P90X

I'm guessing you went off the Anabolic Diet because it's hard to train for swimming with low carbs? People like the diet, but the reasoning behind it is just pseudoscience. It has that name (actually I think it got renamed to the Metabolic Diet?) because it supposedly mimics the effects of steroids. Ummm, how? That part never seems to get explained. There's some talk about peaking or manipulating hormones, but if you read the actual published research on these hormones, the diets take quite a leap of imagination. I'm not saying AD (or any other diet) doesn't work. But bodybuilders are often guilty of pretending they are much more precise and scientific than they actually are. Swimmers do this, too! Some things work or appear to work for completely different reasons from the ones you would suppose. There are no diets that mimic anabolics in any way, shape or form. Certain hormones can be manipulated through diet, but these tend to be hormones that control metabolism, hunger, cravings, etc, so basically tricks to help you diet more effectively. The biggest mistake anyone can make, is to attempt to diet like a professional bodybuilder. What they do to get where they are, does not apply to the rest of the general population, for a variety of reasons that should be obvious (hint:they use drugs). If the average individual is looking to lose some fat, they have to cut calories, plain and simple.

I'm guessing you went off the Anabolic Diet because it's hard to train for swimming with low carbs? People like the diet, but the reasoning behind it is just pseudoscience. It has that name (actually I think it got renamed to the Metabolic Diet?) because it supposedly mimics the effects of steroids. Ummm, how? That part never seems to get explained. There's some talk about peaking or manipulating hormones, but if you read the actual published research on these hormones, the diets take quite a leap of imagination. I'm not saying AD (or any other diet) doesn't work. But bodybuilders are often guilty of pretending they are much more precise and scientific than they actually are. Swimmers do this, too! Some things work or appear to work for completely different reasons from the ones you would suppose. There are no diets that mimic anabolics in any way, shape or form. Certain hormones can be manipulated through diet, but these tend to be hormones that control metabolism, hunger, cravings, etc, so basically tricks to help you diet more effectively. The biggest mistake anyone can make, is to attempt to diet like a professional bodybuilder. What they do to get where they are, does not apply to the rest of the general population, for a variety of reasons that should be obvious (hint:they use drugs). If the average individual is looking to lose some fat, they have to cut calories, plain and simple.