Adam Schafer

It was very strategic.

It was very methodical.

It's like, OK, for these days, I want you to increase these calories or add this to your diet.

Now, aren't there studies to support, too, that one of the most beneficial ways, too, is to actually undulate them throughout even the week, right?

Where it's like one day you might have a maintenance or surplus day.

Another day you have a stronger deficit.

So we've seen studies on that also, right?

Yeah.

But your weekly average is always on the deficit.

Well, anybody who's watched a full season of Biggest Loser has seen multiple examples of this.

Yes.

All of the studies afterwards, I followed them.

Many times, you would see some of these competitors show up to their weigh-in and have lost no weight.

Sometimes even a little bit of fluctuation up.

Yet, they're in a very strict condition.

calorie deficit and exercise routine tons of activity and so you know when we think about like well wait a second i thought we just need to be in this calorie deficit to lose weight there's more to it than just that and i think this is an example that is like where their body is adapting to all the stress that's how that they're putting them through it's like you're training me so hard you're only giving me 1500 calories maybe the first week or two i saw great results from that

But sooner or later, the body starts to stall out and go like, okay, this is too much.

I'm going to hold on to everything I can, which is that metabolic adaptation happening.

And again, if you've watched the show, you've seen this happen to people.

Anybody who's trained enough clients long enough has also seen this firsthand when you're training a client.