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Griz1
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This seemed to work for me of late. Was wondering what folks might think of this.
Really put on a fair bit of LBM lately and I'm thinking that aside from attributing it to the 5X5 program, my diet obviously played a part. Here's what I did for a few months (stopped it lately cause it's just too much food to maintain all the time).
Weight day: Workout at noon.
Then for the next 24 waking hours (can't eat in my sleep) I ate EVERY 2 HOURS. Here's what I did.
Every two hours: 1.5 chicken breasts (or lean ham, or steak, etc.) with a handful of mashed sweet potatoes (or brown rice). At lunches and dinners I switched the sweet pot. for straight veggies and/ or salad. I ate 1 peice of fruit a day as well.
So, I ate at 1:00pm, 3:00pm, 5:00pm, 7:00pm, 9:00pm, large protein shake before bed. Sleep. Morning 7:30am, 9:30am, 10:30 (shorter period here cause workout was coming).
I am still so completely sick of chicken and sp that it's an unpleasant chore doing this of late.
For the following 24 hours, I tone it down and eat 5 or 6 meals as per usual (every 3 hours).
What I was/am trying to do is hit my muscles which have been shredded during workout with as much as I possibly can. I work out with weights 3 days a week very intensely(is that a word?), so that equals 3/7 days a week I'm just POUNDING my body with protien and the carbs to deliver that protien to my muscles.
It's coarse and very simplistic, but it really seemed to work. My thought is that by doing this for the 24hrs following the weights, then switching to a more normal pattern of 3 hrs and not so much food, that I haven't gained a whole lot of body fat to go with the gains. But I've loaded my body with the building blocks at the right time. Spatts used to say that you have to eat to accomodate what your are doing, or have done (or words to that effect). That is what I was trying to do here.
What's some opinions regarding this?
Really put on a fair bit of LBM lately and I'm thinking that aside from attributing it to the 5X5 program, my diet obviously played a part. Here's what I did for a few months (stopped it lately cause it's just too much food to maintain all the time).
Weight day: Workout at noon.
Then for the next 24 waking hours (can't eat in my sleep) I ate EVERY 2 HOURS. Here's what I did.
Every two hours: 1.5 chicken breasts (or lean ham, or steak, etc.) with a handful of mashed sweet potatoes (or brown rice). At lunches and dinners I switched the sweet pot. for straight veggies and/ or salad. I ate 1 peice of fruit a day as well.
So, I ate at 1:00pm, 3:00pm, 5:00pm, 7:00pm, 9:00pm, large protein shake before bed. Sleep. Morning 7:30am, 9:30am, 10:30 (shorter period here cause workout was coming).
I am still so completely sick of chicken and sp that it's an unpleasant chore doing this of late.
For the following 24 hours, I tone it down and eat 5 or 6 meals as per usual (every 3 hours).
What I was/am trying to do is hit my muscles which have been shredded during workout with as much as I possibly can. I work out with weights 3 days a week very intensely(is that a word?), so that equals 3/7 days a week I'm just POUNDING my body with protien and the carbs to deliver that protien to my muscles.
It's coarse and very simplistic, but it really seemed to work. My thought is that by doing this for the 24hrs following the weights, then switching to a more normal pattern of 3 hrs and not so much food, that I haven't gained a whole lot of body fat to go with the gains. But I've loaded my body with the building blocks at the right time. Spatts used to say that you have to eat to accomodate what your are doing, or have done (or words to that effect). That is what I was trying to do here.
What's some opinions regarding this?
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