Testimonials

Hi Ori,

I know you must get a ton of emails so I'll keep this as short as I can. First I want to just give you some quick history about my situation. I have been overweight my entire life, I have always been thick and muscular underneath my fat which is a positive I suppose if I could ever peel the layers of fat off my body.

I'm 5'8'' tall 28 years old and currently weigh about 235lbs In highschool I wrestled at 190lbs and in the last 7 years I have been as low as about 175 or so. Even at 175 I would consider myself about 20 lbs overweight. in other words not even close to a hard lean look... At 175 I found it nearly impossible to maintain that weight, at the time I was doing weight training and a lot of running to nowhere about 5 times a week for at least an hour if not 2 hours each session. I gain nearly all of my weight in my belly area and love handles.

I am a Fedex delivery driver and work about 55 to 60 hours a week. About 3 months ago I hurt my ankle at work and had about 2 months off. I was sick of feeling lethargic and looking fat and overweight. I had let myself go to nearly 260lbs. I started looking on the internet and searching for fat blasting cardio routines that I could do when my ankle felt better. Thats when I came across Pavel Tsatsuline and kettlebells. Long story short I ordered a starter kit and couldn't wait to get started...

While looking at dragondoor.com's website I saw the links and info about the warrior diet and I went out the next day and bought your book The Warrior Diet.

After about 8 weeks on the Warrior diet combined with kettlebell training I have lost 25lbs and I am thrilled. I must admit that I was very skeptical of the warrior diet concept and expected to feel weak and exhausted all day long. Man was I wrong, luckily I was off work so I was able to prepare all the foods and vegetables and things I would need for the diet in the the first few weeks. I bought a juicer and I absolutely love drinking fresh juice every day for "breakfast" and before my salad in the evening main meal (everything organic of course). My wife is absolutely thrilled about my HUGE increase in energy. From the very first week I have been helping her around the house way more, doing laundry, dishes, and helping her keep the house in order. All things I used to dread and argue with her about I don't even mind doing at all, it is so strange sometimes I can't even believe it.

Over this past weekend I downloaded all the radio shows from The Warrior Within. I absolutely love listening to these shows. I even ordered Marty's new book the Purposeful Primitive last night. I havent quite caught up on all the episodes of the radio show yet and I had a couple of questions about the under-eating phase and my workout recovery meal.

First I was wondering, my job is pretty active I have clocked it with a pedometer and I walk about 5-7 miles a day, upstairs, up hills, carrying heavy boxes and so forth. I realize now after listening to you and Marty that pretty much I might as well be washing dishes or gardening. In other words, yes Im burning a few calories but obviously not enough to change my body, since my job alone will not take the fat off me. I usually do my tougher workout in the morning at 5am for about a half hour. I am following Pavel's program in Enter the Kettlebellon light days I just juice and have maybe a little bit of organic 1% milk (going to switch to Whole Milk) after my morning workout.

I work from about 6am to 6pm Mon-Fri. My food that I bring for the day usually consists of a 4-5 strawberries, a small salad usually just some romain lettuce maybe a little onion and mushroom and light dressing or no dressing. Also for the late after noon I have about 6-8 almonds and 4-5 walnuts.

Recently I started taking my 35lbs kettlebell to work and doing some variety work and sometimes some intense workouts during my lunch break. I go to a park and workout outside, it is absolutely great to workout on the grass outside. I was wondering first of all if I'm not really hungary or don't feel like eating at all during the day should I still eat the strawberries and salad and stuff anyway, or is it better not to eat at all if I don't really have the desire to eat and just wait for the main meal in the evening. To put it simply, if under eating all day is good, is not eating at all a little better? especially if I'm not really craving anything?

Also on days when I workout twice a day (once in the morning and once at work) or workout at work pretty hard, what should I bring for a replacement meal... sometimes I will bring an apple or something but I'm just not sure what I should be eating after working out. Let me also say that I am not afraid of hard work. I will be picking up the intensity alot more after listening to you and Marty. I am planning on purchasing some of your products such as the vitamins and protien milk and so forth in the near future but I would really love to know what whole foods would be best to eat after a hard workout that will feed my body the nutrition it needs to recover and grow.

