Lyle McDonald

Welcome back to the Optimal Protein Podcast.

I'm your host, Vanessa, and I am so excited for today's episode because we are breaking down the biggest takeaways and most actionable gems from Monday's interview with Lyle McDonald.

I have wanted to interview Lyle for years.

Many years ago, I purchased his book, The Stubborn Fat Solution, and I was fascinated by the mechanisms that seem to control whether fat is released from certain cells or isn't, and I loved learning about his various protocols as well as just the science behind body fat that seems to be harder to get rid of than other areas.

And, you know, our moms were all eating cottage cheese and lettuce cups and stuff like that.

But Aoife, you shared a podcast with me featuring a gentleman named Lyle McDonald, who is a very well-known researcher and coach who has worked with bodybuilders and athletes.

He's also the author of The Woman's Book, where he did this deep dive on women's unique physio- physiology as it relates to weight gain, um, sorry, muscle gain, diet, and fat loss.

And it w- all aimed at how women can optimize and, and live longer.

I'm your host, Vanessa, and I am so incredibly excited to bring you today's episode.

I finally got to interview Lyle McDonald.

He is a researcher that I have wanted to have on the podcast for many, many years, and he did not disappoint.

We really got to delve deeply into so many topics that I am obsessed with, especially stubborn body fat and what we can do about it.

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Well, welcome to the Optimal Protein Podcast, Lyle McDonald.

It's wonderful to have you here with us.

And here's the other thing.

Lyle McDonald has, has asked this a lot, and I think it's a good question, which is, 'cause he recognizes that it has some validity, as do I, and I think this is a good question as like a, as a broader community, is i- everybody tends to think of how much volume do we need? How many sets and reps do we need for, you know, to stimulate progress? And the better question is, how many effective reps do we need over the course of a workout or the course of a week? And I don't think there's a lot of agreement on that.

And I think beginners, intermediates, and advanced people probably wind up getting about the same amount, but they get there differently.

So that's part of the reason, you know, if it's a, if it's a five, a, a true five from a more intermediate to advanced trainee, if a true five rep max, by definition, you can't repeat that for another two sets.

Yeah, I think it's very interesting when someone I think there's almost the assumption that most people, even if they put a citation, most people reading the article are not going to click on it.

People like you and I, a good friend of mine, Lyle McDonald, goes through every single citation that anyone claims.

And he calls these things out all the time.

And they're often in my inbox.

No, it's super fascinating, especially when you disentangle these things and you present the evidence.

And here would be the thing, if you have physiological rationale, where you have hypotheses, there's many people, I'll give you a great example.

Lyle McDonald is a good friend of mine.

And there was many things that before the data broke out on it, I'll give you a great example.

So again, this would be a calorie cycling approach, intermittent modified fasting diets.

Lyle McDonald talks about this.

Again, you're going to have some higher output days, higher calorie days.

with some days that your calories are a bit lower.

And of course, some really good books.

I almost forgot, Lyle McDonald.

I mean, I can pick up the phone and call Lyle if I misunderstand something, and he'll give me a dissertation of explanation.

I really appreciate that.