Your browser (Internet Explorer 6) is out of date. It has known security flaws and may not display all features of this and other websites. Learn how to update your browser.
X
 

Carb Back-Loading Updates

In which we find Kiefer coming out of hiding for a day, only to go back into hiding all this weekend so we can finish this damn book. Also, a little more about the Carb Back-Loading diet software.

I met up with Kiefer Friday afternoon, and as some of you will know from reading the forums, he’s doing a bit better. We surveyed the work ahead of us, and after a week’s worth of recovering from kryptonite exposure, it looks like we’re exactly a week behind.

So. New release date: Friday, December 9th.

When is that “software” coming out? and what will it cost?

We’ve been talking about some “diet software” to accompany the Carb Back-Loading book. While the underlying mechanics have been done for quite while (Kiefer actually coded this stuff up to help come up with diet plans for his own clients), there’s work that needs to be done to integrate this “back end” stuff with an interface.

The plan is to release the software about a month after the Carb Back-Loading book has launched. The first iteration of this product will allow you to do the following:

  • Create a Carb Back-Loading Diet Plan for a whole week.
  • Get a diet sculpted to your specific training time, whether it’s morning, afternoon, or night.
  • Have each meal dictated right down to individual foods — but you’ll have the option of “swapping out” foods you don’t like for foods you prefer.
  • Get specific post-workout macronutrient recommendations for your individual needs.

More on the “food swapping” feature: if, for example, you get a meal such as “bacon, eggs, and spinach” and you decide you don’t like bacon, you’ll be able to click on the bacon and load up a food that’s roughly equivalent in macronutrients to that particular part of the meal — say, smoked salmon.

Over time we’ll be using those swaps to give people a more targeted range of recommendations for their meals, as we collect information about what people seem to like. The result will be better and tastier meal plans for everybody, the more people use the system.

You will be able to come up with your own plans using the Carb Back-Loading book, of course. The diet software will just make it dead simple and “done for you”.

The software will be part of a membership-only web application. Some parts of it may be available free, but the meat of it will be available only through a monthly premium membership. However, we’re going to need guinea pigs to spend some time using it before we really invite a lot of people, so people who buy the Carb Back-Loading book within the first month of its release (in the time leading up to the software release) will have access to a special “charter member” deal for discounted access. You’ll see more about that in future updates.

If you’re a trainer, or you have friends who aren’t gonna take the plunge to try Carb Back-Loading unless you seriously spell everything out for them, or if you just don’t have time to make meal plans for yourself, this software’s going to be one of your favorite tools in your arsenal.

About the Free Book Drawing

Some of you quite astutely pointed out that I never mentioned a drawing date.

The free Carb Back-Loading books will be chosen when we reach 100 unique posts (as in “unique authors”) in each forum, OR when the book is released.

Here are the forums where you can post for a chance to win one of 14 free books:

As of this writing, there’s still room for more posts, so if you’ve been hanging back waiting to post, or you know someone who hasn’t been paying attention the blog lately, go make your post or poke that guy in the arm.

No Fancy Conclusions or References Here

We need to just keep our heads down and get the book out.

Hope you’re having a good weekend. Seems to be sunny in the Bay Area but I haven’t actually seen the daystar in a while…!

Related posts:

DH Naomi

Producer Naomi Most bears the considerable weight of kicking Kiefer's butt to make sure he gets his SHIT done. Naomi is a science nerd with a powerlifting fetish, and can be found drinking coffee and writing like mad on a laptop during the week at various trendy cafes. Evenings and weekends, she's playing hard on playgrounds and at climbing gyms around San Francisco.

December 4, 2011 19 Comments Short URL
  • Richard S

    Alright! Thank you for the update on the book release and even the software! The software sounds really awesome! Thank you again Kiefer and Naomi for the hard work y’all are putting into this! Can’t wait. Four more days!

  • Fiorito

    @Kiefer and Naomi,

    In regards to the software, will it be able to take into account the amounts of food required depending on your training.

    So basically is the software linked to your training?

    eg. Heavy, brutal lower body workout (aka squats,leg presses, hack squats etc.), you would naturally place much more stress on the body then say a shoulder/tricep day. So on a heavy lower body workout you would need to eat more food then the “shoulder/tricep” day just to make up for the energy burned during the workout plus the continuing period afterward.

    • DH Naomi

      Not in the first version, but that’s something we’d like to do in future versions.

      We plan to keep rolling out new versions pretty frequently — possibly every 2-3 months, although some features may be quicker or slower to release.

      • Fiorito

        so would kiefer recommend then just increasing portion sizes depending on the training volume etc especially postworkout

        • DH Naomi

          Most likely. But I don’t think energetic requirements scale linearly with training volume. I do believe they scale more closely with time, but I bet that’s not a linear function either.

          It also matters how much rest you take between sets, how efficiently you’re using fuel, whether you’re fueled with glycogen or fatty acids or amino acids or whatever, and other stuff like that..

          The complexity of the energy equation is what leads someone like Kiefer to rely on his intuition based on body feedback rather than whipping out a calculator.

          • Fiorito

            i look forward to it…just one more quick question, if one was to start using coconut oil “the secret sauce” as you called it as part of a carb back loading plan, does that mean the amounts of fishoil me and most other serious trainers take wont be warranted? or it depends on why you take it?
            Fish oil has a ton of benefits but the main reason i supplement with it is for my joints..especially when i tend to be lifting heavier and a higher volume. My joints hold up heaps better.

          • DH Naomi

            Fish oil (or any EPA/DHA supplement) is highly recommended. The book explains why!

  • Intensity Junkie

    Thanks for the update… I can’t wait for any/all of this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jerad.sharp Jerad Sharp

    So the book drops on the same day I get paid…
    Guess I know what I’m getting on Friday.

  • DH Naomi

    I’m astonished to find that the “successes” thread is leading the “confusions” thread by about 20 posts. That’s pretty awesome!

    Only 21 posts left in the “successes” thread until we do the drawing. (About 42 left for “confusions”.) If you want it to happen sooner, go tell your friends… Or if you want to prevent more competition, go tell your friends Carb Back-Loading sucks and they shouldn’t even think about looking at dangerouslyhardcore.com :D

  • Hbs6

    Does the book come out midnight?

    • DH Naomi

      No, probably in the afternoon, but thanks for asking! :D

  • Hbs6

    at midnight*

  • College Laxer

    Its Dec 9th, where is this awesome new book?? I’ve been refreshing this page all day!

    • DH Naomi

      Oh my. Well if you’re signed up for the site newsletter (see the sidebar), you’ll get the notification as soon as the book goes live! No need to wear out the Refresh button!

  • Guest

    So why can’t I buy the book today?

    • DH Naomi

      Lame-ass excuses coming shortly!

  • Pingback: Carb Back-Loading Book Available Now « « Dangerously HardcoreDangerously Hardcore

  • John

    What those the picture of my book have to do with this post?
    Thanks
    P.S.: By the way I’m the artist behind the Myst book replica/prop.