Post UD2 Diet - Sholar

[Fleax1973]

Hi.  just one question, did you actually gain muscle?? even a little bit, im about to start the diet.thanks a lot

[mpas0002]

@Fleax1973

I don't know for sure but I think I did. I certainly looked like I did.

[Fleax1973]

@mpas0002 thanks for the response, and sorry to bother you again, but i just finish my first week and everything was good till todays workout ( low reps, heavy weight), did you have this problem?

i felt soft and without much energy, maybe i have to shorten the carb load to 24 hours and then go straight back to low carbs. thanks again, have a nice day.

[aanderson66]

this diet and workout are great. I went from about 13 percent bmi to having a full blown six pack and veins popping out on my stomach in 4 weeks! I responded great to it. only supplements i took were fish oil and a multi vitimin. I only dropped 3 pounds but i went up in strength in all my big lifts. The strictness of this program is what kept my eating in line. No way was I going to ruin my carb load after i went through those depletion workouts.

[NRP128]

1200 calories a day! God you must have been starving.

[aanderson66]

nice work. how are the wheels? and what percentage did you start at? how much below maintenence did you eat on the 4 depletion days? I'm at about 13 or 14 and planning on starting this within the week. probably next Monday. I'm excited but I have to hold off and give my leg one more week to heal.

[Flexmeister]

great bod--what did you look like before the program?

[jonaswtf]

Sick, bro :) Maybe one of the most balanced natural physique I've seen.Do you have comparison pics? Like, before the diet? Just curious

[v1deom]

yo i would assume somebody eating 1200 calorie will slow down you metabolism especially with a maintanece at 2400 calorie. dont you think its better to decrease by 400 to 500 despite what the book says

[EricKomans]

@v1deom It wouldn't slow down your metabolism unless you sustained the deficit for a much longer period than that. If you're really scared about it, though, you COULD make the deficit on those four days only 500 calories. But then your total deficit from diet would only be 2000... before the carb load.

[aanderson66]

@v1deom Go by the book. Your metabolism will not slow down. The 3.5 days of very low calories are to mobilize fat stores. any longer than 3 or 4 days your body would most likily dip into muscle as energy. thats exactly when you switch yourself over to an anabolic state and reap the rewards of your body rebounding from a highly depleted state. if you read his book he goes more scientific into it. I definatley reccomment the full body workout version to gain more from the added lactic acid.

[mark0s3000]

Great first post. You look amazing

[v1deom]

how much carb did you eat the first 3 day of the diet. was it from strachy carbs

[mpas0001]

@v1deom

Virtually none. Nothing starchy. Some vegetables. 

[MuscMusM]

awesome body

[mixuletz]

just curious what did you eat on the maintenance break ?

[mpas0001]

@mixuletz

Whatever I wanted as long as my protein levels and calories were adequate.

[eVoluci0n]

do you have images/videos of what you looked like before you started UD2?

[manuelord]

Did you also follow the workout from the ultimate diet 2.0???

[mpas0001]

@manuelord

I tried to follow it pretty closely but I didn't obsess over the details.  I may have done less depletion work than he recommended.

[jbd28]

quick question...you say you averaged those calories over the week...did you follow Lyle's recommend of 50% maintenance early in the week? I only critique because your progress was phenomenal and any tweaks to his plan would be welcome to me! And I hope you post at his forums since you can prove you work the UD2 cycle pretty effectively.

[mpas0002]

I was eating 1200 cals/day early in the week and that was about 50% of my maintenance.

[angelpaw]

Dayum....The things I would do...

Sorry :) Anyways I'm on week 2 of ckd, hit a really bad patch of nausea today. Think I gotta get serious about taking some pwo dextrose. Anyways if it wasn't evident above, I'm totally impressed.

[Fleax1973]

i have a good amount of information about UD2,, i think ill give it a try ,, thanks for the video.

[gorehowl]

yo man thats awesome. what bf did u start at?

im starting this in 2 weeks and im 11% bf

[fatcatindacity]

So I'm looking into this diet...what do you think the advantage is to this over other diets that do work?..and I'm not talking about atikins, south beach...any of that. I leaned out significantly on no sugar, some clean carbs, and protein. I'm interested on your input as to why this diet is superior. Thanks!

