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My next run will probably be a cut. I have read a lot lately on the warrior diet. Would it be beneficial? People who have use it: was it good? Would it be good with a blueprint run?

It seems like this diet have similarities with the blueprint in regards of the famine/feast/detox and such...

Rob likes it as far as I am aware.

I dont think personally I would use it, even if I was in a 9 till 5 job, but thats where I think it is best suited.If you have a job like that and are a very busy person.

I've dabbled with it, it's not a bad gig if you love eating huge meals and dont mind working out mostly fasted.

You're allowed to snack on a small amount of fruit and nuts throughout the day so it's not total brutality for your 20 hours of undereating/fasting, but its hard to shove 3000 clean calories in such a small window (thats why fast food was created... )

Original Warrior Diet (following recomendations from the book) is not very well suited for those looking big mass gains; but modifications (usually higher protein during undereating and using lots of aminoacids/hydrolisates) are getting very very popular right now.

Coach Thibaudeau (from T-Nation) is now making open recomendations for a WD using casein hydro during undereating;
Wesley Silveira (aka Iron Addicts) has a book on how to mod the diet to something more bodybuilding-oriented;
Michael Keck broke a PL record last year (think it was national level, although some say it was world, I did not check) using a WD mod and is also preparing a book on how to addapt the diet

These are just a few of places that you can take a look on how to tweak the diet and make it more bodybuilding goal oriented. I personally have been following the diet for almost 8 months and loved it since day one; LOTS of energy during the day, extremely practical and made awesome gains regarding body shaping/recomposition. Its kinda hard to follow it for 190lbs+, and *in my opinion* it only shows it pottential with some kinda heavy investments into aminoacids, especially for undereating and workout time.

Hope that helps somehow; also, english is not my first language, sorry for dumb grammar mistakes

Thanks everyone! good review and info. Also Craw, your English is good enough for me considering it is not my first language either

Yes if you take it on definitely take BCAA throughout the day

DaCookie wrote:Yes if you take it on definitely take BCAA throughout the day

What he said. I've done it without and had a serious loss in lean mass.