At 7 Week Out Of Natural Bodybuilding Prep, I Powered Up An Old Staple In My Toolbox 🧰 Ketogenic Nutrition! 🍏
Entering this prep, I made a deliberate and strategic decision: to implement a ketogenic nutrition model during one of the most metabolically demanding phases of contest prep.
Some might challenge it but my results speak for themselves:
✅ Clear focus
✅ Stable energy
✅ Controlled hunger
✅ Lean tissue preserved
✅ Zero crash dieting
✅ Zero Brain Fog
Science-Backed Precision:
The ketogenic diet, when applied correctly, has evidence-backed benefits in specific contexts particularly when:
Training volume is high
Fat adaptation is already in place
Glycogen demand is predictable and controlled
Research has shown:
Elevated mitochondrial efficiency (Phinney & Volek, 2015)
Reduced central fatigue via ketone utilization (Cox et al., Cell Metabolism, 2016)
Improved fat oxidation at rest and during submaximal effort (Lambert et al., 1994)
Preservation of lean mass in caloric deficits when protein is well calibrated
And let’s not ignore the real-world benefit: mental clarity, simplified food choices, and minimal digestive distress which, at 7 weeks into a prep through to its final hour makes for great strides, makes a huge difference to performance and consistency tenfold.
🥩🫑🥚🥬 Meat, eggs, fibrous vegetables, strategic fats these are performance foods.
I’m not guessing. Every ingredient, every macro, every micronutrient serves a purpose. This isn’t just dieting it’s performance medicine.
If you’re a coach, athlete, or performance nutritionist this is where anecdotal experience meets hard data.
Real time ketogenic dieting isn’t for everyone, but for the right individual, under the right conditions, it’s a clinical tool for metabolic mastery.
Let’s push the boundaries of what’s “supposed” to work.
Elite nutrition isn’t about trends, it’s about what works, at the right time, for the right physiology.
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