Thank you for all that you do, sorry this email is way longer than I intended. Just want you to know that I am spreading the warrior diet word as far as I can. This is the only diet I have ever tried that I honestly believe I will never stop I've seen so many benefits in just 8 weeks it's incredible...

THANK YOU ORI

Sincerely,

Matt Klein
mrk.klein@gmail.com

Notes on my story:

Three years ago I had just gained sixty pounds for the third time.  At five feet ten inches I was a swollen Two Hundred Seventy Seven pounds.  You see I was one of the guys who tried every diet.  On every fade diet, I did lose weight, only to gain it all back and then some.  Atkins, Zone, South Beach, Jenny Craig, Diet pills, Diet drinks, you name it I tried it.  The more I dieted the sicker I became.  Addicted to alcohol, sugar, and antibiotics, I was becoming a shell of a man.  When I got stressed, I ate.  When I was depressed I drank, and when I was happy I rewarded my self with both.  I was taking antibiotics every six weeks to treat chronic sinus infections.  I was living a sedentary life stile that cheated me from enjoying so much.

I know people were concerned about me, my own Mother tried to pay me twenty five thousand dollars to loose weight and I couldn’t.  Ten years rolls by now I had just visited my third cardiologist office thinking I’m going to die of heart disease or numerous other diseases and I was feeling absolutely lost.  Then a colleague said, “you look like shit” and gave me a copy of the Warrior Diet book.  I took it home that evening and read it cover to cover.  The next day I called my associate and asked if this was for real.  This diet seems intense and counter to everything I’ve tried before.  He said, “this is not a diet, it is a way of life”.  He told me it would be hard but to give it three weeks.

I read the book through again.  On my second reading it started to really make sense to me.  Cycling between under eating and being able to over eat at diner sounded like something I could pull off.  Sure it will be hard to under eat during the day, but I thought if I stay busy and keep looking forward to the diner, I will be ok.  I know I can do any diet for a couple weeks and I was desperate for something, so I gave it a whirl.

I followed the book like it was religious commitment.  Eating exactly as it required.  I bought the supplements and went for it.  It was extremely tough!  I wanted to quit by the second day.  Some how I managed to make it to the end of the first week.  To my astonishment I had lost nine pounds in the first week.  Well this gave the inspiration to go on another week.  The second week was tougher then the first.  It was like I was going through withdraw for sugar and booze.  My only saving grace was eating until fully satiated at night.  The end the second week came, I got on the scale and had lost another seven pounds.  This is the most I had lost in a two week period.  I said to myself, I can do it another week.  The third week was even harder then the second.  I had tremendous cravings for everything, pizza, steak, cookies.  I was also feeling tired.  I had such good results the first two weeks that I somehow pushed myself through the third week.  I got on the scale and had lost an additional five pounds.  I had lost twenty one pounds in three weeks.  I was stoked!

I contact my associate and told him the good news.  He was very pleased for me, but reminded me that this is a life style, not a diet.  I knew he was right so I reached out to the author, Ori Hofmekler.

I found Ori to be incredibly passionate about the way man is supposed it eat.  He provided me insight to why we need to shift from under eating to the main meal.  Moreover, he helped to understand shifting from detox, to high fat, to Carb fuel.  He casted a light on so many areas that were unclear to me.

Ori and I began to communicate about my progress.  This book and his consultation was life altering to say the least.  One year after I started the diet I had lost seventy seven pounds.  I was two hundred pounds and feeling great.  I had cut all processed foods from my diet, alcohol, and red meat.  I was feeling incredible.  The warrior way was truly a life style for me for the rest of my life.  I packed foods when on the road (tactical nutrition).  I even brought my own food to family functions.  Eating low on the food chain, detoxing properly and cycling fuels has lead to such improvement in my health.   My testosterone is now normal (my wife is happy about this), my cholesterol is normal, my blood pressure is normal and most importantly, I have had one sinus infection in the last two years.

This is where it gets good.  Ori introduced me to Controlled Fatigue Training (CFT).  This gave me the proper tools to exercise efficiently and has man was meant to train.  This training is what has made me a harden warrior.  I went from two hundred pounds down to one hundred and sixty four pounds.  My body fat is bellow 10%.  I am stronger both mentally and physically then I ever thought I could be.  I will be forty this year and I feel better than when I was twenty.  In fact most twenty year olds could not keep up with the workouts I do.

