bulk status update.
currently I am at 195 lbs, I am eating 5,000 calories a day. I work 6 days a week, 10-12 hours a day of hard labor. I burn up to 6500 calories a day on a good day, this usually means I just don’t have enough time or energy to eat when I get home, so for the past week, I’ve actually been CUTTING at 5,000 calories. I started drinking 1% milkfat instead of nonfat to get a few extra in, as well as having 4 bottles of orange juice throughout the workday. I also have started eating 2 bowls of cereal in the morning instead of just 1.
The trick is to get in most of your calories during the day, while you are working. The hard part is finding the time to get that food in. there are 24 hours in a day, but you are usually only awake for 16. So, 6500 calories, add 500 for bulking = 7000.
7,000 calories over 16 hours is 437 calories an hour… are you kidding me? How the hell do some of the guys I work with have huge pot bellies then?
Anyways.. they have to be taken in large part, breakfast, and you can eat during the drive to work too. Liquid form of calories would be the quickest, as you can drink them down during a break at work.
Okay so my status.. I haven’t gained any weight in the past couple weeks, the mirror is telling me that my triceps are gaining some little size as well as my traps. I’m actually going backwards until I get my diet spot on, and find more energy/time to lift. I did get in a couple lift sessions, but I ended up tired as hell the next day, and they weren’t very productive without a good diet.
So, I’ll nail down my nutrition first before anything else.
October 27, 2009 at 6:29 am
so eating most the calories during the afternoon (day) is better than eating towards evening? that’s makes sense but why? does the metabolism slow down by that time?