presents 4 specific protocols (of nutrition and training with some optional supplements) that can be integrated with your current diet and training program to attack and remove stubborn fat.
 

Click here to read a review from Tony Sayer's blog.

Click here to read a review from the Conditioning Research blog.

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January 24, 2008

Revised and Updated Rapid Fat Loss Handbook is now available

At the beginning of 2008, I decided to completely update and revise the original Rapid Fat Loss Handbook. This included adding about 30 pages of additional information along with writing an accompanying home exercise handbook for beginners. Finally, we developed an online calculator to do all of the calculations in the book necessary to set up the diet.

Additions include a completely revised section on meal and diet planning along with extensive additions to the exercise chapters. Other information was updated to reflect changes in current nutritional science.

In addition, due to overwhelming demand, I'm making the book available as an e-book. The book can also be purchased in hardcopy as well as a hardcopy/e-book bundle (you'll get both the hardcopy and e-book versions of the Rapid Fat Loss Handbook).

Both the e-book and hardcopy include the Home Exercise Handbook and Online Calculator access as part of the bundle.

Note: You've probably heard people talking about "Lyle McDonald's PSMF Diet"...well, this is it.

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November 22, 2007

Could mistakes in your protein intake be hurting your progress? The Protein Book has the answers

Questions about dietary protein such as:

• How much protein do athletes need?
• What's the best protein?
• When should protein be consumed around training for optimal results?

and many others are asked continuously. by both athletes and coaches looking to optimize their sports nutrition.

As with most topics pertaining to sports nutrition, the answers to the above questions are context dependent. The type of sport, the goals of the athlete, the specifics of the situation all determine how much protein is required, what protein might be optimal, etc. No single recommendation can possibly be appropriate for all athletes under all situations. As is my way, I cover all these situations and more.

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Steady State Aerobics vs. Interval Training Part 2

In the first part of this article, I defined some terms and examined various pros and cons of both interval and steady state training. In this issue, I want to look at which type of activity might be best under certain specific training circumstances (note again: the focus here is on training for fat loss).

A couple of random comments

As mentioned in Part 1, interval training hurts. It's difficult and you have to be willing to push to make them effective. Put differently, if someone is not going to work sufficiently hard at interval training, then there's really no question about intervals versus aerobics. A half-effort interval workout doesn't accomplish any of the things that interval training is trying to accomplish; if you aren't willing to push yourself on the intervals, you should simply do regular aerobic training.

And, as mentioned in Part 1, thousands of people have lost fat without ever doing intervals. So while intervals may be more time efficient, and may generate more fat loss for the time invested, there's certainly no requirement to do them to get leaned out. Can they be more effective under specific conditions? Absolutely. Are they mandatory to get lean? Of course not.

Additionally, I want to point out that intervals are not a year round kind of thing, even if that's how people are using them. Endurance athletes typically only include them for intensive periods of 3-4 weeks, or occasionally for periods of up to 8 weeks. Yet somehow general fitness exercises are trying to do intervals year round. Folks shouldn't be dieting more than 6-8 weeks without a break in the first place, they sure as shit shouldn't be doing intervals for more than that without a break.

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