Besides music, throughout the years, I produced various content. Despite that, several posts continue to be of most interest to my viewers and readers. Those are the ones regarding my experiences with fasting and bodybuilding on the OMAD plan. Considering this and the last’s incredible potential, my mind came up with the idea of writing a book. Said differently, I recognized the need for a convenient, practical manual on utilizing the OMAD plan to improve health, physical appearance and develop a proper relationship with food.
Time passed, and that idea started chasing me day and night. For this, I didn’t wait but began working on it. Already progressing with that, I got struck by an insight that wasn’t to be ignored. Doing natural bodybuilding and following the OMAD plan brought incredible value to my life. Nevertheless, that wasn’t the only optimization I applied for the time being. Simultaneously, I explored various fields, implementing tactics, literally indispensable for this whole lifestyle. Along with that, as a former substance-and-food abuser and self-help junkie, I learned quite a few life lessons. The last being not just about food and bodybuilding but also life and personal development.
This caused the concept to evolve. It expanded from a purely natural-bodybuilding-on-the-OMAD-plan nutrition and training program into a complete self-development system. Giving me peace of mind (of doing something I’ll never regret), this direction change exponentially increased my work as an author and editor. Obviously, it delayed publishing, causing plenty of anxiety and other bad feelings. Nevertheless, about two months ago finally self-published my first book. Called OMAD GAINS Practical Self-Help and Natural Bodybuilding, the same is divided into three parts. So, let me dedicate this post to briefly overviewing each.
Part 1. Adaptation and Nutrition
After the full story of its creation and what to expect from its 30 chapters, which is the introduction, the book starts with its largest and “most basic” part. Addressing fundamental truths about our race, nutrition, and the food industry, chapters 2 to 7 take you on a multiple-stage journey. Embarking on it by following the instructions produces several outcomes.
(1) Adopting the OMAD eating pattern by entirely eliminating hunger from your life and becoming excellent in burning stored energy as a primary fuel (all day, every day). No, not through discipline or sheer willpower, but by optimizing your physiology and becoming attuned with your body. (2) Maximizing recovery and muscle building. (3) Obtaining the crucial-for-hard-training-athletes high metabolic flexibility. Hence turning your body into what’s known as a readily-switching-fuels duel-burner/engine.
(4) Discovering your personal food intolerances and which products to include in your regimen via an incredibly efficient food-testing protocol. (5) Using this to build your own diet cycles based on your unique situation, workouts, overall activity, and time of the year. (6) Erasing any shame or guilt you may have regarding eating, mainly due to modern culture and following the wrong advice. (7) Learning how to enjoy quality food to the fullest. (8) Enabling longer fasts as an extremely potent multipurpose tool. And (9) eradicating any psychological connection you may have to your former eating habits and way of perceiving food.
Being part one’s first portion, chapters 2 to 7 add layers of understanding of all this. The next couple deals with two things that can’t be overemphasized: Sleep and Hydration. Explaining water’s enormous importance for overall health, mental and physical performance, muscle gains, and of course, appetite suppression, chapter 8 teaches how to jumpstarts proper hydration. It also gets into the kinds and quantities to consume as a bodybuilder, and the times of the day this is most crucial.
Similar to this, chapter 9 examines the best tactics for ensuring you get enough quality rest. Starting with a brief analysis of some critical mistakes our society adopted as a norm, these 40+ pages show how to sleep like million bucks. That being by developing a proper sleep schedule suiting yours and not someone else’s aspirations.
Though I give some suggestions on this, utilizing the provided information allows waking up and going to bed whenever you want. Along with all this, chapter 9 also discusses the naps’ implication for hard-training athletes and high-performing humans.
Next, part 1 proceeds with 3 chapters solely on food. The first two discuss the best products to make staples when creating your own diet cycles. No, this isn’t only for muscle building and recovery. It’s also for overall health, mood, and mental performance. The last one of those three chapters examines foods that, nevertheless, aren’t that much of nutritional powerhouses are worth experimenting with and perhaps incorporating into your regimen. Covering all three food groups, those chapters also include simple recipes and suggestions on the exact days consuming a particular product is most beneficial.
After all this, part 1 ends with a chapter on coffee and tea and another on supplementation. Both full of explications; the latter contains a list of essential-to-this-lifestyle-and-bodybuilding supplements.
Part 2. Training
All about working out, this one begins with a couple of chapters conveying the book’s training philosophy. A combination of carefully selected methods invented by some of the most legendary bodybuilders, the last teaches several things…
(1) Maximizing results by making less more and keeping your joints healthy. So, you can continue training when older. (2) Recognizing your physique as an expression of who you are and working to obtain the desired shapes and forms. Thus to attain the body you and not someone else wants to see. (3) Developing your own training splits, utilizing the mentioned methods. And (4) Organizing each workout for maximum effectiveness.
Along with detailed explications on achieving these, the same two chapters go through various training tools and techniques. They also give some “food for thought” regarding training. That’s either based on the wisdom of some of the greatest to ever do it or on insights I got on my own journey.
Ending with sample workouts to employ as an example when customizing your training, those chapters don’t skimp on explaining exotic and alternative ways of performing individual exercises. Finally, they also cover how to get a great workout even when not visiting a gym. And this is how the second part ends.
Part 3. Life Lessons and Spiritual Development
My personal favorite, this part begins with a little essay. Provoking a healthy skepticism toward anything advertised as “scientifically proven” or “backed by science,” the same is called The Scientific Evidence. It discusses well-documented cases of when science appeared to be wrong, and that did massive damage on a grand scale.
