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HIGH CALORIE CONFUSION PROGRAM EXPLAINED
How This Program Works
The workings of our body are complex, so complex in fact that no one knows for
certain how to change something to get a benefit without your body taking counter
measures to prevent the change occurring. Your body likes equilibrium. It likes
to stay the same. This is the body's own natural homeostasis. When you try to
tamper or force your body to change, there is always some form of resistance.
This is the problem faced by every weight gain program, you follow a plan, you
gain good quality weight, your progress slows, finally it stops and you may
even start getting fat. But you carried on doing the same thing, so why did
it stop working? It stops because your body becomes efficient at doing other
things with the excess calories you are feeding it. It is an excellent adaptagenic
organsim. What has really happened?
Obviously, the answer is that your body has adapted to the changes you made.
Every single operation carried out by the body is changed by what you feed
your system. If your body has plenty of carbohydrates, that will be its primary
fuel source. If your body has plenty of fat and no carbohydrate, this will become
its primary fuel source. Your body will begin to oxidise faster (age quicker
and kill off more cells), and raise its basal temperature. There are many, many
ways in which your body can adapt to the scenario you place it in. Whenever
you follow a weight gain program, your body will, inevitably, cotton on to what
and how you are doing it and counteract your dietary manipulations. What can
you do about this, so that you gain good quality weight and minimise fat storage?
Well, one of the things that you can do, that works very effectively, is quite
simply - confuse your body.
The Basics
This program is based on changing the stimulus constantly, that way your body
takes longer to adapt and you can make progress for longer, if not indefinitely.
Your body can only adapt to excessive over feeding periods and get fat, only
if you follow an over feeding program on a consistent basis. Long enough to
trigger an adaptive response. That is why this diet is so clever. Your body
cannot ever adapt to the caloric confusion. In other words, for your body to
truly adapt and change its metabolism in response to a stimulus (your diet)
then it must be exposed to this stimulus repeatedly and for prolonged periods
of time without change. Change the stimulus regularly enough and your body will
not and cannot adapt.
Putting it Together
Specifically, this program takes three different calorie levels that average
out a little above maintenance level (the level of nutrients your body requires
to consume to stay the same as it is). By using a different calorie level each
day your body never gets into a position where it adapts to being over fed,
consequently you can make good quality gains for longer.
What Can I Expect To See?
The average weight training athlete can expect to gain moderate and stable amounts
of weight on this diet, despite the up and down confusion of calories. One will
find that, yes, daily, there may be weight fluctuations, caused by stomach fullness
and the physical weight of food in the system varying from day to day, also
affecting water quantity held within the body. However on a global, say weekly
or monthly basis, the trainer should expect to see steady weight gain of around
1 - 2lbs per week, 4 -8 lbs per month of mostly muscular mass, combined with
the correct training stimulus. Remember, without any form of resistance training,
and specifically, an effective training program individualised for you, no amount
of muscle will even be triggered for new growth.
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