bad food and strength

[Mickey Knox]

Up until last week I was eating pretty clean, with a cheat meal once a week. But for the past week I have been eating junk food, like pizza and calzones etc. (I guess I just had to fulfill my cravings) But the weird thing is, my strength has gone up. How is this possible? Shouldn't it have went down with me eating junk food?

Keep in mind that my strength has been pretty steady for the past month up until this point.

 

[bignate73]

extra calories. especially complex carbs.

 

[spatts]

You threw more wood on the fire and the fire got bigger.

 

[b fold the truth]

Just make sure that you are getting enough prot and carbs...

I eat a lot of junk...but I also eat a lot of clean foods too.

B True

 

[Hannibal]

Probably storing more water...and that aids in strength gains.

 

[vinylgroover]

My ex training partner used to live on a diet of Mars bars and coke and he was strong as all F**k and grew like a weed. Kinda makes a mockery of the overstated value of nutrition to bodybuilding. Sure, it's important, but i think it has been overplayed for too long now.

When it's all said and done, what you do in the gym will make you or break you in my opinion.

 

[Vortexx]

Juynk days and even an occaisonal junk week is beneficial, as long as you do it infrequent, it will boost your hormone production, however, if you do it often or for too prolonged time, you risk insuline insensitivety and sugars will store as fat and hormone production will decline.

I guess you "mars" friend has a superior insuline regulation, but even he can fell prey to insuline resistance some day, so I wouldn't follow him , I would say, have a junk week every 6 weeks (when you also change to a new routine) Combined these will give your body enough stimuli to store most junk as muscle glycogen.

 

[Mr. Teen Illinois]

why do people tihnk pizza is so bad? Is it the saturated fat or what? I made pizza a big part of my diet, eating one every other day. Not only did my strangth go up but i got bigger faster and didn't get any excess fat. Go to ronniecolman.com and the first thing you'll see is a huge picture with him eating a big piece of pizza. Pizza's great and anyone wantin to add strength and mass should be eating it.

 

[b fold the truth]

I love pizza!!!!

B True

 

[endpoint]

pizza....breakfast of champions.

Im trying to get a sponsership from the local pizza shop.
If i sell out maybe kentucky fried chicken...but i am afraid the hormones in the chickens will show up in the drug tests

I will always include a pizza on saturday after my deadlift/squat training.

 

[brooklynboy]

Really wierd; Last time I was trying to diet I was eating a strict diet of the same foods and exactly the same caloires every day. One weekend I said fuck it I wanted real food. I eat everything possible starting on thursday and did not stop till late sunday night. I mean pizza, twinkies, hohos, beer, pretzles,salted peanuts. I even eat taco bell three time on sunday(it is right around the corner from my house) Well on monday morning I went to the scale. I really did not want to get on but I did. the results where I lost 5 POUNDS. I am just curious WHAT THE FUCK?
Any ideas? I workouts during the weeekend where just like anyother day. I eat a ton more calories then I should have and drop 5 pounds this I dont understand.

 

[makedah]

why do people tihnk pizza is so bad? Is it the saturated fat or what? I made pizza a big part of my diet, eating one every other day. Not only did my strangth go up but i got bigger faster and didn't get any excess fat. Go to ronniecolman.com and the first thing you'll see is a huge picture with him eating a big piece of pizza. Pizza's great and anyone wantin to add strength and mass should be eating it.

I think people think pizza is bad because:

saturated fat and cholesterol in cheese and meat toppings
high sodium in cheese, sauce, meat toppings
white flour in crust

all of this is compounded by the fact that pizzas have multiple servings (aside from 'personal pans'), which encourages people to eat more than they might otherwise. The whole 'supersize' phenomenon.

I like pizza, too! But it can be hard on folks' bodies for a lot of reasons. Personally, it makes my acid reflux act up. OUCH!

 

[vtec96]

I had this same exact question in another thread, and from what i heard, this really seems to be the case!!

Now i will be the first to admit that I have been eating "healthy" and clean for years, and beleive it is the best way generally to go. Im into strength training only (PL) so not too concerned with body fat and all the BB stuff.
But HOW can this "junk food, fast food", with all the years of saying its "bad" for you, make you Stronger and in some cases not even gain much weight??

I prob could eat pizza everyday and not gain much weight anyways since i'm pretty thin now and have a fast metabolizm, but was always concerned that it was bad and would prob make me weaker or fatter or whatever???

