Month: July 2020

Regardless of where you are, in america you’re never far from a walmart or a gas station.

People overthink nutrition.

A gallon of milk a day is really enough, though optionally just add whatever food alongside.

Anyone can down a half gallon at a time. Therefore you can get that gallon at once or in halves. Anywhere.

So stopping at a gas station twice a day, or buying a gallon before stopping for the night to drink that night and the next morning is a way to have relatively inexpensive on the go nutrition.

That’s all the nutrition you need.
Five bucks tops for the milk, a couple bucks optionally in supplementary food.

Logistically a cinch.

Sometimes junk food serves a purpose.

While a trip down walmart’s little debbies and hostess aisle usually means you find yourself in the land of beached whales, and may be on the path to the same circumstance,
if you don’t suck at life you won’t join their herd.

Visiting that aisle is a necessary evil, because there you find the best preworkout…honey buns.

Now I’m the guy who has a very low tolerance to stimulants.

I’ve taken a preworkout maybe twice at my buddy’s urging, and allowing his peer pressure to sway me once drank a bang energy drink.

Usually, if I really want to get hyped, and am willing to deal with the feeling of “I have to shit now” combined with frequent peeing I’ll mix a little instant coffee with cold water.

I have made “hyphy mud” on a few occasions, fancy with pepsi and inexpensive with generics, and feel if you need more than that you need to cold turkey stop taking stimulants.

When that’s the case you need to redevelop those burnt out sensors, as your tolerance is too high. A small amount of coffee should be enough.

A couple years ago, in this bad place mentally, I would go to the gym no earlier than 10pm, often lifting alone in the building at 2am.

That month or so saw me regularly doing a “preworkout”, I’d put a few ounces of milk in a shaker cup, and stop into a 24 hour place for a honey bun or two. Usually eating in the store’s lot, I’d have good energy within the half hour or so till I hit the gym floor.

Today (7/13/20) was a day where I didn’t think I’d go to the gym.

Not wanting junk food much anymore, I’d been craving honey buns for a day or two.

Thinking the day was off from the gym, I went to the store instead.

Among other things, I purchased some honey buns, then once home recalled how well they served me as a preworkout.

I poured about 4oz milk into a glass, ate one honey bun, and took the shot of milk.

I ended up having a great lift.
(On what was nearly an 18 hour fast, I had the aforementioned roughly 300 calories in me.)

Now sugar despite it’s bad rap, in the right times can be useful.

Sugar has a stimulating effect, that I find relatively level as opposed to caffeine.

Sugar does help with nutrient partitioning, bringing the nutrition where it needs to go.

Cheapo junk food sugar, in honey bun form, works for me as a preworkout. If there is too much sugar, I tend to blunt it with milk fat as I take it.

Of note ; gatorade can serve the same purpose as the honey bun, as easily utilized, fast acting energy. Honey buns get preference as gatorade can give me a slight cramping stomach ache when drank fasted before the gym. Gatorade shines as morning hydration in the heat if I wake up thirsty, and can still go back to sleep. I was doing that in Cali.

Sugar, despite all the bad shit written about it, is energy, easily utilized energy at that.

Give a honey bun or two, and maybe a few oz of milk a shot as a preworkout.

It works for me.

Persistence & Tenacity

“So man, I want to get a bit bigger. What foods should I eat?”

I tell him to make a habit of eating ground beef, to which he balks, instantaneously going “what about pulled pork”.

“Dude, if pulled pork is the meat you’ll eat the hell out of, then eat a bunch of pulled pork.”

The dude who recently thanked me, initially he balked at the idea of dairy, claiming lactose intolerance, but months later ran with my advice as a guideline, and it worked.

I’d told him to switch lean chicken for fattier beef, to make raw egg shakes, and to simplify cooking via such as a crock pot. Months later he took my advice, didn’t do it exact, but treating it as a guideline had been cooking beef & egg fried rice in big batches nightly, eating off it for dinner, breakfast, and lunch, then the next night cooking the next batch.

Bulking diets?

They don’t need to be perfect, or rigidly written, they just need to be useable.

A fatty protein source is your main ingredient, the exact source is irrelevant.

Initially for me it was drinking whole milk, and flabbergasting family as to how much of everything and anything I’d eat.

As I get more experience my primary is becoming ground beef, but if that gets too costly I’d readily switch to copious quantities of eggs, and go back to crock pots of chicken dark meat.

That one buddy it’s likely to be pulled pork.

One buddy of mine used frozen meatballs for his first hard bulk.

The dude who thanked me took my advice of beef and eggs with a carb, just in a different prep style than I do. I make cheeseburgers and raw egg shakes, he stir fries the combined ingredients.

As long as you get decent nutrition, and can eat a heck of a lot of it, it’s fair game as a bulking food.

Eating at an eastern european friend’s house as a child introduced me to kielbasa. I love that stuff, and possibly would choose it over beef.

I guarantee over in the former soviet block this conversation is being had in cyrillic, the bigger older dude being like “Igor you no like kielbasa? Then eat the cheap dark meat from chicken if that’s what you’ll eat.”

Somewhere in india an older kushti is going “then eat the garbanzo beans in flour form, and add sugar to your milk”.

It’s a universal thing. What you’re willing to do will be what works for you.

What you eat to bulk isn’t set in stone. Certain foods are advantageous, but as long as it’s somewhat nutritious and something you’ll eat in quantity/bulk for bulking it’s a go.

Persistence & Tenacity