[quote]JJSchmidt wrote:
Interesting Vince, interesting. How do you find (heavy) lifting without food? and when you say; 1pm eat - 9pm stop eating, do you mean one meal at 1 and another at 9? OR you eat shit loads between the hours of 1 and 9? Just curious.[/quote]
Well I am lifting heavier and heavier but I am not benching 315 raw… I noticed working out fasted helped me to focus. I just take a cup of coffee + BCAA before training. Another thing I noticed is that after 20/30 min workout, I always had a stimulating, exciting feeling, and when training fasted, this feeling is stronger and last longer.
It would be interesting to see if the heavy lifters here have tried this and if they feel that they can lift heavy. For some reason, I do believe that at one point, you will need more carbs if you want strength / hypertrophy, before the workout.
For the meals, I basically start eating at 1 PM. I take a big meal (1500 to 2000 cals, 70 to 100g prots) then I eat a protein snack at something like 4 PM, with 50g protein + some carbs on training days, or some fats on rest days, and at evening, another meal (1000 to 1500 cals on training days, less on rest days, but always a lot of prots). Before closing the feeding window at 9 PM, I usually have a casein shake or some cottage cheese.
I noticed a very slight increase in weight and a very noticeable appearence of abs, very fastly.
I have done 3 bulks in my life :
- The very first one (6 months), I gained something like 60% muscle, 40% fat, and was quite happy
- The second one was the cleanest, and I gained 50% muscle, 50% fat
- The third one is very recent, it was not so clean and I gained 30% muscle 70% fat
I got ectomorph skeletal : my bones aren’t wide. My strength gains are slow, I am injury prone and I learnt two things in the past :
- I can gain fat around my waist and on upper legs, very fastly, despite was I believed when kid
- My gains will be slow
Now, I am not jacked. I plan to be, but I cannot stand having a huge round belly when I work out 3 to 4 times a week. And I cannot eat 6 clean meals a day because I work 50 hours a week.
The only thing I don’t like about leangains is that a lot of guys in the report just want that Tyler Durden style. That’s not my plan. But I will stick to it for some weeks and see what happens.