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Lyle McDonald+ is the author of the Ketogenic Diet as well as the Rapid Fat Loss Handbook and the Guide to Flexible Dieting. He has been interested in all aspects of human performance physiology since becoming involved in competitive sports as a teenager. Pursuing a degree in Physiological Sciences from UCLA, he has devoted nearly 20 years of his life to studying human physiology and the science, art and practice of human performance, muscle gain, fat loss and body recomposition.

Athlete

Lyle has been involved, at various levels of success in competitive sports since his teens. Starting with triathlon, he spent altogether too many hours on his bike during college. Becoming involved with inline skating at the same time led him to compete for several years until he burned himself out with chronic overtraining. Many years passed until he decided to return to speed skating and move to the ice. He moved to Salt Lake City Utah to train full time at the Olympic oval, he is currently still there training with his coach Rex Albertson attempting to make the US National team or beyond.

Writer

Lyle has written for the print magazines (Flex and the now defunct Peak Training Journal), too many online sites to mention and has published 5 books on various aspects of exercise and diet.

Trainer

Over the years, in addition to working with the general public, Lyle has worked primarily with endurance athletes, a few powerlifters, and some bodybuilders. Through his books, articles and his forum, he has helped thousands lose fat, gain muscle and get stronger or perform better.

Ask Lyle McDonald #5

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Dear Lyle, I just read an article about protein cycling at http://www.testosterone.net. In it, the author (who’s an MD AND a bodybuilder, so he must know his stuff) recommends reducing protein intake to 20-40 grams per day for up to a month, saying that it’ll help me get bigger. He also said that it’s possible to […]

Weight Training and Fat Loss on a Cyclical Ketogenic Diet

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Lyle, I’m wanting to maximize my results on a CKD (BodyOpus) diet. I have the diet down to a science where I can start first thing Monday AM & enter ketosis by Tuesday afternoon. In addition to doing cardio work, I also try and throw in a couple of extra circuit weight training days. I […]

Best Diet to Gain Muscle

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Dear Lyle, I have now been training for almost two years but unfortunately I have reached a plateau. I have become desperate to put on some mass but nothing really seems to work. As a result I tried to read everything I can about various mass boosting diets and the Anabolic Diet seems to be […]

Gaining Muscle on Cyclical Ketogenic Diet

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Lyle, I want to gain LBM with a BodyOpus type diet. Can you give me your best diet/workout schedule to do this? I need to stay lean while increasing LBM. I used insulin twice with BodyOpus with good results – if you think it will help please advise. Thanks! First let me say that I […]

How Does Iso-Caloric Diet Compare to the Bodyopus Diet?

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Would like to ask a few questions about the Iso-Caloric Diet. How does it compare to BodyOpus? At preserving LBM? Is it better than the High-carb Diet? A: It seems like most naturals definitely tend to do better in terms of sparing LBM with a more isocaloric diet compared to a high carb diet (though […]

Does Flax Oil Help Fat Loss?

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Hi Lyle, Thank you for your June article on flax oil. I was hoping you could answer some further questions on the topic. I’ve read several purported benefits of flax oil supplementation – Dan Duchaine has stated that the EFA’s in flax oil may have protein uncoupling properties (I know you have experience with that […]

Is Protein Cycling Effective for Bodybuilding?

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Dear Lyle, I just read an article about protein cycling at Testosterone.net. In it, the author (who’s an MD AND a bodybuilder, so he must know his stuff) recommends reducing protein intake to 20-40 grams per day for up to a month, saying that it’ll help me get bigger. He also said that it’s possible […]

How Often Should Exercise Routines Be Changed?

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How often should I change exercise routines? A: The short answer: whenever you get stale with your current routine. Muscle Media writer Charles Poliquin suggests changing routines every 3 weeks or 6 workouts (he has his athletes train each bodypart twice a week apparently). Since I can’t stand this much volume, I only work each […]

Does Creatine Add Muscle?

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I am fairly new to using supplements. Everybody seems to be using creatine. In one of you responses you mention that it adds strength and water. It doesn’t add muscle mass?How quickly are strength gains seen from creatine? One week? Two? A: No, not in terms of actual contractile tissue, at least not in the […]