The Anabolic Diet Blog

As with any bodybuilding method, you want to fit in as many vegetables a day as possible while on the Anabolic Diet.
I struggle to get my veggies down.  I used to be far worse, never eating a single green, leafy bite, but now I’ve conditioned myself to sometimes even crave a small salad.  I never [...]

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I am a regular consumer of raw eggs. I love them. I don’t eat them plain straight out of the shell, but I absolutely love mixing them into shakes, pudding recipes, and anything else they’ll fit into. Eggs are the most anabolic food available, and eating raw eggs not only helps me [...]

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The best results I’ve received on the Anabolic Diet are when I’ve used whole food sources and very few supplements. I highly recommend that if you want the best results, you follow the same plan.
With that said, there are still some supplements that help. The following are the supplements I feel will benefit [...]

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The Anabolic Diet, despite being hailed as an amazing muscle-gaining diet, is also the best weight loss diet I’ve used. Specifically, the Anabolic Diet is the best diet I’ve used, bar none, to lose fat and retain as much muscle as possible.
I’ve been asked frequently how to lose weight using the Anabolic Diet. [...]

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The Anabolic Diet is great for building muscle with minimal fat gain, but if you’re like me, it takes a lot of work to avoid fat gain altogether. Whenever I build muscle, I expect to either stay around the same bodyfat levels or allow them to slightly elevate. I generally aim to stay [...]

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This is a basic overview of my first week experience on the Anabolic Diet, and how it felt. For even more information on the first week, check out StrongLift.com’s write-up.
I first started on the Anabolic Diet in April of 2007. I read up on it for about two weeks before beginning, and then [...]

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Everyone seems to hold them up to a pedestal — and with good reason — but I need to come out and say it:
I absolutely hate eating vegetables.
I’ve gotten better in the past couple years. These days I don’t mind forcing them down, gagging the whole way. I used to avoid it altogether, [...]

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Vince Gironda, one of my biggest influences in the bodybuilding game, swore by guidelines similar to those laid out by the Anabolic Diet.  In his book, Unleashing the Wild Physique, Vince stated that he believes great results in bodybuilding are 85% from nutrition and diet.
Vince, in describing a “muscle building” diet he called the “Hormone [...]

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