Sorry, I posted the other one in console chat. Derp.
Anybody here into healthy eating? I've started working out recently to build up some muscle, and despite some good results, I'm thinking about dropping some science in the mix.
At the moment I'm looking at nutrition and maybe putting a bit more fruit in, maybe even some of those protein shakes. Does anybody have any experience with this stuff?
Is this like a drastic change for you, or have you been leaning towards eating a fairly healthy style for a while? If you want to build muscle you should look into some sort of shake/drink right after working out. If you are doing something like P90x the best way to build muscle is to keep up with the exercise and eat decent.
Do you drink Soda or eat unhealthy foods or did you at one time? I know some people notice results right after they change their diets and cut out soda.
my diet's never been too bad actually, I tend to avoid soda as a soft drink (only ocasionally as a mixer), and stick to water squash tea and beer. Always been fairly meat-centric, but not a great deal of junk food, and I have a fast metabolism.
Also, since we moved office, there's no canteen, so it's a choice between sandwiches and crisps, or bring something in, which I usually do - like a stew or something in tupperware I can nuke.
As for training, it's not particularly hectic. The schedule is
day 1) hammer curls, bicep curls, skull crushers, and what other arm exercise I feel like mixing in. usually 3 reps of each on high weight, as many as possible (around 10)
day 2) rest
day 3) dumbell flies, press-ups
day 4) rest
and repeat, along with a 3 minute abs exercise and leg exercises whenever. The rota above is just to try and avoid overtraining the same muscles.
So it's not like a massive gym session or whatever, and I'm still trying to figure out some fun cardio to do, but I'm concious that I might not be eating optimally.
If you think it's a good idea, I'll look into geting some of those protein shakes, but I think I might buy some bananas, veggies, yogurt and hummus tonight for protein snacks and see how that goes. I like those foods anyway so it can't hurt, but apparently I should be eating 3000 calories a day, and using my fag-packet maths, that's a huge amount of food. I read about one guy that eats a whole chicken EVERY DAY.
