Two modified ketogenic diets that include carbohydrates to support high intensity training
My name is Lyle McDonald, I'm an exercise physiologist and research nerd. I became interested in low-carbohydrate diets over 10 years ago when I used one myself to lose fat. However, as I delved more into them, I realized that most books written about low-carbohydrate (aka ketogenic) diets were miserably flawed.
Either they presented the diet as a magic, 'better than sex and sunshine', or they presented it as a death warrant. But, in my experience, the truth of the matter is usually between those two extremes so I set out to determine for myself what the research actually said about low-carbohydrate diets. It took me over two years of research and writing, culminating in this, my first book.
The Ketogenic Diet is the first and only book to examine in-depth the scientific evidence regarding low-carbohydrate/ketogenic diets. At 325 pages and containing over 600 scientific references, this will be your complete reference for ketogenic diets.
You'll learn:
The details of human fuel utilziation and how they change on a ketogenic diet
How the body adapts to ketosis, including a detailed discussion of protein sparing
How the ketogenic diet affects body composition
The effect of ketosis on all tissues in the body
How the ketogenic diet affects cholesterol levels
How to optimize the ketogenic diet for different goals such a fat loss, bodybuilding or endurance training
The basics of exercise physiology for aerobic, interval and weight training
How different types of exercise affects fat loss
I want to make it very clear that the ketogenic diet is meant as a reference manual for low-carbohdyrate diets; it is unlike any other book on low-carbohdyrate diets that you have ever read or seen. It doesn't contain food lists or recipes, it isn't filled with a lot of hype over how great low-carbohydrate dieting is; nor is it filled with how bad for you the diet it. Rather, it is an objective scientific examination of the topic of low-carbohydrate dieting. However, it's not a book filled with nothing but dry theory.
The Ketogenic Diet includes:
Two modified ketogenic diets that include carbohydrates (to support high intensity training) while still allowing the adaptations to ketosis to occur
Basic endurance training guidelines, including interval training
How to weight train as a beginner, intermediate or advanced trainee
How to use the ketogenic diet to prepare for a bodybuilding contest
What supplements are useful during the different phases of a ketogenic diet
