RedPill
Master Don Juan
For the last year now I've taken working out seriously. Gained 20 lbs of muscle and lowered bodyfat a bit. I've still got a ton left to gain, but I am in shape, and look athletic now. During the past year I've been busy as hell and on the road a lot at times starting my business. Going over the carefully kept data on my progress from the past year, one pattern stands out among all the rest:
During periods where I ate like a (carnivorous) horse, I grew like a weed. For those periods where my eating sucked because I was busy or on the road a lot, my progress stagnated. Sometimes, I would eat heavy but not very cleanly, and I never gained any fat. Body fat has never been an issue.
Hmm... let's think about this. Gains only when I eat like a champ...getting fat never an issue.
Perhaps I need to always eat really heavy - no excuses!
My business is starting to get profitable. But I'm still going to be very busy for a long time to come. In a nutshell, my plan to keep up the eating is to always have access to protein and other foods.
The first thing I did was purchase a thermo-electric cooler/heater for my car. It's like a mini-fridge, and it can also heat up frozen food in the winter, no matter where I'm at. Secondly, I have a shaker bottle in every one of my primary locations - office, home, the car, so there's never an excuse not to be able to drink some whey. In the car, I keep gallons of water in the trunk, both for mixing drinks and regular hydration.
Another strategy employed is I took my "backup" cans of tuna out of the car and office, so that I am forced to always prepare the food in advance, or I suffer by not getting to eat. It removes the temptation to slack and not prepare meals.
The reason I posted this thread was two-fold - 1) to let people know how my own experience has shown me that eating is the difference-maker, much more so than the workouts; 2) to ask if you guys have any other tactics you'd recommend for making heavy eating pragmatic when you are frequently busy.
Thanks for any suggestions.
During periods where I ate like a (carnivorous) horse, I grew like a weed. For those periods where my eating sucked because I was busy or on the road a lot, my progress stagnated. Sometimes, I would eat heavy but not very cleanly, and I never gained any fat. Body fat has never been an issue.
Hmm... let's think about this. Gains only when I eat like a champ...getting fat never an issue.
Perhaps I need to always eat really heavy - no excuses!
My business is starting to get profitable. But I'm still going to be very busy for a long time to come. In a nutshell, my plan to keep up the eating is to always have access to protein and other foods.
The first thing I did was purchase a thermo-electric cooler/heater for my car. It's like a mini-fridge, and it can also heat up frozen food in the winter, no matter where I'm at. Secondly, I have a shaker bottle in every one of my primary locations - office, home, the car, so there's never an excuse not to be able to drink some whey. In the car, I keep gallons of water in the trunk, both for mixing drinks and regular hydration.
Another strategy employed is I took my "backup" cans of tuna out of the car and office, so that I am forced to always prepare the food in advance, or I suffer by not getting to eat. It removes the temptation to slack and not prepare meals.
The reason I posted this thread was two-fold - 1) to let people know how my own experience has shown me that eating is the difference-maker, much more so than the workouts; 2) to ask if you guys have any other tactics you'd recommend for making heavy eating pragmatic when you are frequently busy.
Thanks for any suggestions.
