Carb Back-Loading Updates

In which we find Kiefer coming out of hiding for a day, only to go back into hiding all this weekend so we can finish this damn book. Also, a little more about the Carb Back-Loading diet software.

I met up with Kiefer Friday afternoon, and as some of you will know from reading the forums, he’s doing a bit better. We surveyed the work ahead of us, and after a week’s worth of recovering from kryptonite exposure, it looks like we’re exactly a week behind.

So. New release date: Friday, December 9th.

When is that “software” coming out? and what will it cost?

We’ve been talking about some “diet software” to accompany the Carb Back-Loading book. While the underlying mechanics have been done for quite while (Kiefer actually coded this stuff up to help come up with diet plans for his own clients), there’s work that needs to be done to integrate this “back end” stuff with an interface.

The plan is to release the software about a month after the Carb Back-Loading book has launched. The first iteration of this product will allow you to do the following:

  • Create a Carb Back-Loading Diet Plan for a whole week.
  • Get a diet sculpted to your specific training time, whether it’s morning, afternoon, or night.
  • Have each meal dictated right down to individual foods — but you’ll have the option of “swapping out” foods you don’t like for foods you prefer.
  • Get specific post-workout macronutrient recommendations for your individual needs.

More on the “food swapping” feature: if, for example, you get a meal such as “bacon, eggs, and spinach” and you decide you don’t like bacon, you’ll be able to click on the bacon and load up a food that’s roughly equivalent in macronutrients to that particular part of the meal — say, smoked salmon.

Over time we’ll be using those swaps to give people a more targeted range of recommendations for their meals, as we collect information about what people seem to like. The result will be better and tastier meal plans for everybody, the more people use the system.

You will be able to come up with your own plans using the Carb Back-Loading book, of course. The diet software will just make it dead simple and “done for you”.

The software will be part of a membership-only web application. Some parts of it may be available free, but the meat of it will be available only through a monthly premium membership. However, we’re going to need guinea pigs to spend some time using it before we really invite a lot of people, so people who buy the Carb Back-Loading book within the first month of its release (in the time leading up to the software release) will have access to a special “charter member” deal for discounted access. You’ll see more about that in future updates.

If you’re a trainer, or you have friends who aren’t gonna take the plunge to try Carb Back-Loading unless you seriously spell everything out for them, or if you just don’t have time to make meal plans for yourself, this software’s going to be one of your favorite tools in your arsenal.

About the Free Book Drawing

Some of you quite astutely pointed out that I never mentioned a drawing date.

The free Carb Back-Loading books will be chosen when we reach 100 unique posts (as in “unique authors”) in each forum, OR when the book is released.

Here are the forums where you can post for a chance to win one of 14 free books:

As of this writing, there’s still room for more posts, so if you’ve been hanging back waiting to post, or you know someone who hasn’t been paying attention the blog lately, go make your post or poke that guy in the arm.

No Fancy Conclusions or References Here

We need to just keep our heads down and get the book out.

Hope you’re having a good weekend. Seems to be sunny in the Bay Area but I haven’t actually seen the daystar in a while…!