Just a quick post to let you know that I now have a game plan for explaining disinhibition theory.

Disinhibition theory will be one of the central topics for this year’s Uncensored Podcasts.

The podcasts are part of the Adonis / Venus Immersion package.

WARNING: This package is expensive. But also very worth it.

Now, you are not obliged or obligated to get immersion if you want to learn about disinhibition theory. I’m pretty sure that we will eventually publish a book on it sometime in the next year or two…so it’s not as if you’ll NEVER get the info.

But, if you want to follow along the podcasts as we sort out Disinhbition theory in real time and apply it not only to muscle building and fat loss but also to aging, supplements, the controversies in health and fitness research and to the entire Adonis Venus Philosophy then this is a great choice for you.

Here’s quick rundown of the theory:

The premise of our theory is incredibly simple – The ‘natural’ state for your body is growth, with checks and balances acting as breaks to prevent this growth.

As an analogy, it’s like having a car with the accelerator permanently stuck to the floor, and you regulate the speed of the car with by pushing down or letting up on the brake. Only in your body’s case there are dozens if not hundreds of brakes.

This is very different form the current accepted theory that the body simply stops growing and needs to be prodded or stimulated to grow further.

With our disinhibition theory you don’t need to ‘force’ growth, growth is the default setting.

What you need to do is examine the ‘brakes’ that are in place preventing growth if growth is what you desire*.

(*remember, these ‘brakes’ are EXTREMELY important – uncontrolled growth is not something we would ever, ever want.)

The brakes are both intrinsic and extrinsic – Meaning they can be from your own body (like the myostatin gene preventing muscle growth) or external (not working out would be a muscle growth brake so would various nutrient deficiencies).

The great thing about this theory is that it explains the lack of consistent results or guidelines we see with things like how much protein or calories we need to build muscle.

Under the diinhibition theory – a deficiency (too little) can be a break, but once that break is removed and you get enough/adequate amounts of protein or calories then adding more (a surplus) would do nothing to spur more muscle growth.

Once the brake is off it’s off…it can’t be ‘more off’

Another major aspect of this whole theory is denouncing the
idea of a genetic limit.

Limit… such a horrible word.

With disinihibition theory we like to think that the goal is a genetic Ideal. (much better word)

And just as Adonis and Venus are based around hitting an ideal, disinibition theory is exactly HOW we do this…my removing inhibitors…not by trying to ‘Stimulate’ our way to more muscle and less fat.

I really think this approach is going to make getting your ideal body a whole lot easier…

It’s all in immersion. Plus you get Lifetime Access to all Adonis Venus branded books and workouts…meaning everything new we come up with…you get it.

So do me a favor – if you’re interested take a couple minutes click the link below and let Brad Howard explain how the whole thing works.

The program’s are different for men and women, so…

Men click here → Men’s Immersion

Women click here →  Women’s Immersion

PS- If you’ve already purchased any Adonis or Venus products make sure you let the people over at Adonis Venus know and they’ll credit that amount against your purchase of Immersion (they’re good like that).

This was the email I received yesterday about the Reverse Taper diet:

The Reverse Taper Diet seems to complicate things and go against what I assumed you meant with Eat Stop Eat.  (eg eat what you want, work out, stop eating for 24hr, lose weight, repeat cycle) Why the added complication? Just curious.

A fair question for sure. This was my Answer:

Some people really want to know roughly how many calories to eat, and get confused when I answer ‘it depends on how much fat you have’

For some reason ‘eat as you normally would’ is a difficult concept to some people – they are in a perpetual cycle of over or under eating. For those people I wanted to give them an answer and a
solution.

The answer is easy, but the solution has to change as their bodies change.

That’s the reverse taper diet. It’s based on the theory of fat availability. So it adjusts based on your level of leanness and muscularity. It’s a compliment to Eat Stop Eat, not a replacement
for it.

If Eat Stop Eat is “When to eat”, the Reverse Taper Diet is “How much to eat” given your current fat and muscle mass<– that’s the part that makes it unique.

If you haven’t had a chance to check out the Reverse Taper Diet yet, I suggest you go here:  http://reversetaperdiet.net/

It’s that time of year where people start to realize they only have about 3 months before they’re hanging out by pools and wearing bathing suits.

So naturally it’s also the time of year when people get super tempted to do some hard-core crash dieting.

Here’s my advice – DON’T BE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE.

Crash Dieting can be a terrible mistake for some people. You may start off great, but when your body fat levels get really low things can change.

Bottom line – You CAN lose muscle and you CAN make yourself tired, lethargic and miserable when you are dieting if your body fat levels are REALLY low.

Luckily this is a problem I have avoided.

For me, Eat Stop Eat is how I lose weight, and the eating in between the fasts is how I keep from being tired, lethargic and well…Cranky.

However it’s taken 6 years of trial and error for me to figure how much to eat in between my fasts. I’m really happy with where I am. But I want to help you get there just a little bit faster 😉

John and I have put together a guide on how exactly we want people to go about managing the calories based on their own individual body shape and size.

We’ve called it the Reverse Taper Diet, and it’s based on the the Theory of Fat Availability.

