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Why don't you do 2 weeks of 5s or 2 weeks of negatives before SDing?

It's not impossible but it's rare. And it's unlikely to happen on many lifts.

If it makes no difference to eat carbs or fat, why does Lyle continue to design ketogenic diets? It was my understanding that insulin started to play a role at low bf. It made some sense because if you eat the same amount of carbs at 10% or at 30% bf, the effect of inulin can be expected to be...

You're sure? If the CSA of a muscle decreases it should be weaker. And it's unlikely to get stronger while cutting. So..

Do you guys think that if someone doesn't lose strength when cutting he doesn't lose muscle?

I understand that it saves time, but the thing is, why do the 2 sets one right after the other? Why not wait like 1 min between? What advantage does it have? It seems to me that taking 1 min or so would allow the person to have more focus, and also probably more strength, because some of the ATP...

Did this guy die??

Ok Bryan, but do you think it has benefits, except from saving time? The primary concern that I have is can we take as heavy when doing them?

In the gym that I go a lot of people do superset. I was just wondering what's your take on that.

I have to say good mornings have always scared me. I've never tried them however, so.. It's true that sometimes we're scared of exercises and it's not really justified. I think a lot of the injuries that happen because of the guy not being properly warmed up or not being concentrated. In fact...

It's true that opinions differ from person to person. Personaly I think the squat on the smith is terrible. I wrecked my knees twice because of it. Also hard for the lower back. Since I've been doing free squats, I've had no problem at all. About agonist and antagonist muscles, do you think...

A good fat burner may also affect positively the muscle:fat ratio lost.

Could be dangerous indeed. Any other?

What exercises/techniques do you guys think should be avoided because of injury risks? The ones that I know of that don't have a good reputation are: - upright rows - press behind the neck going too low - squats on the smith - stretching to much the shoulder when training the pecs - on...

I agree 100%. But I say that this guy doesn't explain why.

Yeah but this guy says that there's a corelation between CSA and strength. He says that the CAUSE is the CSA and the effect is strength. So he contradicts himself. He doesn't explain why an increase in strength would produce an increase of CSA, he explains the reverse. So following strictly...

This also makes me think of somthing that is said in the article that may not be true. The guy says that being carb depleted makes you weaker. It shouldn't be the case because it is the size of the contractile material that matters, and THAT doesn't change with fluid retention in the muscles...

Here's one thing that I do that has helped me. It's not very common to see that but I feel it really helps. Yes you need to eat, and quite a lot. Apparently from what I read, it takes in the order of 2500 calories to build 1 lb of muscle. Whether this figure is accurate or not it's not sure...

I believe that Bryan more or less agrees with that. He has already said that what determines the gains during a cycle is the difference of load between the starting load and the ending load. This being said, IF you decondition, you can theoretically gain muscle several times with the same load...

Ok, I see. About this adaptation that you talked about, do you think it happens also with HIIT? I mean, since HIIT burns primarily glycogen, do muscles become more accustomed at using fat? Thanks :)