Why the most likely part? If my body turns to body fat for energy then why would carbs be necessary? Isn't energy = energy? I'm a noob on this and just asking questions to get a better undertanding.

It doesn't really work that way. I'll let others elaborate.

really?

just try it and get back to us. i don't know all the scientific details, but from my experience, no carbs = bonk out during WOs. Or rather, in my case, low carbs. I've never gone no carbs. I'm sure it'd suck bad.

low carb, low fat diet = chicken breast for every meal IMO.

= protein poisoning.

Low carb low fat would kill you. You'd be eating 500 calories of chicken breast and a few dry heaping tablespoons of whey straight from the jar.

nottom,

re: your squats.

don't look too bad. on the rear view, you can see your knees cave slightly and your heels come off the ground on some reps. Which makes some sense, because on the side view, you're not sitting back much, mostly just descending straight down, so the weight isn't balanced properly. I think you could try widening your stance an inch or so and focusing on sitting back and keeping the weight on your heels.

otherwise they look pretty dece.

This is basically exactly what the RFL diet (or a PSMF) is. As long as you do the occasional refeed, take a few supplements (multi-vit, fish oils), and have plenty of fat to lose, you should be fine.

This.

Aside from essential fatty acids there are no basically no benefits to having moderate or more fat intake on a diet like Atkins or RFL. They just serve to add more calories. There is evidence however that low/no-carb and high fat dieters are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease.

lol "this". an RFL is a short term crash diet. lol @ anyone doing it long term. you NEED fat.

Yes it is. And Atkins is supposed to be done for life? I'm clearly talking about fat needs as they relate to a fairly extreme diet. Reading comprehension.

Need was the wrong word, but should is probably accurate.

Well yea I would do Atkin's for a few months because I do need to lose the weight. It would not be a longterm thing for sure. Things like eggs, turkey, chicken, steak are the things I would basically live off of (I can't eat fish)

blackize,

Please stop posting misleading information that is both 1) dumb 2) stupid.

It was pointed out in my log that the bar isn't always level on my squats (ie one side goes down/up faster than the other). It's also pretty common that the weights will have shifted half an inch to an inch after a set without clips. How big of a deal is this? I play a lot of badminton which involves lunging exclusively with my right leg which likely leads to some strength/flexibility imbalances (?), is there anything I should be doing to compensate for that? FWIW I feel like my right hip flexor is tighter than the left when I warm up and foam rolling is much more painful on the right side than left. Thanks.

Try to squat evenly? If you are consistently doing it with one side, it might be easy to compensate.

This is something I was unclear on.

Power cleans are basically just an expression of strength, correct? Same with the o-lifts and vertical leap? You don't gets tons stronger by doing lots of that stuff, you get stronger doing the heavy slow lifts and then that translates to a higher PC, bigger vert, and more impressive o-lifts. Do I have the idea on that correct?

I think I've heard this numerous times, but I might have misunderstood.

If that's what the general idea is, I don't think I really agree with it. I think someone has to work at the power based lifts to get good at them, and while strength obviously helps, I don't think you can simply squat and dead lift without ever doing PCs and watch your PC magically go up anywhere near the rate that someone else's does who routinely incorporates them into their program.

I dunno.

your potential goes up. if you never do them, you will have a terribly hard time realizing much of the potential.

No. This is incorrect. I'd say a snatch is an expression of strength. But a power clean is not. The movement are fundamentally different in the level of technical proficiency and strength required to perform them. A power clean is more difficult to complete than a regular clean. You must be stronger to perform a power clean than a regular clean. blah blah blah

Like being good at the O-lifts, if we can exclude skill, would require doing few O-lifts and instead a ton of variants.

Ok I think I get it. I was wrong to group some of those lifts together.

New question, unrelated:

On my new and improved diet of simply eating ~2k calories every day with +200g protein and working out 2 times a week, how long do you think it would take me to get from 25% body fat (6'1" 205) to 15% body fat? Is this achievable in 3 months?

Assuming no LBM loss, that's -25 lbs. 25 lbs/12 weeks = roughly 2 lbs a week. Sounds doable.

You need to factor in some LBM loss though, but the BF reduction sounds roughly doable.

Yeah you need fat, but if you body already has plenty of fat on it then you don't really need to eat any more aside from some essential fatty acids which can be taken as supplements. Obviously, no one is advocating running a straight PSMF for any sort of long term diet, but it can be done for a few months with proper refeeds. Lyle even posts a picture of a guy who lost 95lb in 3 months on the RFL homepage.

How can a 1000 calorie diet not make you crash after a few weeks? Especially for a really big guy

What does this mean? "Crash" is a nonsense word.