What is a Body Opus, Cyclical Ketogenic Diet (CKD) or TKD?
CKD refers to a general dietary approach which alternates periods of standard ketogenic eating (generally 5-6 days) with short periods of high carbohydrate intake (12-48 hours). The most well known CKD’s are “BodyOpus” created by Dan Duchaine and “The Anabolic Diet. The CKD is primarily directed towards athletes and bodybuilders’ who due to their intensive physical needs will need to refill muscle glycogen stores for the next week’s training. TKD refers to a variation of the CKD where muscle glycogen refill occurs immediately before or after exercise with a limited amount of carbs (usually dextrose) is ingested. The amount of post-workout grams is determined by the individual through experimenting to see at what level they would be kicked out of ketosis. A very good place to get an overview of these plans is at: http://www.solid.
