damn dude, thats some food intake and dedication to making it all. i don't take a pre workout shake. hmmm.. probably should do. also never used bcaa.

im not going for bulking up personally, just trying to eat healthy and cut body fat (especially around stomach).

im happy with my breakfast and lunch during the week. Breakfast at 5am is porridge with blueberries, honey and milled nuts mix. Also take a turmeric tablet, mega green tea tablet, cla tablet and wellmans general health tablet.
When i get to work, 2 x tangerines, 1 x banana, 1 x set of mixed nuts and a coffee. This is around 7.30am. By 10am I'll go to canteen and have 2 x poached eggs on toast. Lunch is a salad. Post gym i have a protein shake around 2pm.

When i get home, I'll have a bowl of cereal, a few seseme rivita with quorn chicken slices and a cup of tea (this needs to improve to something energy boosting as im knackered most of the evening).

Dinner is normally either chicken, salmon, tuna, eggs or lentils depending on what we cook.

Vere you got an tips for food or a supplement to booost energy levels for the evening? no caffeine as i need to be asleep by 10pm.

hylian_elf wrote:

BEAST!!!

I’m always soooooo hungry!!

hylian_elf wrote:

Do you still take Vitamin S?  

Also, Mrs?! Good stuff. I remember you broke up with someone a while ago and it wasn’t great, nice to hear about a Mrs Cocha!

Haha, not at the moment but I will do later in the year! Thanks dude, well remembered! Yes, married now with an awesome job, dog, home, etc, just waiting for it all to fall apart!!

Dinostar77 wrote:

damn dude, thats some food intake and dedication to making it all. i don't take a pre workout shake. hmmm.. probably should do. also never used bcaa.

im not going for bulking up personally, just trying to eat healthy and cut body fat (especially around stomach).

im happy with my breakfast and lunch during the week. Breakfast at 5am is porridge with blueberries, honey and milled nuts mix. Also take a turmeric tablet, mega green tea tablet, cla tablet and wellmans general health tablet.
When i get to work, 2 x tangerines, 1 x banana, 1 x set of mixed nuts and a coffee. This is around 7.30am. By 10am I'll go to canteen and have 2 x poached eggs on toast. Lunch is a salad. Post gym i have a protein shake around 2pm.

When i get home, I'll have a bowl of cereal, a few seseme rivita with quorn chicken slices and a cup of tea (this needs to improve to something energy boosting as im knackered most of the evening).

Dinner is normally either chicken, salmon, tuna, eggs or lentils depending on what we cook.

Vere you got an tips for food or a supplement to booost energy levels for the evening? no caffeine as i need to be asleep by 10pm.

That’s good Dino but that’s almost a cutting diet in terms of paucity. Your muscles are being really worked, not just by the gym, you will be exhausted!

You need to add some rice, potentially pasta to early afternoon in order to get those levels up. I’d suggest getting rid of the cereal as yes it’ll be DELICIOUS but it’s really wasted calories. Chuck in some rice and tuna or something? Half a mic bag and a funny?

Having a pre workout in terms of food or shake is vital for me, even if after a time a pre-workout shake is very likely a placebo to a point. I’d throw in something like pancakes and a pre workout, myprotein mypre 2.0 is great as there’s no lasting effects just a quick buzz and fade. The BCAA’s are great for during your workout to keep you stocked up and repairing, stimulate protein synthesis, and might do so to a greater extent than a normal protein on its own. BCAAs also increase synthesis of the cellular machinery responsible for carrying out the process of protein synthesis. I mix it with dilute whatever’s in the house, hopefully like, then chuck in some pro:long stuff Myprotein’s intra-exercise endurance formula which combines carbohydrates, protein and electrolytes, BOOM, awesome in a big massive water tank to carry around. Both cheap too so £25 or so every 2 months and I certainly notice the difference, that’s training 6x in a week too so loadsa the stuff.

Don’t think of eating just to grow, it’ll improvise your metabolism and so your energy, carbs aren’t the enemy! Little and often! That’s why I chuck it in one big container, if I’m not too hungry just a pieve of meat and a little rice and veg, if I’m starving HOWEVER MUCH I WANT AND DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES LATER!

hylian_elf wrote:

Married?! Recently? Thought you had gone quiet for a while! Many congrats!

Why thank you dude! Probably more the job keeping me quieter, Prison Officer now which is the best thing ever but man it’s lots of hours and taxing. Also moved to the Isle of Man!

I'm not even going to get into the food debate as I am absolutely sick of the 'trends' changing all the time. Just eat healthy and eat lots. Nuff said.

Skerret wrote:

Verecocha wrote:

Also moved to the Isle of Man!

Entirely appropriate I'd have thought.

But vela old m8, are those Beats I see adorning your rippling cranium? It won't do, need to up your game there.

Haha!

They are, but they’re exclusively for the gym and they get lots of knocking about so scared to spend good monies on some! They sit on charge in the car unless they’re on my sweaty cranium!

Sure you're not just a little bit scared?

Lads. Creatine. Talk to me. Is it really any good? If I'm training 3x per week will I see the effects of using creatine?

MattyJ wrote:

Lads. Creatine. Talk to me. Is it really any good? If I'm training 3x per week will I see the effects of using creatine?

Yes you will, will help with recovery and during your workouts. As hylian said see if it agrees with you. I find a coffee or an expresso shot before a workout gives me a boost. I take a protein shake and BCCA tablets for recovery.

Professional ootballers take it. Classic case is del piero who was given too much of the stuff, bulked up too much and lost his acceleration.

Just be careful with monohydrate creatine. You should be drinking a couple of litres of water a day with it. If you never taken it before you will definitely notice it on your first tour. I take it with BCAA's and Amino Acids for endurance and recovery.

I never did creatine but I'm thinking about it. I dehydrate like a mutha too

Oh and I never did the loading phase after the first time, Christ it was horrific. I just take one serving per day.

hylian_elf wrote:

God damn weather has scuppered my gym-going plans this weekend. Grrrr.

That sir, is an excuse. YOU scuppered going to the gym. I’m on ‘holiday’ in Plymouth and have been up at 06:00 Sat and Sun in an awesome Spit and sawdust gym SMASHING IT!

That’s better!! You had other things to do! And that sir, is fine! Gonna miss the gym down here, absolute sweat house with metal in!!!

Now. 

A good healthy and appropriate diet is essential at any stage of life.

Faaaaairly sure the metabolism thing was debunked and it's a hit your daily macros kinda deal with maybe some thought to timing (prove me wrong Vere), but if you're eating lots it's easier to do more meals. If you eat like Vere anyway. If you eat like me, 2 is plenty. Elm, we know nuff'm