But my main question is Can anyone try to reason why these junk foods seem to make people stronger? This is not the first time I have heard this? Also, from the poeple I heard this from, it did not really seem to be the cal's since they were getting the same from their prev meals! I thought this was the "simple" answer to all of this but they were getting plenty of fat too? Anyone ....

 

[b fold the truth]

I just know that I am stronger when I eat fatty foods...and foods with a lot of carbs. Overeating will make me stronger...for sure.

B True

 

[benchmonster]

To be strong like bull. . . eat bull, or cow, or pig. Nutrition is so highly overrated for strength sports it is unreal. The GNC's and MetRx's of the world have brainwashed people for years in an effort to make a shitload of money, which they have been very successful doing just that.

Other than to control bodyweight for weight classes, I eat whatever is in front of me. I eat a lot, and I eat often, because I am hungry often. Today for example, I had a glass of milk and pop tarts for breakfast, a plate of spaghetti with ground hamburger at 11:00, a piece of apple pie at 2:30, a bag of chex mix on the drive home at 5:30, 4 beef soft tacos for dinner, and I will have a bowl of frosted mini wheats before I go to bed. That is a bit more junk food and less protein than usual, but I feel great. Tommorrow, I will eat whatever presents itself. I think if I ate chicken breasts and rice cakes and salad all the time, I would waste away down to the long forgotten land of the sub 200's.

Eat what you want. If you want to get bigger, eat more, if you want to get smaller, eat less. It is not much more complicated than that.

B.

 

[I'D RATHER BE DEADLIFTING]

I agree with what most of these guys are saying.

I don't think it is the junk food that is making them strong, it is the extra cals. Who wants to eat twice as many chicken breasts and bowls of plain oats when you can eat junk that is way more calorie-dense?? If bodyfat is not your main concern, I'd say get your protein and some good stuff, but don't be afraid to eat something if you want it. I'd shoot myself if I had to be super-strict about everything I ate.

 

[b fold the truth]

To be strong like bull. . . eat bull, or cow, or pig. Nutrition is so highly overrated for strength sports it is unreal. The GNC's and MetRx's of the world have brainwashed people for years in an effort to make a shitload of money, which they have been very successful doing just that.

Other than to control bodyweight for weight classes, I eat whatever is in front of me. I eat a lot, and I eat often, because I am hungry often. Today for example, I had a glass of milk and pop tarts for breakfast, a plate of spaghetti with ground hamburger at 11:00, a piece of apple pie at 2:30, a bag of chex mix on the drive home at 5:30, 4 beef soft tacos for dinner, and I will have a bowl of frosted mini wheats before I go to bed. That is a bit more junk food and less protein than usual, but I feel great. Tommorrow, I will eat whatever presents itself. I think if I ate chicken breasts and rice cakes and salad all the time, I would waste away down to the long forgotten land of the sub 200's.

Eat what you want. If you want to get bigger, eat more, if you want to get smaller, eat less. It is not much more complicated than that.

B.

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B True

 

[epimetheus]

I constantly read that insulin is anabolic. Or that some BBers take insulin to aid in muscle growth.

Perhaps eating junk food, like candy bars and crap give good insulin spikes and thus cause better strength gains?

 

[Grizzly]

Really wierd; Last time I was trying to diet I was eating a strict diet of the same foods and exactly the same caloires every day. One weekend I said fuck it I wanted real food. I eat everything possible starting on thursday and did not stop till late sunday night. I mean pizza, twinkies, hohos, beer, pretzles,salted peanuts. I even eat taco bell three time on sunday(it is right around the corner from my house) Well on monday morning I went to the scale. I really did not want to get on but I did. the results where I lost 5 POUNDS. I am just curious WHAT THE FUCK?
Any ideas? I workouts during the weeekend where just like anyother day. I eat a ton more calories then I should have and drop 5 pounds this I dont understand.

I did the same thing over spring break. I didn't train for the entire week and I ate everything in sight. Most notably I ate 1/2 gallon of ice cream everyday plus I drank like a fish. At the end of the week I was down 7 pounds.

 

[bigpimpin25]

bump .....interesting.......

 

[Klown]

Yeah, it's a simple equation. Calories in vs calories out.

Your internal functions might thank you for eating clean, but as far as lifting heavy things go..... surplus amounts of mcdonalds is better then a deficit of super duper squeaky clean vitamin x food.