I owe so much to Ori and the Warrior way.  I was once a lost suffering sole and now have found the path to mental and physical enlightenment.  When I’m out, I look around and see these fat suffering people.  They remind me so much of who I was.  Medicating with alcohol to have a good time and forget.   I watch them eat food that is killing them and shake my head.  I see these people trapped in bodies that can not perform even simple function.  They think there happy.  They don’t know any better…
 
I was hiking in the north of Italy last year.  I hiked to the top of a mountain right at the edge of the Mediterranean sea.  The view was spectacular.  It occurred to me that very few people have come to this spot.  It also occurred to me that three years ago I would not have been able to enjoy this moment on so many levels.

Thanks,
David

6 Pounds lean Gain AND 3,2% Body-Fat in Winter Off-Season?!
“I am getting fitter and fitter!” … with the Warrior Diet also beside the Competitions always on Top!

Testimonial Statement of professional World Cup Climber Jürgen Reis from Austria – www.juergenreis.com

Note: Jürgen Reis already wrote an article about his way thru his very best world cup season. If you haven’t read this, please get on this site following this Link####Statement 1#####. You will learn more about him, his sports and his successful way with Ori Hofmeklers Coachings and instructions.

As a professional world cup sports competition climber, I am always curious about new knowledge, every training, nutrition or mental strategy that makes me stronger, I want to know it! One of my passions besides my sport is also, like Ori do, writing and publishing books###link to www.peak-prinzip.com### about training and nutrition. I also offer coachings and try to do my best, to make Oris ways also in Europe common.

So, after finishing also a very great Season 2007 after all, I certainly enjoyed to stay on the Warrior Diet with all the advantages, even for my rest days.

The success season continued!

I am sure, it was no manner of luck, that I was able to continue my very best results in the “International Climbing-Competition-World”:

The Highlights in 2007 were

26th place at Worldcup Weltcup Valence (FRA) November (Semifinals)
26th place World Championship Aviles (SPA) September (Semifinals)
9th place 18. Int. Masters Serre Chevalier (FRA)
2nd place Austrian Championship-Cup 2007 Vöcklabruck

As you see in my results: I am still doing perfect with the principles of Oris Warrior Diet. The undereating during the day, allows me to train hard in my splitted routines during the day. But also on rest days, I enjoy the high energy level. The dinner in the evening is great and I sleep like a baby afterwards. I normally eat several snacks during the day and always about the same amount at the same time. BEFORE I GET HUNGRY! Also I eat the same Warrior-Snacks on 4-5 days a week. What I take really serious, is my special During- and after Workout Nutrition. This was one of the main things, Ori told me to make it perfect! My Warrior dinners also do not make any troubles – I love to keep it as simple as possible. Some of my healthy, effective and easy to prepare recipes I also described in my new german book “Power-Quest”####link www.peak-prinzip.com###.

Low Carb and High Carb Cycles …

improve my power and made my body and mind work better and better, since I started the WD in autumn 2005. But they change really fast – often within weeks. Before Christmas 2007, an 6/1 Cylce – so only one High Carb day- was perfect. My hard training schedule in the following weeks in Spring 2008 and the amount of hard drills showed at the last kinesiology test: 2 High Carb Days and 5 Low Carb days per week are the best within the last weeks.

3,2% Body-Fat and Muscle gain with optimized Week-Cycle

These tests, in combination with Oris personal instructions and plans for me, make it possible, to get the best effect out of every training period. Right now, I usually have grains or Biological High fiber bread as Carb-Source, mixed with veggies and protein. The other three days I have Low Carb-Dinner with lots of nuts, good Protein and lots of Veggies (they are there every day). I think these were the main reasons, why I reached 3,2% Body-Fat (my lowest personal record) times in the last months. I didn’t lost weight, so at the same time, I was able to build up some lean muscle mass!

