With a name as incredible as this, you can only assume that you’ll achieve incredible muscle gains and interplanetary strength gains on the bench press. But does the “Warrior Diet” actually have any advantages?

So, what is the “warrior” diet?

In the 90s, there were some studies done on the impact of dieting on Western people’s weight. They arrived at the conclusion that there was an over-consumption of food, due to the existence of so many meals throughout the day, which lead to this diet. Basically it consists in the reduction of the number of daily meals to just one (usually at night), where only organic food was consumed. This means that normally, between 10am and 6pm you can’t eat a single thing. It’s thought that this was the way in which hunter-gatherers ate. They hunted during the day and ate during the night.

What can you eat?

This diet also shares a few basic principles with the Pale diet. It encourages the consumption of natural or organic products, where the foundation of the diet revolves around meat/fish, fruit and vegetables- So alcohol and processed sugars are totally off the table.

Meal examples:

• Breakfast – Nothing
• Lunch – Nothing once again
• Dinner – This meal has to be considerably large, where you can start by eating a salad with many types of raw leaves along with meat or fish. Then, you can eat carbs and fats like beans, fruit, nuts or even brown rice or oatmeal.

Let’s take a look at the pros and cons:

Pros:

1. Like in any “primitive” style diet, it can be quite healthy seeing as you eat an abundance of vitamins and minerals.
2. There’s no doubt that the caloric intake will be reduced, since it’s limited to one meal a day.
3. This type of diet can help to distinguish the concepts of hunger and desire, an important aspect in our opinion.

Cons:

1. Training “heavy” or a lot, will be quite hard while following this diet, since appetite will shoot up because of the high levels of energetic consumption.
2. Less fuel in the tank, less mileage…Even under the premise that our bodies will adapt, performance can be significantly lower since you’ll undergo extended periods of time without food.

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With that being said…

Here is where the superiority of flexible dieting is revealed, since it allows a customization to each person’s needs. By having control/goals regarding macro nutrients, we are able to understand what our body requires to achieve a certain result or goal. It’s like preparing a formula 1 racing car for a specific race. Each person is an independent and unique body, so it makes perfect sense that their diet should be so as well.

Have the best of both world with no diabolical sacrifices.