[Jager1988]

If you are between 12-15% bodyfat, and generally know about training/nutrition, this diet WORKS. period. After a 8 week cycle of the diet my body fat was tested twice, by 2 different trainers, and both times it was measured at 6-7%

[GuitarDude1]

I've been stuck at 13% bf for the longest time. Although I started bulking and gained 10-30 lbs. in strength overall without gaining bf, I need to look into losing 4-5%. Will you lose strength and size when going on this UD2 diet?

[EricKomans]

Overall, no, but you will feel like shit the first half of the week during the depletion phase. After the refeed and going into the power workout, though, you'll feel godly.

[crz666]

awesome i just order the book today,right im on RFL diet its working VIDEO IS GREAT!!!!!!

[Grecc77]

UD2.0 is so annoying and tedious but it's always worth it in the end.

[EricKomans]

This was the only UD2 video I could find on here, and thank god it's a good one. I just started UD2 myself officially two days ago (er, I'm on day two right now.) I did a power workout before starting "officially" just because I'd been overeating so much I just pretended I'd been carb loading... Anyway, I'm logging my progress on my site, and I hope to achieve similiar results in a similar timeframe. I do have one question though: why 11 weeks? Didn't Lyle say something about a break after 8?

[sideshowlol]

Excellent! Thanks for your thoughts and all the detailed info. I'm going to stick with UD2 for about 8 weeks and then I'll be strength training again as I work towards new PRs in bench, squats and deads this winter. If I do a third as well as you have on UD2 I'll be pleased.

[sideshowlol]

Great results! I'm just starting a UD2 cycle after having bulked up to 224lb at 5'10" using HST workouts over the last few years. I've been cutting for a while and am now down to 200lb but I'm hoping I can take this a stage further with Lyle's help.

I am a fair bit older than you, with a middle age spread. Did UD2 help you to deal with any stubborn fat areas or were you pretty lean before you started? How long did you stick with the diet to get to the level of leanness you have in the vid?

[Onzs]

Congrats!

I've tried UD 2.0 before! Great Diet by Lyle!

BTW, how tall are you? weight before and after?

Sorry for my English!

Good Luck

[mpas0002]

6 feet

170 -175 Pounds

My weight pretty much stayed the same throughout the diet. I probably lost a couple pounds but there is always a swing in weight between the low carb days and the carb load.

[bridgerwild]

Hey, it worked gr8 4 u!

[mifster83]

whats your routine? split or full body?

[mpas0002]

For most of my life I did a split (entire body over 3 workouts, hitting each bodypart about once per week). However for this video and for the last few years I've prefered doing a full body workouts 3 times per week. Monday - light weight high rep. Thursday - moderate weight 8 reps. Saturday - heavy 5 reps. during a diet

and I alternate between heavy and moderate, still 3 days / week, when I'm eating normally.

[GbeTech]

Have you read somewhere that in FBW, doing firts day high rep, second moderate and third low is better than just doing low rep all week long?

Or I guess you just tried to see what best suits you and this proved to be good enough

[mpas0002]

Got the idea from UD2 diet (Lyle Mcdonald). high rep for glycogen depletion (low carb days) Other 2 workouts for growth. In my experience it works well.

[Jeff160x]

Outstanding! Great guns..I hope we get to see more--like a segment focused on those fantastic biceps.

[GbeTech]

Really nice man, your progress in proportion to the time you've been training isn't shocking but they way your muscles look is amazing! I just with to have a similar chest and back in 1 or 2 years.

And pretty ripped too, gj

What's your bf% btw? (or was when this was taken)

[mpas0002]

I actually never got my bf measured. I use skin fold calipers on my abdomen at belly button level to track progress. My skin fold at it's lowest was about 2mm. I can easily maintain at 6mm. and I've been up to about 10. For this video I was about 2.5mm. It takes me about 3 weeks to drop from 6 to 4 eating about 2300 cals/day average.

[NYCMscl4Mscl]

wow!!!!

[fightingfoo2]

lol "fairly satisfied"? god, your hard to please

[fightingfoo2]

absolutely incredible. thats what a bodybuilder should look like. are you still getting bigger or just maintaining now?

[pad021]

You look great. Keep on posting.

[ravtan123]

okay this is good bruv tell me ..? how long did you train in oreder to get this --years?

[mpas0002]

14 years. I started lifting in my early teens.

[bkny11215]

I'll have what he's having.

[depeche878]

I approve :)

[ironlifter21]

that diet seems to be working were is it? nvm its in your descrip. Good progress!