Welcome to the Boom Boom Performance Podcast, your resource for science-based training and nutrition,

data-driven coaching, and education-focused content. Before we get into this podcast, I just want to say

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about to learn, take my strategies, use these tools, and finally have

some serious methods to see sustainable success with your physique, your mind, and your life.

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One of the most common questions I get on reverse dieting. So today we are going to talk just about that.

I am going to describe what reverse dieting is. We are going to touch a little bit on metabolic

adaptation, which is also known as adaptive thermogenesis, which is a process that accumulates over

time. It's a hormonal response, essentially, a survival

mechanism, if you will, while you're dieting. So it's something that occurs as you diet and it

kind of builds up over the course of a diet. So we're going to touch on that. We are going to

cover the reverse diet. I am going to refer to the recovery diet, which is a concept and an ideology

created by 3DMJ specifically, I believe it was coined by Jeff

Alberts, but Eric Helms, Albertone, Yunes, Brad, all the people in 3DMJ, the entire team.

They really popularized that for the competitive world, and it's something that I think it should

be more commonly used inside the CrossFit space

and inside the general population space as well, not just the physique, the competitive

physique realm.

But I am going to touch on the recovery diet as well because I think it's important to discuss

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