If you hit 200g of protein a day, likely for anything shy of marching siberia in winter whilst wearing rags that’s more than plenty to feed your muscles.
To remain anabolic.
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Even 150g is probably plenty, though it’s not going to hurt to be the type who eats more meat.
Ribs being most preferable, but messier to cook or more expensive to buy.
It’s real easy to get to 150g.
A pound of chicken breast is 100 to 110g.
Six Eggs = 36g
Nine Eggs = 54g
A Dozen Eggs = 72g
So easily, and realistically you can cut up some chicken breast, pan fry it, crack some eggs over your now fully cooked chicken, fry that up (now together), pour a glass or two (or more) of milk, and hit all of your necessary nutrition in one meal of chicken, eggs, and milk.
Playing 1800s Farm Diet
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Now, maybe as a beginner it helps to have some pretty rigid and structured guidelines for eating and training, but do so long enough and it all mostly become minutia.
The part that matters is progress.
If you’re making progress it’s working.
You could put the pedal to the metal, but too it’s okay (and only recently have I started accepting this) to simply keep doing what I’m doing
SINCE IT’S WORKING!
Right now I want the scale to move downwards, a laissez faire cut (rather unstructured, not too many guidelines in effect) with a hands off approach to “I know my pullup reps will increase with dropped weight and continued kettlebell workouts”.
That’s it.
Now, what works for me is eating infrequently.
I just don’t like having to digest outside of the evening/night generally.
So one meal a day is a guideline, but if I’m still hungry my nutrition was already covered by the meal, and my calories are pretty low overall…I’ll have a snack or two if I instinctively feel it’d be better to eat.
And I’m not a snob about this.
As I type it’s a couple extra glasses of milk, a few cookies, and a pack of top ramen.
The calories aren’t wild, and there is now some more protein to add to the day’s count.
See, whenever I eat really, my go to is dairy.
There’s going to be some protein every time (rare exceptions) I take in calories as most every time I do is drinking a glass of milk or eating a little cheese (often with some honey roasted peanuts – these being the most affordable and always convenient nutritious thing to eat known to man).
Spend $2.50/lb, buy three to five jars, and throw one in your car, in your backpack, etc.
Might not be a particularly low calorie option, but it’s good enough nutrition – very low dollar cost and with perfect travel logistics.
At home lately I’ll just drink a couple glasses more milk, and have a pack of ramen.
THAT might not be the best source of protein, being wheat, and even still that’s another eight or ten grams to add to the day’s total.
In a way, in the strength game, the picky mouth starves, stagnates, doesn’t grow.
The not picky eater, the human garbage disposal, this type puts on muscle much faster, and as I’m now finding…
My lack of discernment has made cutting not terribly complicated.
I actually like chicken breast sans even salt and pepper, a little butter in the pan, the raw meat chopped into little pieces, then fried up on all sides to a nice golden brown.
Like that.
Boom. Delicious.
Crack the day’s eggs over that.
Cook two or three pounds of chicken (in batches) back to back, have a couple or a few days of meat ready to go.
The rest fills in around that pretty easily.
…..
Even if I never hit any of those barbell goals I had in the past…
I’m getting pretty strong on the kettlebells.
As I type there’s a nice, light soreness in my traps from doing a decent looking swing-snatch with double 32kgs.
With a little more violence of pull/extend I can make it a better rep, but what I did earlier…it would count (video up in about a week), and snatching double 32kgs seems to me that it’d be something to the kettlebell community.
And too I have double 40kgs. There’s no doubt in my eyes that I’ll get there, from here – eventually, over time.
That’s what’s cool about the kettlebells.
To a degree, just train with what you’ve got.
Occasionally try out a harder movement.
You may have it.
What’s the worst case?
You stick to c&p, add reps to ∞ with a moderate weight…something real real world useable via a handful of kettlebells used for…half hour a week.
Easy.
Just don’t stop at only the sig klein challenge.
Aim for more reps. Aim for heavier bells.
Aim for both. Mix the sig klein challenge with the grace wod, train their bastardized child…
30 reps clean and press with as heavy a pair of bells as you can (kb or db – either is fine).
Dang, now I just typed up the point of a talking “podcast” that’s not yet live.
Haha!
Persistence & Tenacity
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