6 Pounds lean gain – 4 Pounds within 4 weeks in May / June 2008!

Update June 2008: Within the last months it even get better. I gained about 6 pounds of pure muscle mass and the last 14 weeks and my Bodyfat is still low (I kept around 5%). The first 2 Pounds were the hardest. I took me 2 ½ months and I had to elevate my daily calorie intake to nearly 3.500 (consider my bodyweight of 55kg / 120 pounds). Ori told me, in the Coachings, a lot about his own experiences and the experiences of his other Elite-Athletes, in gaining and sustaining muscles, which was really a great help. Also how ancestry Warriors get as muscular AND athletic light as possible and how wrong many Bodybuilders think about this subject. I learned many things, I already had vague ideas, but now, I was sure, having the scientific truth behind. An the solution: Another, special designed strategy by Ori and hard training. Special specific designed climbing training on the wall – the GYM was only 2 times a week on my schedule (vs. Climbing about 7-8 times per week) – made the biggest, fastest, and for my sports most valuable gains came true: 4 lean pounds in 4 weeks! No overtraining and guess what? I feel GREAT in the wall – powerful and energetic as never before!!!! More energy and "spirit" for a great new international season 2008! I am also looking forward to join Oris new Elite Warrior Team! S U P E R - GREAT!

Ori often called me a “Mountainlion”, because these cats of prey are very lean and muscular. I think, as you see in the photos in this article, this is no overstatement ;-) I am proud of my body – thank you Ori!

Personal consulting with Ori Hofmekler via telephone makes it perfect!

The personal Consultings again and again offers me so many things to improve. Every phone call is for me a great chance to get first class knowledge from the very first hand. What makes Ori different from other “Diet-Coaches”? All my trainers in my team have one thing in common: They life for sports and healthy being. And so Ori does. To write and talk, is one thing, but to stay in touch and train with athletes and special forces several hours, even he is 56 years old, proves his knowledge!

Personal Consulting for professionals – The Conclusion is clear …

For me the conclusion as a professional athlete is absolutely clear: If you want 100% of your body and mind power, also keep improving your Diet! I can tell you: There are often the “peanuts beside”, they really count in the long run and also leaded me right to the next levels. And what can be more valuable, than getting teached by the Warrior Diet Creator himself? Get the chance for you individual WD. It is an investment in your life to benefit from full capacity: Current performance and staying lean, muscular and healthy, with 100% working body and brain.

Power-Quest: New book from Jürgen Reis in may 2008!

More about me you will also find in this article####make link to the old testimonial on your site ori###.

An exclusive Interview on our Internet Podcast you can find at www.Power-Quest.cc (Podcast Nr. 56). Direct Link: http://www.power-quest.cc/podcasts/PQ-podcast56.mp3

… and on this site of a “fit and old man warrior” ;-) link to ###http://www.cbass.com/JurgenReis.htm###, how Ori told him.

Here is my story.

Tired, lazy, and with uncontrollable hunger. That's how I would describe myself before reading the "The Warrior Diet". At 5 ft 9, and 230lbs I was much heavier than I had ever been before. Needless to say I just didn't feel like myself. So I began to search for an answer, not a diet but a lifestyle change. That's when I stumbled upon "The Warrior Diet". This book changed my life! The principles were easy to follow and the program just made sense. No counting calories, no diet foods, it was just what I had been looking for to shed the extra weight. I followed the warrior program and included regular exercise 30 minutes a day 2 times a week. I began to lose weight instantly. Within one month I had dropped 25lbs.

After my success on the diet I decided to then read Ori's other book the Anti-Estrogenic Diet. I was shocked by the information contained in the book. Why wasn't I aware of the dangerous chemicals all around me? The information in this book is esstianal to any man or women interested in having a lean healthy body. Once again it was a huge eye opener. I included Anti-Estrogenic foods and supplements from Defense Nutrition. This took my weight loss to a whole knew level. I began taking EstroX, and the Detox kit from the website. I also incorporated Warrior Essentials, and Warrior Rice Powder into my post recovery meals after exercise. The supplements gave me that edge that I needed to shred the estrogenic fat on my body.

The result within six months I had lost 70lbs! I feel great! I am never tired and feel like a real person again. I will never go back eating multiple meals a day or loading my body with estrogenic foods and chemicals again.

Ori is for real. He is the one person willing to "tell it how it is". If you are interested in losing weight or just improving your health read Ori's books before you start any program. You wont be disappointed.

Lean for Life,

Mark for Scranton, PA

mr.markmag@gmail.com