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Ruma · 09-02-2004, 11:26 PM

Links:

http://www.ironmagazine.com/article78.html

http://www.ironmagazine.com/article88.html

I recieved these 2 articles as a part of my weekly Alwyn Cosgrove newsletter. The second article talks about nutritional periodization. I did not quite get the concept. Some of the questions that come to my mind upon reading the article are :

1. What is the time interval you maintain to get "Periodic". Is it weeks or months? So you up your calorie intake once a month or once a week? How exactly you do that?

2. Once you have upped your calorie intake how long do you stay on that for before returning to lower calories.

3. When you up your calorie intake, do you do that by eating more of what has been prescribed in Adam's diet per meal? Or you do that by increasing the frequency of your meals?

4. When you have increased your calorie intake do you also increase the intensity and volume of your exercise to compensate for the extra calories?

5. How much do you increase your calorie intake in this "UP" cycle: 200/500/700/...?

6. How will you make a combination of Adam's diet and nutritional periodization work? Or are these 2 kind of diet totally perpendicular to each other or am I just DUMB?

Hope this was not too long.. Please help me figure this out.

Thanks.

09-02-2004, 11:26 PM	#1 (permalink)
Ruma HOT MAMA! Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: India Posts: 1,147 My Profile	Links: http://www.ironmagazine.com/article78.html http://www.ironmagazine.com/article88.html I recieved these 2 articles as a part of my weekly Alwyn Cosgrove newsletter. The second article talks about nutritional periodization. I did not quite get the concept. Some of the questions that come to my mind upon reading the article are : 1. What is the time interval you maintain to get "Periodic". Is it weeks or months? So you up your calorie intake once a month or once a week? How exactly you do that? 2. Once you have upped your calorie intake how long do you stay on that for before returning to lower calories. 3. When you up your calorie intake, do you do that by eating more of what has been prescribed in Adam's diet per meal? Or you do that by increasing the frequency of your meals? 4. When you have increased your calorie intake do you also increase the intensity and volume of your exercise to compensate for the extra calories? 5. How much do you increase your calorie intake in this "UP" cycle: 200/500/700/...? 6. How will you make a combination of Adam's diet and nutritional periodization work? Or are these 2 kind of diet totally perpendicular to each other or am I just DUMB? Hope this was not too long.. Please help me figure this out. Thanks.