A diet program that teaches you how much to eat on a week-to-week basis in order to maximize your fat loss while eliminating any chance of losing lean muscle mass, even when your body fat levels are really low.

And most importantly, this program is designed to teach you how to MAINTAIN your weight loss so you never rebound!

Here’s what you get…

– You get a very concise manual about how everything works and how to use the software

You get the software, which tells you exactly:

*Your Ideal Waist Measurement
*Your Ideal Shoulder Measurement
*Your most Likely ‘Target’ Weight
*How many calories you should roughly eat per day,

and even

*What your estimated weight change will be

All in all, this is a very COOL product.

I like it a lot.

 For me, anything that removes some of the guess work from getting lean is a step in the right direction.

Now, if you’re they type of person who just likes to wing it when it comes to counting calories then this is probably NOT for 
you.

No biggie, just the truth.

Check it out here ==> The Reverse Taper Diet

I’ve done my best to give you a “done for you” approach to body transformations.

In my opinion the the goal of weight loss isn’t 0% body fat, the goal is to like the way you look.

Now, I know 0% is ludicrous, and would have to involve the removal of your brain… but the point is body fat percentages are arbitrary.

3.8% vs 4.3% vs 8%

Really, what is in a number?

The goal of any weight loss program should be to be happy with, and proud of, your body- Not to hit some predetermined arbitrary number.

Yes, I agree that knowing these numbers helps for tracking and measuring progress etc, but they are not something to obsess over.

When I get 220 pounds guys with 6% body fat emailing me asking questions on how to lose fat with fasting I know something is up.

Like I said, the goal isn’t 0, the goal is happy…not just with the look, but with the amount of work it takes to get and maintain that look.

Not to sound to ‘life coachy’, but balance is important.

Take a breath, relax. Your weight is going to go up and it’s going to go down.

Some days you are going to look awesome in the mirror, other days it wont be as great as you would like (but it will be good).

As long as the general trend always moves you towards something you are proud of and happy with, you are doing great.

I don’t see a reason to obsess over arbitrary numbers

Please don’t let diet and nutrition become an obsession or make you neurotic.

You’ll get where you are trying to go. Give it time and enjoy the process.

After a year of writing, reviewing and editing, the 5th edition of Eat Stop Eat is finally ready, and it’s a BIG ONE!

I’ve included all the recent research on intermittent fasting, as well as new information on hunger, muscle growth, endurance training, testosterone, and cellular cleansing.

You’ll be really happy with how this one turned out, especially with the new chapter on cellular cleansing AND the information on why intermittent fasting may actually be BETTER than traditional dieting if your goal is to build muscle while losing fat.

Finally, if you pick up a copy by Friday April 6th, you can take part in a teleseminar with me where I will personally walk you through all the new information in the newest version of Eat Stop Eat.

I’m really excited about this one!

OK, first I want to tell you one last thing about the Reverse Taper Diet- Simply that it was designed with the goal of preventing post-weight loss weight-rebound. You know, how people diet like crazy, hit their ideal weight, then 3 days later they are back up 15 pounds?

I want that to stop.

My goal with Reverse Taper is to literally have you ‘plateau’ at your ideal weight and leanness.

That’s the idea behind RTD – eating well and staying lean.

OK, now enough about that, I have something else I want to discuss with you.

If my future telling software is accurate then the on-line community is going to be BUZZING about one particular new study coming out.

After all, the subjects in the study are practically celebrities.

This particular study is on a group of people in “a nationally televised weight loss reality TV show where participants are voted off weekly”

Gee – I have no idea what show that could be 😉

Anyways, here is what I want you to look for – really distorted scaremongering –

Here’s why:

I took the numbers of all the participants, particularly their BMR’s and then used the predictive equations to figure what we think their metabolic rates SHOULD be.

Here’s what I found –

In the beginning of the study, when the average weight was 328 pounds (162 pound of body fat!), the average BMR was almost 2,700 a full 700 calories ABOVE what even the most generous equations suggested.

At the end of the study when the average body weight was 200 pounds, (they lost more than 120 pounds) the average BMR was 1,900 –  Still a full  100 calories ABOVE what even the most generous equation predicted it should be given their lean body mass.

Heck, it was still higher than my BMR!

So here’s my confusion, and my guess:

My bet is that everyone focuses on the almost 700 calorie ‘drop’, and not the fact that in the end their metabolic rates were right where they should be. And I doubt ANYONE will be concerned with how HIGH their metabolic rate was in the beginning.

This is the part I find confusing – their metabolic rates are MASSIVELY elevated when they are overweight – like with sepsis! Is this evidence of a metabolic ‘slow down’ with dieting or a ‘hyper metabolism’ from a body that is in really, really rough shape??

To me, the ultra high metabolic rate just shows the damage of being more than 100 pounds over-fat, how much work the body has to do at this level of fatness, and it adds strength to argument that obesity of that degree truly is a disease state.

And at the end of the study, to have lost over 100 pound of body fat, and have a metabolic rate that is precisely where it should be seems to be an amazing accomplishment, but will somehow it will be turned into more metabolism scaremongering.

To bad, because the study itself is full of things to be positive about, yet the negative sells better.

Keep on keeping on, and remember, the story is usually much more complex than the headlines suggest.