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How do you gain his level of knowledge?Does he offer any training or qualifications?There are parts of this I don't fully understand, and that's irks me because I train professionally and train others as well.I guess there is so much info in the books one way might be to study the books because you can't take it all in at one sitting, just what you need to do to apply it.
Years and years of reading research and working with people. Currently I don't think he has any form of cert, but I think he has talked about it before.Either way, you probably wont get much info about that kind of stuff from the forums, your best bet would be to try and contact him directly on Facebook or twitter.
Kiefer has a background in physics. This is actually extremely important because the hard sciences train you heavily in math, interpreting data, and critical thinking. Three very important things for interpreting research. Ironically, people with a background in hard science tend to produce better information in the fitness world than people with backgrounds that would seem more applicable like exercise science, medicine, and nutrition.In addition, Kiefer has been researching dieting and training stuff since he was in high school. So if you want his knowledge, you have a lot of reading to do haha.That being said, applying CBL doesn't require his knowledge in my opinion. He wrote the book for the lay person to understand. Just read the book and if you want to take it a step further, read the studies he cites.
Well, yea, I figured that. 8)I really just mean that I currently don't understand the subject to my satisfaction.I am qualified in health and fitness as well, but a lot of that is just baloney. I have a good grasp on a lot of things, have done a heavy amount of research and trial and error over about 6-7 years myself. My specialty is more strength and training. In diet, I pretty much operated on cals in cals out but with high protein and enough fat and cholesterol for good hormone levels. I'd also cycle calories so my metabolism wouldn't dive. I didn't think there was much more to it because I'd not seen or experienced anything different in the multitude of things I came across.When I made efforts with low calories and when others did so we did see good fat loss results, at least when it had enough protein, fats to help muscle and hormones and there were periodic refeeds to restart metabolism. However, it was slow and in light of this new information, also very inefficient.I hadn't come across anyone in fitness in about 3-4 years that I thought knew more than I did, although some people had some intriguing work and some great innovations in certain niches. I guess nothing ever grabbed me enough to know it was worth really looking at as a complete game changer.Then I found Keifer and realised there's a whole new frontier that's way ahead of me. Then I found this forum and found a few or more people that seem to know a lot more than I do as well.I would like to get up to speed, I've not felt behind the curve for a long time. I suppose one way to do it might just be to carry on with the diets and hanging out here and picking things up until it starts to make full or near full sense to me.
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