While I said my wife and I used RP I wanted to share a few more specifics on why we chose RP, what it is, and what we used of theirs, specifically, as well as what we're doing now.
What is RP?
They're a company who is made up of a large board of PhDs, RDs, and current college professors, which is cool. What's more cool is that they largely agree on everything (which is shocking) and the things they don't all agree on (alcohol consumption, for example) they're open about. What's even cooler than that is that they are all Olympic lifters, power lifters, endurance athletes, and/or CrossFitters so they understand the needs of athletes and they are not here for your starvation diets (yay carbs!).
Who uses RP?
I mean, other than the super famous me and my wife.... you can go look through the "RP Transformations" group on instagram. Oh, and they have a few no-name clients too, like Annie Thorisdottir and Rich Froning jr.
What do they offer?
They have nutrition templates as well as workout templates.
They have mass and cut programs, including plans for athletes, non athletes, vegan, gender specific, hypertrophy, etc.
For nutrition they have a Standard Template, for serious athletes, which is macro counting
A new app that is macro calculating
Then they have what my wife and I used: The Simplified Template
The simplified template is macro based, but RP has done all the macro counting for you and all you see is a list of foods from each category (protein, fruits and grains, veggies, and fats) and how many ounces (or tbsp) you are to each of each for each meal. All the meals are the same so you don't have to think about which day it is, which type of meal, or calculate workout times or intensity. It's.... simple.
For us, the Simple plan worked well for our cut, which is what we were using it for! I lost 30 pounds in ~90 days and my wife (who weighed much, _much_ less than I did) lost 12 pounds.
It got us back down to fighting weight, got us exposed to thinking about how macros look, disciplined our food choices, and let us practice meal prep.
We are now nearly 7 weeks past completion of our RP simplified template cut and here we are
(the photo was taken on August 3rd, ~4 1/2 weeks post RP):
In the next blog I'll share what macros we are focusing on now, how you can incorporate that into your life, whether you are wanting to cut, mass, or maintain and whether you are a distance runner or a CrossFitter!
Stay tuned!
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