Updates (diet, misc) 03
For those of you following along, hopefully at least one person, here are some updates. I know I posted my diet but it’s changing. After posting on a strongman forum and receiving feedback I decided to take the diet back to basics. Let me explain. When I was in high school I gained 19 lbs in one school year when I first started lifting. Of course some of this was because I had never lifted before. The other part was I ate everything in site whether I was hungry or not. That was pretty much all I knew at the time about getting big was eat eat eat. So I did, no protein shakes, no supplements, food…not even clean food..pizza, whatever.
I think it’s time to go back to that eat eat eat approach. This time my only guidelines will be to make sure I get enough protein in (I think I am around 300 grams a day), eat close to every 3 hours, and to keep it somewhat clean while piling in the calories. After all, I want to get into strongman and some fat gain is alright. My main concern before was that I had a recent hip injury which pretty much halted cardio. I didn’t want to eat like crazy and not be able to burn off any "excessive" fat. Now the hip is doing good so I am back in business.
So this is going to make the diet a little harder to post because it won’t be so robotic and scheduled. I started eating this way as of yesterday. Here is an example:
Meal 1 (upon wake up)- 1 scoop whey, 5g arginine, 5g glutamine, 5g BCAAs
Meal 2 - 3 whole eggs, 3 egg whites, oatmeal, mulitvitamin
Meal 3 - chicken breast, tony’s frozen pizza (all of it)
Meal 4 (Pre Workout) - 1 scoop whey, 5g arginine, 5g glutamine, 5g BCAAs, apple
Meal 5 (Post Workout) - 3 scoops whey, 5g arginine, 5g glutamine, 5g BCAAs, 20oz gatorade, 3 slices white bread
Meal 6 - chicken breast, brown rice, mulitvitamin
Meal 7 - 2 scoops casein w/milk, peanut butter and honey sandwich on whole wheat
Meal 8 - ZMA
As far as supplements go, I am using up what I have and then cutting down to a multivitamin twice a day, glutamine for recovery, and omega’s for the healthy fats…of course protein shakes. I do not think the arginine or BCAAs are doing anything for me. I am actually going to use them more frequently just to get rid of them so I will have them w/ my wake up shake, pre and post shakes, and before bed shake.
I am in the process of posting my workouts and my actual workout scheme. I will also post in a blog the most helpful replies I have received from others.
