Re: Re: More Hofmekler nonsense

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> > FWIW none of the senior KB instructors/strength coaches I know use the

> > WD themselves nor recommend it to clients except maybe for weight loss.

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> They do, however--to a one--take creatine. Will you opine?

> Teesa B.

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What special insight into nutrition would you expect a kb instructor to have?

Mike Mahler is a vegetarian and relies on soy for most of his protein, doesn't

he?

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>FWIW none of the senior KB instructors/strength coaches I know use the

>WD themselves nor recommend it to clients except maybe for weight loss.

What diet do they follow, though?

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>I would like to see a tribe who lived off of only grains and fruits.

>Unless they were eating a lot of coconut and/or insects, I would

>expect them to be quite pathetic compared to the Masai.

Regardless of how pleasant such a tribe's environment might be, nobody's

going to do as well without animal foods as with them.

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>They do, however--to a one--take creatine. Will you opine?

I don't have a really solid opinion on creatine, but since it's a natural

substance used by the body, and since cooking meat destroys at least some

of its creatine, creatine supplementation (at least within reason) probably

isn't a bad thing. Creatine monohydrate, however, is a piss-poor

form. It's not absorbed well at all (also meaning that it can cause

digestive disturbances, which are quite widely reported in the bodybuilding

community) and it may lead to heightened creatinine levels in the body,

though the main advocates of that theory seem to be companies selling

alternate forms of creatine.

If you're going to use creatine, creatine ethyl ester is probably the way

to go. It's esterified and therefore readily absorbable without causing

gastric distress, and you need to take much less of it than the monohydrate

form for the same reason.

reported gaining some muscle mass with CEE that dropped off as soon

as he stopped taking it, so I don't know how durable the gains realized by

creatine supplementation are, though some people argue that CEE builds

muscle that lasts while creatine monohydrate builds muscle which sticks

around only during creatine monohydrate supplementation.

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> FWIW none of the senior KB instructors/strength coaches I know use the

> WD themselves nor recommend it to clients except maybe for

> weight loss.

Hmmm. Does that include Pavel? Thought he was a Warrior Diet guy.

Ron