Here it goes, at the basic level.
Palumbo diet - Low carb, 1 "cheat" meal a week.
CKD - This is a style of dieting and not a set diet, it infers and assumes a period of low carbing followed by a period of carbing up. IE, 5 low carb days 2 high carb days. First day can be all high GL carbs, second day low GL and shifting into low carb. Or it can be a free for all with careful minding on watching fat.
AD: You get around 60 percent fat and around 40 percent protein. You do 12 low carb days when you start the diet and then two carb up days. From that point on it follows a 5-2 low carb to high carb schedule, like the CKD style diets. Carb levels are also suggested to be played with, increasing them until you feel stable then decreasing them to find what level works best for you. It also has supplements that are suggested for use but it's not very important to use them.
UDv2.0: This particular diet uses up to around 50 carbs a day and has a different specific set of instructions on how to exercise and when to carb load.
Scivation diet: low carb, 1 carb meal every 18th meal. Suggest use of supplements and certain meal combinations for optimal performance.
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CKD is one of three "trees" of ketogenic dieting.
CKD: Cyclic ketogenic dieting, like I mentioned before infers a period of low carbing around 20-30 carbs a day and a period of high carbohydrate intake.
TKD: Targeted ketogenic dieting, this type of diet uses a certain amount of carbs and centers it before and after workouts to keep muscle glycogen levels at a certain level. Does not usually utilize carb ups because of the carbs centered around training.
Ketogenic dieting, just going low carb, no carb ups. Not very efficient for bodybuilding purposes.
These are your three main trees of ketogenic dieting. All the diets I described above fall under CKD. They all use a carb load to raise muscle glycogen levels as well as promote a few more things.
So when it comes down to the palumbo diet vs the AD diet, I opt for the AD diet. The AD diet is probably better suited for people that know their body better, but it is easy to just walk into.
Just like in the other thread I posted my concerns about the palumbo diet was information that I felt was misleading or just incorrect.
AD Diet pros -
1. Easy to do
2. Carb loads give you a free for all card when you've trained correctly and dieted on point.
3. More open ended than the palumbo diet (I haven't gotten a great deal of information on the palumbo diet, most of the information I find is limited to a little section).
AD diet cons
1. Might be hard for people that don't know when to stop eating or who over eat fat on carb load days.
2. If you've never done a depletion workout or a carb load it can be a little hard.
Palumbo diet pros:
1. 1 carb up meal during the week means more overall time in ketosis, potentially more fat burning.
2. Less chance for overeating when you stick to that one cheat meal.
Palumbo diet cons:
1. I feel its too limiting.
2. I feel information presented as accurate is inaccurate as related to the diet.