Ori Hofmekler

[hammer_2020]

Has anyone tried his Warrior Diet, or his latest system, Maximal Muscle, Minimal Fat? A friend of mine has been following the guidelines in the latter to plan his diet and been getting good results so far - as good as his carbohydrate-reduced diet and without cravings, mood swings or other withdrawal symptoms. I'm planning on watching his progress for a month and then, if it works out, switching from my current diet to one planned along those guidelines.

[hermanchauw]

I did the Warrior Diet a couple of years back. That was when i was doing low reps. Feels great when your stomach is light throughout the day. I have stopped as my sets are getting longer and doing more reps.

Now what i am doing is similar to the Warrior Diet:
-Fat and protein throughout the day, no carbo, however amount is full meals, except after training when i take carbo.
-Carbo in the night but not bingeing.

After doing 4x7 i can't binge anymore. I am just not that hungry, especially on the No and Low Days.

[kcsportsdoc]

I tried it. I found that I was getting rather cranky during the day (not the most endearing trait in a chiropractor!). And at night, I'd be so hungry that I'd rip the hinges off the fridge and cupboards. Currently, my program is more similar to what Herman is doing. Protein, fat and some complex carbs during the day, broken up into 2 meals and 2 snacks, and a nice dinner w/more emphasis on complex carbs. This program keeps me nicely balanced from a blood sugar perspective, because when I don't get enough calories during the day, I tend to be ridiculously hungry at night. I never feel stuffed and I never feel famished. That really works for me AND I'm down 19 lbs and counting.

[Glenn Sunshine]

I tried it for a while, and while it didn't bother me I didn't find myself losing weight or fat on it--evidently, I made up the gap at night. Eat-Stop-Eat may work better for you. It's the warrior diet-lite--you essentially follow a warrior diet style of eating (24 hour fasts) once or twice per week.

[Wil Boyce, CSCS]

You might also find the writings of Martin Berkhan of Leangains.com worthwhile. I do a combination of Eat Stop Eat and Martin's style of intermittent fasting, and I've seen some good results as far as leaning out.

[MattKuhlmann]

Hi, I got the Warror Diet book at christmas, played the game full on and had excellent results with energy levels and fat loss.

Combined with training I lost 28lbs of fat in 6 weeks.

Yes in the begining I got cranky, there are days where I get hungry in the day, but that used to happen anyway!

One very importand thing that people miss about it is that it isnt starvaton during the day, it is controled fasting and when you read it you will see that Ori infact eats quite a lot and quite frequently during the day, just not typical full on meals.

With regards to its effect on my training the first week I did feel a little weaker, then after that continued to see good gains. I was doing 120 snatches with a 24kg kettlebell in 5 mins with no rest, 8 snatches each side with a 40kg bell and 12 jetks each side with a 40.

For me it works, and everyone is different. For $20 give it a go.

Hope this helps,

Matt.