g-flux prior to dieting?

[kope19]

I'm sure many of you are familiar with the whole g-flux concept that berardi writes about. Questions: Is this theory valid? Would there be any value what so ever in raising calorie intake and overall exercise volume for a period of time prior to actually cutting calories? Basically get your metabolism screaming then diet down to your original maintenance? Thanks

[Weib]

End of the day its still a caloric deficit, nothing revolutionary.

[lylemcd]

Originally Posted by kope19

I'm sure many of you are familiar with the whole g-flux concept that berardi writes about. Questions: Is this theory valid? Would there be any value what so ever in raising calorie intake and overall exercise volume for a period of time prior to actually cutting calories? Basically get your metabolism screaming then diet down to your original maintenance? Thanks

No.

[BWTrainer]

From a physiological standpoint, see Lyle's answer.

Psychologically, if I could subtract a few hundred calories, or if I could ride my bike for an hour and keep eating the same, I'd rather do the latter.

People make the whole concept a lot more complicated than it needs to be trying to schedule a ridiculous workload and time the intake of every calorie to match it. Look at it as raising your maintenance through activity. That's what I do by riding my bike 60 mins 3-4x/wk (on top of my weight training), I just wouldn't eat to offset those extra calories. Bam! I'm dieting. It's just that it's so simple, no one would look at that and call it g-flux.

[Fried Bacon]

the good thing about higher energy intake and expenditure is that you can worry less about the little details of the things you eat. A man eating and burning 3700 calories a day probably wont have to count veggies, seasoning, etc and wont have to worry as much about misweighing anything, compared to a small sedentary woman eating 1300 calories a day where almost every gram counts.

I also think keepiing your fitness level that high would lead to easier weight loss, if you can maintain that ability of energy expenditure

[godzillaballs]

I g-fluxed Berardi's mom.

[lylemcd]

Originally Posted by Fried Bacon

I also think keepiing your fitness level that high would lead to easier weight loss, if you can maintain that ability of energy expenditure

Why?

[Fried Bacon]

Originally Posted by lylemcd

Why?

My reasoning is that if you have a fitness level high enough to burn a considerable amount of caloiries at a given time, say 800 calories an hour as opposed to someone not as fit burning 300 an hour, you'd have an easier time with creating a caloric deficit.

[Radaar]

Originally Posted by godzillaballs

I g-fluxed Berardi's mom.

Was it spicy?

[Weib]

realistically speaking, people who need/wants it usually don't have the luxury to move about that much.
Its easier and more feasible to reduce their intake.