The Roadman Cycling Podcast 5 Tips To Speed Up Your Metabolism With Expert Angelo Poli
Dec 30, 2025
Angelo Poli, a metabolic expert and coach, shares insights on overcoming weight-loss plateaus faced by athletes. He explains adaptive thermogenesis and why excessive dieting backfires, leading to rebound weight gain. Poli debunks myths about calories and argues that strategic calorie increases can enhance performance. He emphasizes the importance of timing and gradual intake adjustments for sustainable weight management, and how understanding metabolism can empower athletes to break through barriers.
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Metabolism Protects You From Starvation
- The body adapts to preserve life, so prolonged calorie restriction triggers metabolic adaptation that stalls weight loss.
- Understanding adaptive thermogenesis explains why eating less eventually stops working and causes frustrating plateaus.
Survival Beats Calculations
- Survival mechanics can override typical predictors like activity, gender, and muscle mass when intake is very low.
- Two people on the same low calories will reach different homeostatic weights as the metabolism re-tunes to preserve life.
Crash Diets Cause Rebound Gains
- Extreme dieting produces large metabolic drift and often leads to rebound weight regain, as seen on shows like The Biggest Loser.
- This demonstrates why aggressive calorie cuts without metabolic reconditioning fail long-term.