My name is Lyle McDonald. For years I've sought out dieting solutions that worked and I'm known in the industry for producing exactly that. I use a combination of scientific research, personal experience (and experimentation), along with the feedback I've gotten from clients, trainers, and my test subjects.

People come to me for the cutting edge of nutrition and training for fat loss, muscle gain, and the science of human performance. My articles, books and newsletter have helped thousands to change their bodies for the better. You can also read my blog.

July 28th, 2008 Fat Loss for Athletes Part 3 is now up. Scroll down for an excerpt.

March 26, 2008

The Stubborn Fat Solution is finally here.

Representing the culmination of over 10 years of research and experimentation, the Stubborn Fat Solution is the absolute cutting edge in approaching the problem of stubborn body fat.

For a number of inter-related physiological reasons (some of which we can address and some of which we can't) men and women have stubborn fat areas. Normally, women's lower body fat and men's ab and low-back fat are the areas that are the biggest trouble to eliminate.

While many simplistic solutions (always seeming to involve estrogen) have been offered, this is a place where simple is simply wrong.

The Stubborn Fat Solution will not only answer every question you might have had about body fat metabolism and what makes stubborn body fat so stubborn, it will give you all of the tools that are needed to get rid of it.

The Stubborn Fat Solution is NOT a specific diet; rather it presents 4 specific protocols (of nutrition and training with some optional supplements) that can be integrated with your current diet and training program to attack and remove stubborn fat.
 

Click here to read a review from Tony Sayer's blog.

Click here to read a review from the Conditioning Research blog.

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January 24, 2008

Revised and Updated Rapid Fat Loss Handbook is now available

At the beginning of 2008, I decided to completely update and revise the original Rapid Fat Loss Handbook. This included adding about 30 pages of additional information along with writing an accompanying home exercise handbook for beginners. Finally, we developed an online calculator to do all of the calculations in the book necessary to set up the diet.

Additions include a completely revised section on meal and diet planning along with extensive additions to the exercise chapters. Other information was updated to reflect changes in current nutritional science.

In addition, due to overwhelming demand, I'm making the book available as an e-book. The book can also be purchased in hardcopy as well as a hardcopy/e-book bundle (you'll get both the hardcopy and e-book versions of the Rapid Fat Loss Handbook).

Both the e-book and hardcopy include the Home Exercise Handbook and Online Calculator access as part of the bundle.

Note: You've probably heard people talking about "Lyle McDonald's PSMF Diet"...well, this is it.

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November 22, 2007

Could mistakes in your protein intake be hurting your progress? The Protein Book has the answers

Questions about dietary protein such as:

• How much protein do athletes need?
• What's the best protein?
• When should protein be consumed around training for optimal results?

and many others are asked continuously. by both athletes and coaches looking to optimize their sports nutrition.

As with most topics pertaining to sports nutrition, the answers to the above questions are context dependent. The type of sport, the goals of the athlete, the specifics of the situation all determine how much protein is required, what protein might be optimal, etc. No single recommendation can possibly be appropriate for all athletes under all situations. As is my way, I cover all these situations and more.

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Fat loss for athletes Part 3

Having talked generally about fat loss and defined some terms in Part 1 of this series, along with examining issues of diet in Part 2, I want to finish out this article series by examining how training can or should be modified. Finally, I want to make a few comments about when in their training year athletes should attempt to lose fat.

5. Training and fat loss

The final issue I want to discuss regarding fat loss for athletes is how training can or should be modified while dieting. Again, this is a place where a lot of people make mistakes and where (especially given the role of anabolics in bodybuilding preparation since about the 80’s) following bodybuilders can be problematic. I’ll come back to this below.

Once again, I’m going to address the three different general categories of athletes that I described in Part 1 of this series. Additionally, I’m going to look at training in terms of both weight room work (of any sort) and metabolic work (this includes both standard aerobic training along with intervals).

Weight training can, of course, be subdivided into several different categories. From very heavy, low-repetition strength or power work (5’s or less) to more bodybuilding oriented hypertrophy work (generally 6-15 reps) to higher rep, metabolic-style depletion work (15-20 reps or more, usually with short rest periods), weight training covers a lot of ground.

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