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April 6, 2008 Other Sites, Weight Lifting No CommentsDave Tate is a fucking strong guy, he will eat you for his weekly cheat meal then he will squat almost 5x what you weighed. Possibly more.
Which means he’s fat right? Like all those guys that lift the really heavy weights, the strong men, not body builders. Not at 125kg and 11% bodyfat, I don’t think that counts as being fat. Nope, it doesn’t mean that at all and he’s putting up his full training and eating regime as well as a bunch of Q&A about how he diets down each year. It’s a really interesting read. This guy is dropping fat and gaining muscle throughout most of the diet while eating a stack of food.
His cheat meal is a pizza, 2 bags of Oreos, a box of pop tarts, some Pepsi and Tootsie Rolls! That’s one meal. The rest of his meals are extremely healthy but they are about 2-3x what I normally eat.
Now you and I can’t eat like this guy and lose weight, he does after all have a lean body mass that is about 20kg more than I weigh in total and while exercise is essentially his job he doesn’t train a hell of a lot more than I do. That still doesn’t mean I can eat like him but it does give you an idea of how these guys eat and you could definitely steal some ideas and apply them. Rather than eat 3500 calories a day like him, why not start at 2500 but follow a similar plan.
There’s a saying about getting rid of the stuff that doesn’t work and stealing the stuff that does. The V-Diet was basically formulated on the basis of doing the exact opposite of what normal people do, no matter how crazy it seems. Normal people eat whatever they want, they don’t lift weights with any purpose and I’m not sure many people count weight lifting as exercise that is as good as cardio. The V-Diet gets rid of normal food, puts weight lifting as your primary exercise and tells you to do a minimal amount of low intensity cardio. It works.
Dave Tate’s diet is pretty full on but there are some great tips on why a cheat meal is good and why you shouldn’t over complicate things when you’re dieting. I’d recommend taking a look and considering some of the material for application to your diet.