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I'm confused what meets the definition of high frequency in this forum. Is high frequency defined by the number of workout sessions per week, or the number of times that the full body is trained each week? Given advice on this board that high frequency works well for cutting, should it make...

In response to Noobie's comments that you need to eat a lot of calories to gain weight when training full body 5 times per week, conversely can you expect to lean up fairly well by training this way and consuming around maintenance level calories?

If you are doing the 6x per week style training, how do you incorporate cardio when it comes time for cutting? If you add cardio to the 6x per week weight workouts you'll need to be in the gym more than once per day on average. Or, ist it ok to reduce volume/frequency in order to introduce...

I'm planning to work out 6x per week on the following split routine. Given that working out 6x per week already allows for higher volume than a more basic 3x per week full body routine, I'd just like to check that I'm not taking on too much here. The following exercises are done for 2 worksets...

I can afford time to train once per day, five or six days per week. I also split my workouts, as I find full body workouts too long. In order to cut for a few weeks, would I be best to reduce the frequency of my weight workouts in order to introduce some cardio training sessions each week, or...

Are leg extensions a valuable addition to a routine? The benefit seems to be the potential to build shape/muscle around the knee, while the drawback could be risk of damage to the knee joint. Is it true that extensions can be damaging to the knees and is this time better spent performing another...

I don't agree with some comments here that UD2 cannot be combined with HST training. Admittedly if you use HST workouts in place of UD2 workouts then technically you are not doing UD2, as UD2 is designed to be an integrated diet and workout approach. However the dietary aspect of UD2 is...

Depends on how you are dieting. 150 grams protein per day was the number given by Lyle McDonald as being the amount of protein to maintain nitrogen balance during the adaption period (first 3 weeks) to a ketogenic diet. After about three weeks as little as 50 grams may have a similar effect...

A CKD is just a carb cycling type of diet and you can vary the parameters to suit the goal. I'll soon be starting my bulking season (heading into winter in New Zealand now) and I'll be using a carb cycling approach with HST in order to bulk while minimising fat gain.

Angermeans, one of the CKD or TKD (or even some sort of combination approach) will definitely work better regardless of whether you want to bulk or cut. However you can't really achieve both optimally at the same time. Gaining requires that you are anabolic most of the time, and cutting...

Irrespective of whether your goal is to maintain muscle while losing fat, or to gain lean muscle while minimising fat gain, the CKD approach will outperform a pure keto diet. Technically a ketogenic state is protein sparing and therefore muscle sparing, but assumiming that you are working out...

Is anyone here familiar with John Berardi's Massive Eating program, and more to the point have you tried it and how did it go? For those not familiar with the diet its a high calorie bulking diet where you eat low carb meals before training, and high carb low fat meals after training to produce...