The best advice Ive come across is 'The Grapplers guide to sports nutrition'. Tells you everything you need to know about diet content and safe weight cutting. Very well put together and easy to understand.... as you can tell I rate it very highly!
The best advice Ive come across is 'The Grapplers guide to sports nutrition'. Tells you everything you need to know about diet content and safe weight cutting. Very well put together and easy to understand.... as you can tell I rate it very highly!
My understanding of that is before noon? Surely I'm wrong?Meal 5 ;*** BEFORE PM *** Lean Protein Source [ tuna, turkey, salmon etc ] Steamed veg. sometimes take on carbs depending on how i feel or what's to come training wise.
it is meant to say before 6 PM.
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interesting thread. so any fighters that aren't dieting for an upcoming fight, just training 'normally' so to speak, what would you be eating and when?
i find it hard to do the 'little and often' type diet, although i do feel reassured because my current diet isn't too disimilar to mr goddard's!
excellent book!! Although I think we(hard-training athletes) do need a little bit more carbs than the amount that Berardi advocates. But I guess it also depends on your individual metabolism.Originally Posted by Badnews
Cheers Marc, all the info helps, i try to eat clean but i like my food
at the minute im eating:
2 wholemeal toast with Flora Light
Chicken / Tuna with Pasta or spuds or 2 chicken sandwiches
then my tea of chicken / fish and veg and spuds
both Dinner and tea are quite large portions, would you cut down the amounts and eat more?
any other suggestions to porridge? as it makes me gag.
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Good post. I think in general most poeple over complicate things with too many numbers and precise amounts. It is difficult to predict exactly how an individual is going to respond to any given diet and therefore ideally a diet should be adaptable to how you're feeling at specific time. I follow 3 simple rules: 1. Eat less energy than you expend, but do not starve yourself. 2. Time your specific nutrient (e.g. carbs and protein) and energy intake correctly around your training scedule. 3. Allow yourself to cheat.Hi Widge, i think that i am entitled to answer this one currently ! so may as well start the ball rolling.
At new year [ dec 07 ] i was walking around at 116kg.....New York, Christmas and time off for broken nose does that to you.....
Originaly scheduled to fight Sinead "Lovstadt" O'connor in March and all was going well, then fucked my knee up, felt sorry for myself and ate for attenti...er i mean comfort
Then fight for Cage Rage was signed so it was all back to work, Currently and for many weeks i have been eating clean and sensible, something like the following.
Meal 1 ; The biggest meal of the day by far. Sachet of [ plain ] porridge oats , scoop [ or two ] of whey [ v low carb ] and skimmed milk, banana, two small dry pancakes OR some wholewheat toast and my coffee, cant survive without my coffee
Meal 2 ; Snack on fruit and wholegrain snack [ carb source ]
Meal 3 ; Lean Protein Source [ tuna, turkey, salmon etc ] and Carb Source [ rice, wholemeal bread etc ]
Meal 4 ; snack on fruit , nuts.
Meal 5 ;*** BEFORE PM *** Lean Protein Source [ tuna, turkey, salmon etc ] Steamed veg. sometimes take on carbs depending on how i feel or what's to come training wise.
Meal 6 ; snack on some fruit, or something sweet like sorbet.
Before bed i have my green tea and my aminos. punctuated with around 3-4 litres water a day. my weakness is fizzy pop, i know but i am a big kid, its always sugar free though.
Cheating is essential for two reasons, firstly to stop you going round the bend with boredom and cravings and secondly to shock the body into not knowing whats coming next, if i want a choc bar i have it, same for crisps or bit of chinese etc but even then its a more sensible choice and liberal helping....sometimes
the result currently is that i am waking up and walking around at 100kg, all the way from 116 !!! this is from eating sensible and hard training no extreme measures at all just scrafices. i have two weeks before my fight and i am well ahead of target weight, i could cut from more than 100 but i am not going to i will just carry on and probably be cutting from 97-98 max.
i am fitter faster than i have ever been and feel fantastic [ as well as look it]
hope that gives an insight.
Only thing I would say is probably could do with some more veg.
you can get some pretty nice granola, quaker do some and it's basically rolled oats that are cooked, a bit like clusters. they're a dream with the strawberries and that in. quite high sugar content though when you buy the quaker ones.
i like my food alot.... i cut from 80kilos to 70 kilos usually in a short space of time i eat clean all week monday to friday then eat what the hell i like at the weekends when im dieting for a fight cut all crap from my diet and change my portions, but even when im up to 80k i still look lean and can see my abs.
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i only know 2 fighters that get fat between fights.
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