Many people are heavy advocates of their training methods, for obvious reasons. I personally think it’s great to be passionate about what you do and more people need to be. However, the mentality that one specific training method, dieting technique, etc., is the end all, best of the best method, is completely false. Paleo dieters, intermittent fasting followers, carb cycling believers, and so on, NONE of them are the BEST solution. The reason being is that the human body represents so many different physiological situations there is no one method that can match them all! This can be applied to training as well to a degree. A popular author recently wrote about I.F. and the fact that many new followers are claiming it’s the true way to get lean. He followed up with saying, “if it works that’s fine, but people have been getting ripped and conditioned on eating every 2-3 hours for decades.” He drives home my point- one specific method is not the final answer. 

My advice, and I preach this when I work with people, is to make use of some trial and error. It truly is the smartest, fastest, most effective way to learn your body. Learn what YOUR body responds to and make use of it. Research and methods might be proven in one certain situation but it still doesn’t mean it will work for you.