Male Metabolic Blueprint – Metabolic Effect

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The Banana Effect

I remember thinking, “I am doing everything right? Why am I regaining this weight again?”

One of the things that was most problematic is that the approach I was taking eventually always led to a binge of some sort.

As an example, I would stay away from bananas because they “had too many carbs” but then as a result I would end up gorging and go on a burger and cheesecake binge a couple days later!!

After seeing this phenomena play out in patient after patient, I gave it a name. I have come to call this phenomenon “the banana effect!” And not surprisingly, men get it bad.

I started to realize there was a reason I could not stay disciplined.

But I kept “eating clean” and following low carb, ketogenic and paleo diets. And I kept working out like crazy despite having little motivation and feeling like crap.

In fact, I used to pride myself on the fact that I did the hardest and heaviest workouts out of anyone I knew. I once did a workout called “The Monster Workout” that entailed doing 4 rounds as fast as possible of 10 rep max on squat (405), deadlift (~500), bench (120 dbs) and powerclean (225).

If you have ever done any workout using true 10 rep max weight, you know how brutal this would be.

I am not kidding when I say it took me a month to recover from that workout. Within two days I was in bed with the worst fatigue and had no motivation to train for weeks.

These types of workouts would have a boomerang type effect on my energy and motivation. I would train so hard that I would dread going to the gym the next day.

It was the workout equivalent of the banana effect.

I got myself into a very bad place with diet and exercise. It was all or nothing which almost always led to nothing. My weight skyrocketed and I was once again fat and fatigued.

The Solution Was Staring Me In The Face

I would love to tell you things started to turnaround right away, but truth is I had more than a handful of “start-overs” in my thirties. You know what a “start-over” is right?

That situation where you “mess up” and tell yourself you will “start-over” on Monday? That is what I was doing.

But these “start-overs” started to morph into something I was not expecting. I would eat clean during the week and be incredibly disciplined and then I would splurge on the weekend eating double the calories I consumed during the week.

I was feeling like crap. My workouts during the week sucked because I was in an insulin coma brain fog. When you eat like that you feel ok that day, but crappy the next.

But then something happened. One week I got super busy. I stayed on my diet but did only mostly cardio during the week. I did not have time to get my weight training in.

In the past I would train during the week and take off on the weekend. But this particular week I did almost the exact opposite. I hit the weights hard on the weekend.

Something pretty magical happened almost immediately.

When I was young and I would be engaged in a good workout I would feel energy surges all through my body. I would feel strong and while the workouts were challenging, I completed them with intensity.

It had been years since I felt that kind of energy. Well, this particular weekend I had it. I crushed it in the weight room.

Starve The Fat, Feed The Lean

It made such an impact on me, I decided to try the same thing again the next week. I remembered in my younger years many bodybuilders would use a similar approach.

They would take a few weeks and focus on cutting calories down, they would also lift lighter and less intensely and do more cardio. This was their “cutting phase.”

Then they would spend several weeks in a “bulking phase.” This meant big eating and big lifting.

I realized this new approach was similar in concept, but condensed the cutting/bulking cycle into a one week. I would deplete during the week, and then eat big and train big on the weekend.

It worked like a champ!! Sometimes if I was really busy I would use this to my advantage and take a week, or even two off, from any intense exercise. Opting instead for something I now call ELEL (eat less, exercise less).

Learning how to cycle my diet in this way allowed me to start to train like I did when I was young again. I could bring intensity to the gym. It also added muscle and burned fat off my body at the same time, something that is incredibly difficult to do.

I started using the same approach on my male clients who did not respond to the more traditional way. The approach had the same impact. They felt better, trained harder and started to look better almost immediately.

Busy executives who traveled during the week loved it and thrived on it.

Of course, old habits die hard and I would frequently deviate from this magic mixture of training and eating. Whenever I did, I would overtrain and start feeling that familiar heavy brain fog and fatigue. The weight would come on again almost overnight.

Take a look at some recent before and after pictures. These were taken about a year apart. The picture on the right was a after a long two years of stress and getting off this natural training cycle.

The picture on the right came after a period of de-stressing my system, and then moving back into a cycling diet like the one I described above.

Most of the above results game within 3 months. That is how fast I have seen this approach work for me and others.

So how do you start implementing this for yourself?

Well, I have the solution for you. The exact program I have used for myself and countless others.

But before I share it with you, let me tell you why it is so powerful and how I created it.

An Individualized Approach

I have twenty five years in the personal training industry, a degree in biochemistry and I earned a doctorate in natural medicine. All of this education helped me to understand what most people miss.

Imagine working with real people like me or you, who are struggling with unrelenting fatigue, sleep issues, weight gain and other issues.

Imagine you are tasked with helping them. And imagine you understand all the mental hurdles associated with the necessary changes they must make. Then, through trial and error, you realize that is only a small piece of the puzzle.

It is not just a matter of discovering what works and what doesn’t, it is a matter of being able to put things together in a way that is simple, easy to apply in real life and still allows for people to honor their own personal preferences.

In other words, if you are anything like me the last thing you want is a program that does not allow you to indulge in a burger or pizza on occasion.

Once I started to understand that people were their own worst enemies and were unknowingly blocking their own success, I knew I had to come up with something more simple and doable.

You can’t just tell people stop doing this, don’t eat that, avoid this thing and never ever do that thing. All this does is confuse and stress people out further.

It does not work and usually leads to the banana effect or worse.

At the same time, things do have to change. You do need to do things differently.

But that is the beauty of cycling the diet in this way. During this time I would eat the things I wanted to eat. I would just do it during the times I was training the hardest. Then I would give myself a break.

Ironically, this worked with the natural way I was doing things anyway. During the week I was busy and did not want to stress about food and workouts. On the weekend I wanted to eat and have a beer or two and I had time to spend in the gym. It was win-win.

The final approach was tweaking it so people could change the protocol to fit their particular needs. After solving this issue for myself and working with countless others both in person and online, I came up with a solution that was simple, understandable and doable.

The Male Metabolic Blueprint

This program teaches you how to time your training and cycle your diet in a way that makes sense and works with your average work week.

It clearly outlines the workouts you should be doing and when they are most beneficial. This allows your metabolism to focus on training and eating to build muscle or burn fat when it is most primed to do so.

The metabolism either likes to be building itself up (anabolism) or tearing itself down (catabolism). It functions better doing one and then the other in sequence. It does not do well trying to do both at the same time.

In addition, the male metabolism becomes more stress sensitive as it ages. Joints start to feel it. Libido starts to fall. Fatigue sets in. Mood issues crop up. Even health issues like prostate problems can start rearing their head.

I know how all this works, and have put a huge amount of extra education into the program. You will get issues related to attacking specific trouble areas like love handles or man boobs.

You will learn a lot about how estrogen levels can climb in men and how to deal with them.

Plus all men are different and have different goal sets. Some want to lift heavy weights and build big muscular arms.

Some want to get as lean as possible or get faster in endurance events. The education for both is included inside the program.

You will also learn about one of the most important aspects of a healthy lifestyle that almost all other health and weight loss programs ignore. That is how to eat the things you love and still get results.

There is an entire education on using common comfort foods like burgers, pizza, wings and other “non-diet” foods, not just for psychological relief, but also as a way to bolster metabolic function.

Finally, the program will address the individual man. Both young and more mature men will benefit from the education contained in the Male Metabolic Blueprint.

But that is the beauty of it, it is just a blueprint. You will quickly learn and see that we are each different metabolically, psychologically and in our personal preferences.

This must be honored.

Let me share with you some of the common mistakes most men make that the program addresses.