Recent content by Claudio

I am moving towards wanting to do more olympic lifting but there is a real lack of information out there. Whereas I can see a hundred different types of powerlifting training articles the only stuff on olympic lifting apart from an article at deepsquatter.com for beginners mostly relates to...

I might be wrong and will look up Ud2 to see exactly what it saysbut I am pretty sure Lyle says in there that the reason E/C is effective is partly because it does decrease insulin sensitivity which is beneficial on a diet so that free fatty acids are less likely to be stored again as fat. As...

Contrary to no.4 on Hobbs' list Lyle states that E/C will decrease insulin sensitivity.

I have a training log over at avant labs detailing my HST/UD2 hybrid. I am using the mass version of UD2 and sticking to HST principles. So far, I am leaner AND have gained muscle. And this was from a starting position of me being lean as well. So I would disagree that the two can't be combined...

Chupa - tt was saying he'd add cardio because he was gonna do the diet while training in HST fashion so he needed the extra cardio to aid depletion. On a personal note I think, after 3 months of dieting I will give the maintenance/growth version of the diet a runout since I think this will...

Blade - Is that how you will incorporate the diet into HST, by making use of large increments and 1 week cycles? Even then a heavy day of 15's is far off his saturday power w/o but allowances have to be made I guess. Aaron - Are you the powerlifter he quotes in the book who lost weight while...

I am just halfway reading the book but flicking ahead a few chapters can see as well that Lyle is recommending a style training very unlike HST. I am surprised at this since I have seen him commend HST very highly elsewhere. Aaron - What style of training did you utilise while on the UD2? I...

600mg a day?? LOL I've been taking upto a gram of caffeine a day the last few days. No wonder I feel a little dizzy at times. Trouble is I can't separate the caffeine from the ephedrine 'til a new separate combo I've ordered. :confused:

How high have people gone with epedrine doses. I know Lyle McDonald has gone upto 100mg a day. Assuming you "felt" okay and it didn't disturb sleep how much higher could you go? I think I recall Lyle speculating that at even higher dosages you could possibly expect to see some muscle...

That is quite interesting. It helps confirm something I always felt intuitively. Oddly enough I was speaking to a bodybuilder in my gym today who competes here in Great Britain who felt he didn't need refeeds because his natural setpoint is so low (he thinks about 6%) that if he started with...

I have read quite a lot on refeeds but one thing I haven't found is how important they are when dieting when you are still above your setpoint. For example, say my setpoint is 8% but I start my diet at 12% with the intention of getting to 6%. Should I implement refeeds straight away or wait...

Re: Therma - I am only using it 'cos I bought it a long ago. I am gonna buy some HCL on-line - I've never really thought these herbal extracts gave the same "kick" as HCL so I am guesing they work less well on a diet too. I guess 30 pills would leave me ripped or dead. Probably both:)

Thanks Grasik - that clears things up and prevents me taking 30 pills a days:) drivethrough guy - the correct amount of ephedrine is 10mg per pill based on what you say. 336 mg is standardized to 6% I ephedrine I believe.

I am taking thermapro capsules by Prolab right now. Only thing is I am unsure how much of the active herb (sida cordifolia) equates to ephedrine. The labels says each capsule contains 400mg (0.8% ephedrine). This tells me one capsule equates to 32mmg of ephedrine yet on another part of the...

Why would this be the case?