As a Board Certified Physician who works w/ MANY current World Champion athletes to improve performance, I couldn't imagine even thinking about "A calorie is a calorie" cr*p that TA pushes. To improve performance, I concentrate on increasing an athletes anaerobic/lactate threshold, as well as improving their Phosphate and O2 energy systems.
In conjunction w/ the above stated, I implement a strict eating program to insure the calories consumed are NOT EMPTY calories. Additionally, a supplement program is designed to help the athlete deal w/ the day to day recovery, energy levels, electrolyte replacement etc.
My program EXCLUDES all of the "Adonis Principles" (A total joke)
I suggest you ignore TA.......the boy is totally clueless, and is just looking to get "a rise" out of the G.B. members. He's nothing but a non-degreed wannabe.
Hope this helps.
You are quite correct. But The True Adonis has purposely mislead everyone in his wording.
From a pure energy/thermogenic standpoint, a calorie is indeed a calorie. It is just a unit of energy.
However, he has changed his tune. He used to believe this from a nutritional standpoint, as Saxon's post shows he thought a 100% diet was sufficient. He used believe macronutrient ratios were irrelevant (If you read his earlier threads)
He has now added that a minimum level of "RDA" approved nutrition is required, and "macronutrient is not a macronutrient," suggesting that he understands how the body processes different macronutrients with respect to absorbtion, bioavailability, and which how the macro is processed once across enterocytes is much more complex.
Macronutrients are usually in a homeostatic equilibrium, but this equilibrium can coaxed to favor a different biochemical pathway, and ultimately a different fate, by a different hormonal environments. Timing of food, the amount of food per serving, different macro ratios all have an effect on endogenous hormonal release (the most important in this discussion being insulin).
