The Renaissance Diet 2.0: Your Scientific Guide to Fat Loss, Muscle Gain, and Performance

This material is very thorough and extremely useful for learning about what makes up a SUCCESSFUL diet. Dieting comes in many different forms and everyone is different. Luckily, the folks at Renaissance Periodization have given a perfect framework in this book so that ANYONE can achieve their goals of losing fat, gaining muscle, and achieving optimal performance. This book IS NOT a book of hacks/secrets/fads to instant results. That doesn't exist. If that's what you're looking for, you're in for a disappointing journey. This book IS a science based guide that anyone can learn from to refocus their energy on the diet priorities and build a lasting and healthy relationship with food.The text has a huge number of references to back up the beliefs stated within. Not only does this book lay out the scientific principles of nutritional success, it also debunks many of the myths associated with current fads, "healthy eating", and nonsense that people have become too focused on. The greatest part about the authors is that they never let their ego or opinions get in the way of good science. If there is significant research with data unanimously pointing toward a certain conclusion, they will tell you. If there are studies with differing results or not enough data to show correlation AND causation, they will tell you. They aren't afraid to tell you when there isn't enough science to support a specific topic and this is important because it prevents misinformation or arbitrary rules in the nutrition and training world.It is all to common to find fitness influencers online trying to sell you on some "long forgotten secret" to dieting or "the ONE food for success that 'the industry' doesn't want you to know". This book is far from that. This text shows that there really aren't any "secrets". The dieting principles in this book aren't fancy and they aren't going to give you "instant" results. In fact, this kind of dieting is quite boring when compared to many of the current fads at the time of the publication of this book. The difference is that this kind of dieting has enough scientific studies to conclusively show what will work for anyone.It should be noted that the book is printed in black and white and since I was already familiar with their ebook, I was surprised that the graphics in this book weren't all in color as well. This isn't a big problem though and the print quality is still very good. The outer cover of this book has a matte/velvet type of texture that feels great. I expect that I will probably refer to this book for the rest of my life. It's THAT good!TL;DR There is certainly enough scientific data on dieting and performance nutrition that can unanimously point to what definitely does work, definitely doesn't work, and may/may not work. This book consolidates these principles so that people can be efficient with their nutrition and build lifelong habits. Start focusing on the things that objectively work and stop listening to all of the noise surrounding the nutrition industry.

This book was a real eye opening experience for me. I’ve read a million diet books and this is something so much more. It really corrected so many beliefs I had about dieting. This book is based on science and research. Not some Instagram influencer trying to scam you out of money. Some of the things I learnedArtificial sweeteners aren’t as bad for you as we thought.When trying to lose weight you should do a 12 week weight loss cycle. After that take a break and do a “maintenance phase”. After that start a new 12 week cycle. This maintenance phase will reduce dieter fatigue and increase your chances of compliance.If you want to lose weight you need to be in a calorie deficit. That’s it. While this is nothing new the book directly says.......if your not losing weight over a period of time you are not in a calorie deficit. If the scale isn’t moving you aren’t converting muscle to fat etc. You simply are eating to muchThe book is backed by many published studies. One thing I loved is that it never felt like a shameless plug machine for there other products. That have an app and other products but its never plugged in the book. This book felt like an honest, heavily researched publication to help you lose weight. I highly recommend

Followed the weight loss regime and when I bought this book 9.15.2020 I was 208 lbs, today only 5 months later I am 185 lbs and 23.8 BMI. For exercise I walk the dog 2xday 30 min each, Saturdays I do 10 mile cycle, Sunday 3 mi run and Tuesday 35 min kettlebells/yoga. I first only read ch1,3 and 10. With the help of my calculator I got my macros and calories set. I eat 3 meals and 2 snacks almost every day and have seen consistent reduction of 1 lb per week. I feel great and this is a regime I follow easily. I am 55 and feel as good as when I was 30! If you want a renaissance in your health get this book and implement the principles. For the non athlete this is 80% of the road map to better health! The other 20% is your own determination!8/8/2021 - hit my goal weight last week of 175lbs. I feel better than good! Your turn to take action!

I have done diets for years but this was way beyond my understanding.

I don't often leave book reviews but wanted to leave one for this book. This is seriously one of the greatest books on sports nutrition. I am a strength and conditioning specialist and often have my nose in content to improve my knowledge on nutrition, exercise physiology, etc etc. There is a vast amount of content and nuance that exists in this realm and the Renaissance Diet 2.0 does a brilliant job at addressing them! The book provides a wealth of knowledge from macros, nutrient timing (pre, intra, and post exercise nutrition), cutting and bulking, debunking, and so much more! It is very affordable too. That said, If you are interested in expanding your knowledge more with objective science based insight that is simple to read (another plus) I would definitely go ahead and put this little guy in your shopping cart! Buy a highlighter too :)

I have looked at numerous books for training-focused diet, and this is thorough, comprehensive, and logically laid out. Excellent all around.

The only missing information is dealing with emotional eating or binge eating. But this book provides a lot of theory about how to create the best diet plan to support muscle growth. Although it doesn't provide any strategies on how to eat like a bodybuilder. It basically says, "Eat 4-6 servings of protein with carbs and low fats", but doesn't tell you how to transition from a normal civilian lifestyle to bringing tupperwares / meal prepping all the time.

This book’s entire structure is based off of sound, proven, scientific principles, that over hundreds and even thousands of years have proven to be successful when attempting to build your ideal physique.

This book is a nutrition bible; it covers everything you need to know about using nutrition as a tool to reach your body goals, whether that is fat loss, muscle gain or just being healthier overall.All of the information is really clearly laid out and easy to understand. I also love that it is purely science based: they don’t try to push fad diets, useless supplements etc.I’d say this was aimed towards those who are familiar with training and eating relatively well, but just want to dial it up a notch. However, this would also be really useful for anyone wanting to learn more about nutrition from scratch.

Coming from someone who usually reads scientific articles, it feels so good to read something as condensed as this. I usually go back and forth, from one citation to another, however, this book has it all, from general to concrete info, to practical application. I love the addition of special population considerations, rather than focusing only on general or athletic populations alone.

Cannot recommend this book enough to anyone who cares about their health, performance, physique or who just want to understand the fundamentals of a good diet. Easy to understand, super informative and covers everything you need to know. Its helped me construct my own diet and macro templates for my specific goals, and its working!

Very very good book for beginners and more advanced. No gimmicks. Just facts and evidence based nutrition advice. Touches on many other diets and fads and Why or why they aren’t worth it. Very very good book. Best I’ve read yet and I have been bodybuilding and dieting for years. I appreciated it and my wife who is new to nutrition did as well

Some of the best informations you can get about dieting