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Nutrition Best diet coupled with Kettlebells?

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Many of us are followers of some form of intermittent fasting. On the recent Joe Rogan podcast, Pavel T. talks about Ori Hoffmekler, the author of The Warrior Diet, and how he eats just once a day. I follow Ori's undereating/overeating model, just coffee and a protein bar or two during the day, then dinner.

Results? Over the years, I've gotten leaner and stronger. I was skinny/fat, as they say, to start, but have never really had a problem with being grossly overweight. The most I've ever weighed, wearing work boots and a winter coat, was 80 kg, and I'm usually just under 70 most of the time now.

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Best for what exactly?
The general scientific concesus is that calorie control is the most important factor independently of how you distribute them over the day.
Macro nutrients come second and especially protein.
Generally you could say that calories determine if you maintain your weight, lose weight or gain weight. Macronutrients determine the tissue being lost or gained. To optimise things you want to eat sufficient protein.
 

That and a intermittent fast approach works for me. I can't stress the importance of dropping the alcohol, or drinking any kind of calories if you want to lose fat.

Meat and potatoes combined with Swings and TGU's (provided your working weight is around the 70 pound 'bell) will give enormous benefits. A barbell 5x5/PttP approach after that is what I am doing now. Life is good.
 
For the last decade, I've kind of been doing intermittent fasting (I would essentially skip breakfast and eat a lunch and dinner, maybe a few snacks). My eating window was about from 12pm to 8pm. During this time I tried being a vegan for 1 year, an experiment. This served me well for many years.

Since last summer, I've completely retooled my nutrition. I wanted to make a step change improvement in my strength and lean body mass. Currently following a more bodybuilder type of approach. I'm following guidelines from Stan Effferdings book, The Vertical Diet. I am eating 6 smaller meals per day (sometimes 7 on power lifting training days). I feel fantastic! Initially the meal prep and eating all the time was frustrating. But after a few weeks, I got it down to a science.
 
I do keto and IF and typically do my kettlebell work in the morning during my fasting window. I like that I can successfully get through challenging gym sessions while neither having hunger pangs nor having to deal with my body sidetracked by digestion, etc. Prior to going keto/IF, I had always seemed immune to developing muscle tone, but that immunity has thankfully gone away now.

For myself, I experimented with OMAD, but having all of my macros all in one go shot didn’t agree with me. Currently, on weekends, I do 16:8, and on weekdays, I do roughly 20:4. Late in my work day, I may have something small like chia seed pudding and sardines (separately, not in the same dish. :) ). Then at home, I will have dinner with my wife. By dividing my eating up, I don’t have to deal with excessive digestion from a big OMAD meal interfering with my desire to do whatever evening activities I want to do.
 
Tried IF but couldn’t sustain. Tracking works for me using MFP. As I have got older need to balance other life stress with training stress. I generally train in the evening and I am hungry in the morning. Im not an expert in this field but a reasonable workout coupled with a reasonable diet works for most people.
 
Tried IF but couldn’t sustain. Tracking works for me using MFP. As I have got older need to balance other life stress with training stress. I generally train in the evening and I am hungry in the morning. Im not an expert in this field but a reasonable workout coupled with a reasonable diet works for most people.

Absolutely nothing wrong with that. Fasting has become some kind of fad to the point that some people think there will happen something magical during the times when they don't eat.
 
Fasting works and it's great for your health too. Start something easy like daily 13h fast. I think something like 13h-17h is good minimum for fasting.
 
I eat two meals a day and some days I add one snack. Basically there’s some sort of fasting or under/over eating tactics behind this.
 
Many of us are followers of some form of intermittent fasting. On the recent Joe Rogan podcast, Pavel T. talks about Ori Hoffmekler, the author of The Warrior Diet, and how he eats just once a day. I follow Ori's undereating/overeating model, just coffee and a protein bar or two during the day, then dinner.

I'm pretty close to that.

Breakfast: coffee, with some milk and cream

Snack-sized Lunch: Protein, usually an oily fish. Might be a can of sardines. Some leafy greens.

Dinner (after training): Big
 
High fat coffee and various supplements until noon, then meat, offal, fruit, honey, sometimes full fat dairy, eggs, black beans, tomato paste.

Not meant as The Best, but works for me.
 
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Started my KB journey on IF/keto/carnivore. Felt good for a while. Switched to barbell training about 2 months ago and almost immediately had to add some carbs in to not like bottom out during the day.
Still keeping the protein to 1g/1lb LBM. BUT eating rice. Rice cakes. Potatoes. Fruit. Good bit if yogurt now.

My calories had been SO low for the last year though. And that was taking its toll. Fat loss stopped. Upped my calories by approx 800-1k now and definitely can tell I’m building some muscle but body weight has only increased maybe 3 lbs. pants are looser. I think they call it a recomp. I did some real neurotic trial and error seeing what my actual caloric maintenance was.
 
The best diet to couple with Kettlebells emphasizes fat loss through calorie restriction or intermittent fasting (both of which are usually coupled with weight lifting in order to increase muscle mass).
 
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