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How to Gain Muscle and Lose Fat on the Warrior
Diet
The Principles of Growth
Ori Hofmekler
"How can I keep gaining muscle mass
while losing fat on
The Warrior Diet?"
- I am asked this question all the time now - by people who have reached a
plateau, with no further muscle gain and no other noticeable progress.
Through e-mails and private consultations, I realized that most of these
people already suffer from severe dietary related problems such as fatigue,
lethargy, sluggishness, fat gain, loss of libido, insomnia, irregularity and
a decrease in muscle strength and endurance.
The purpose of this newsletter is to shed some light on the principles of
muscle growth and rejuvenation and the nature of body composition.
Let me start with the reasons why people reach a plateau, or to say it
another way, why people hit the wall.
People hit the wall when their body adaptation to physical stress through
rejuvenation (growth and repair) is impaired.
Growth, proliferation and protein synthesis is being regulated by many
factors such as glands, hormones, enzymes, hormonal receptors, cell membrane
pH, mineral composition, osmotic pressure, outer-cellular plasma
nucleotides, cyclic AMP, cyclic GMP, mitochondrial energy yield and sheer
stress.
To put it simply - growth is more complicated than just shoving in protein
and pumping iron.
The principle of inducing growth is based on strong stimulation that signals
rejuvenation (tissue repair) and proliferation (increase in tissue mass).
The growth stimulation activates an anabolic process through receptors in
the cellular membrane. This stimulation requires carriers such as hormones,
steroids, growth factors and nucleotides can't be fully potentiated without
the activation of cellular membrane receptors.
If the cell membrane receptors are insensitive (such as in the case of
de-sensitized insulin, adrenal or IGF1 receptors) then growth will be
impaired. There is much more to it but for the purpose of understanding the
principles of growth, let me just say for now that cell membrane receptor
activation is critical.
Growth activation depends on the body's ability to re-sensitize or
recuperate its receptors. Recuperation and growth go hand in hand. The point
that I'm trying to make here is that your body needs time to recuperate in
order to resume growth.
The process of recuperation includes daily detoxification, the redesigning
of daily nutrition and diet composition and most importantly the alleviation
of stress on your liver to help regulate protein synthesis and fat burning.
The Warrior Diet gives you just that.
Sometimes it's good to take a step back in order to move two steps forward.
Those who are concerned about losing fat and some muscle mass do not realize
that at that preliminary stage, they have already improved their body
composition (this means the improvement of the ratio of muscle to fat). In
order to get out of a plateau and resume growth, one has to go through a
preliminary stage of detox that often results in a temporary weight loss.
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