Comments on: Training Secrets

By: Bradley Owen

Bradley Owen — Tue, 18 May 2010 23:31:13 +0000

I really bought into the Zone bs in the late 90s. I lost a lot of weight but I looked like a wasted prison camp survivor., like a battered old man on a death march. I could have could have came right out of North Korea. I’m never doin it that extreme again, don’t care how deep cut my abs were.

By: Kris

Kris — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:16:19 +0000

Hey lyle thank you for sharing and writing from your experience. I think I speak for everyone when I say we apperciate your knowledge and understanding and the fact that you share it feely. Thank you

By: TCO

TCO — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:13:45 +0000

Agree whole-heartedly. Makes sense intituitively. Also makes sense in terms of anti-wish fullfillment.

Also, my personal experience from some pretty dramatic, but safe and on program weight loss, was that “energy math works”. I was running 4#/week weight loss, raised daily diet from 1500 to 2000 calories. Guess what: loss rate went to 3#/week. Do the math. It works. Similar examples from adding an extra hour of biking (got the expected loss). Even similar inituitions from getting much smaller (went from 230 to 160) in terms of the lower calories burned by having a smaller body mass.

I think, ESPECIALLY for men, that if they just stay on PLAN (eat enough protein, but then a shitload of salad) that they will drop just fine. I won an online contest…and I didn’t do anything funky. Just followed the damn PLAN!

By: Valerio

Valerio — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:05:19 +0000

Man…

This is one straightforwarding article!
Been laughing at every line, it’s SO TRUE! ahhahahahhahah!

Thanks, thanks, thanks

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:01:46 +0000

Very true..most skinny guys do train like idiots and undereat… Plus they are afraid of gaining a bit fat and want to have those abzz/chest/biceps.. nothing more.. Pitty..

By: Rahim

Rahim — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:56:08 +0000

I competed in T&F competitions for my home country when I was younger, and it always seemed like everyone in individual sports was more aloof and unfriendly than the people with whom I played team handball. The team guys tended to be more gregarious, and I wondered whether it was a case of temperament types (introverts vs. extroverts) being attracted to certain types of activities.

By: RJ

RJ — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:40:47 +0000

I love you… (no homo) I’m slowly going to buy all of your books 2 down, 4(?) to go!

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:04:42 +0000

First, I want to thank you for putting up all the facts without any crap. This stuff is the truth and that is why I will continue to read your articles and books. (and recommend them to others)

One question though: I pretty much understand how to gain muscle. I also pretty much understand how to lose fat. However, how do you do both, because you have to eat a surplus for one and a deficit for another? Do you just have to alternate between gaining and losing, like 2 weeks gaining, 2 weeks losing fat? My body type is about average, not a hard gainer or a fast gainer, and my goal is under 9% bodyfat, which is not that far away for me, while weighing about 195 lbs (I currently weight 188lbs), but I cannot seem to get past where I am at right now.

Thank you very much for your help, I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your writing.

By: Lea

Lea — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:49:03 +0000

aaahahaha. i love this guy! no bullshit. just straight up real factual truth.

best article i’ve ever read.

By: d sun

d sun — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:01:50 +0000

I love those last 2 lines, about quick fixes and secrets and about them not existing; if everyone believed that then it’d be the end of all infomercials for any weight loss/bodybuilding products. And that equation, can be simply reversed to show how one could be in a position in which they are overweight and unhealthy:

no work + consistent bad diet + time = obesity

so to think that there’s an equation out there short of anything that is the exact opposite of the above is illogical.