Aiming to prevent losing your common sense, this chapter proceeds by commenting on what I believe transformed bodybuilding into the perverted freak show we see nowadays and standardized the conventional fitness diet and lifestyle. It also compares some older and most recent studies on nutrition. “Particularly” how the former affected multiple generations, causing the obesity crisis humanity faces today. Lastly, the essay suggests a little approach to take regarding anything advertised as scientifically proven. And mainly when this happens in the realms of wellness and self-help…
Bodybuilding
Following the previous comes another essay. Called “Bodybuilding,” this inspires seeing bodybuilding in a different light. That being as an art form and a mighty tool for self-actualization. Revealing its true nature and original concept, this chapter also shares an untold story about me. Namely about the pivotal life episode causing me to ditch conventional wisdom and appreciate bodybuilding for what it is.
Sex Alchemy
Next on the menu, part three proceeds with one of the most crucial chapters in the book. That’s the one teaching how to utilize your sex energy properly. Beginning with explications and examples about the same force’s power, the chapter continues with series of actionable tactics. It also includes studies, ageless pieces of wisdom, discussion of some of the “biggest” psychological discoveries, references, and real-life stories of my own journey of sex transmutation. Last but not least, it concludes with a unique perspective to possibly adopt toward your partner/s… and some other “special” things in your life.
Stillness and Relaxation; Breathing and Meditation
Starting with mastering the arts of stillness and relaxation, these proceed with utilizing rhythmic breathing and employing your imagination when meditating. Also outlining more complex meditations, the same couple gives a background on everything written in it. Lastly, these chapters conclude with my thoughts on why the contained-in-them practices are perfectly-suitable for our day and age.
Goal Setting, Prayer, and Gratitude
Complementing the previous three, chapter 27 starts by employing a mighty ancient glyph to help set goals and succeed in achieving them. Along with this, it shows how motivation can be a “bad thing.” Sharing some rhymes of mine, then the chapter proceeds by making you reconsider how you view prayer… And hopefully, start using the right kind. Finally, it ends with explications and studies on gratitude while adding suggestions on making it part of your day.
Drugs, Recap, and Additional Thoughts
Wrapping-up the whole book and sharing some of my darkest memories, this couple begins with a summary of my experiences with various substances. After that, chapter 30 re-discusses each of the program’s segments in a slightly different manner. Through this, it inspires seeing the book from a perspective beyond bodybuilding, health, and optimization.
It shows that despite seemingly not having much in common, the provided tools function together with incredible efficiency. Besides that, it severely questions the strongly-advertised necessity of drug usage for performance enhancement, recreational (and in some cases even medicinal) purposes. Explaining why you really aren’t lazy or undisciplined as the gurus adore blaming you, those paragraphs present an extremely beneficial outlook to adopt — that being not just toward everything learned but also your most valuable faculties and life in general. After this, the book goes through its afterword and gives thanks to the readers for their time.
Comments
Being my first one, I investеd my heart and soul into creating OMAD GAINS. A collection of essays, it’s based on the works of some of the best (or most legendary) in their fields. From modern scientists and researchers to iconic bodybuilders, artists, and inventors. From brilliant thinkers and authors to great spiritual leaders. Packing tons of studies and ageless wisdom, the book also includes my personal experiences and stories with all of its methods.
Available on Amazon on paper-back and reflowable kindle, it’s 790 pages of readily digestible conversational style. Not including schemes nor diagrams, I really pushed myself as a writer to be maximally detailed about everything presented.
With the name OMAD GAINS, I express my deep reverence for bodybuilding and the OMAD plan. Not just for my physique but more important for how they helped me develop as a human being.
While “Natural Bodybuilding” is pretty self-explanatory, practical self-help refers to a body of work that, rather than feeding you hollow motivation (leaving you high and dry) or scolding you for being undisciplined, contains nothing but practical information and action items. The same, you shouldn’t apply blindly but rather experiment with and further customize on your own. This implies lots of self-observation, independent thinking, and actively fine-tuning the presented methods to make each yours. We are all different. And that’s something the program “greatly” considers.
All about making gradual, long-lasting changes, the book has nothing to do with mindlessly pushing yourself into stuff you hate. Nor with dieting, calorie tracking, fitting-things-in-macros, quick fixes, shortcuts, or 30-day challenges. Instead, it provides the freedom of that while making you reconsider some essential things in life.
My best way of explaining it is this. Naturally building your best physique and improving health while increasing self-knowledge-and-reliance and mastering what Napoleon Hill calls the three basic appetites. Or doing the former 4 by getting the defined-by-Qabalah as your Nephesh or Animal Soul under control, collaborating with you. And when that’s achieved, magical things happen.
The book has 2 dedications. One is to my mother; two is to all people who found the earlier-mentioned content helpful. Ultimately, however, it’s written for the kind of person I was before embarking on this journey. I needed this exact kind of book, but the same didn’t exist. Though, there were other great ones I’m referring to.
For this, I wanted to spare that person all the struggles he went through because of wasting time searching for answers in mainstream self-help, motivational speakers, fitness magazines, and so-called experts and gurus. Does this mean that the book is perfect? Or that I have outstanding English and writing, editing, and cover-designing skills. No, it doesn’t. Nonetheless, the book packs tons of information you’ll hardly regret having all in one place. Plus, nothing seems to be sure with this Covid crisis. So, I wanted to make it readily available to help others as soon as possible.
Interdisciplinary, it’s unique on its own and greater than the sum of its parts. And now it lives its own life. So, I can do something else, proceeding on my journey of (what certain spiritual traditions define as) coming into being.
