Eating for England….

Posted by Leeb - 03/06/09 at 09:06:19 pm

Having been a “like yeah man, 3 times a week” gym bunny for about 2 years and thinking I had been doing pretty well, treadmill, pushups, pullups rah, rah, rah….it dawned on me that I have more or less been wasting my time as I probably have only trained to a large extent using exercises I like, i.e. the ones that don’t hurt anymore! And- as a result there arn’t any.

- So I got my self a personal trainer to try and remedy my situation - Jason Statham is where I want to be, Joe Pesci is whaere I am now

I hark back to my military days on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Friday mornings when Gabriel tries his best to kill me.  I have never sweated so much in recent history [well 10 years anyway] as during the last couple of weeks.

Gabriel has made it his mission to correct all my worsening body traits encouraged by my past 10 years of couch potatoe-ing and ill-beer swilling escapades. Right arm stronger than left- noooo problem Gabriel will find all the wasted, dwindling muscles in the left arm and murder them one-by-one. same goes for outward pointing feet [great for marching...but we don't do that anymore...], sloping right shoulder ['cos that's the one we carry stuff with right!...] and thus - lazy muscles targeted and destroyed, Sir! All to the resounding Portugese-accented cries of “awesome, come on, up, up, up, there!…”

I am loving it! as they say at McDonalds….or would if I were allowed to grace one! I shudder to think what my punishment would be…brings water to my eyes already.

Also, as part of the new routine, I have to eat. Eating has never been a problem for me, hungry = eating. Now I have to eat to strenghten and build my new muscles, trouble is the amounts at each sitting are astounding.

I feel as though I am eating for England so to speak, here’s a normal days eating:

first thing in the morning: 20g whey protein shake
200ml skim milk, flax seed oil tbl spoon, vitamin c, glucosamine

breakfast: 2eggs
1 wholemeal toast(brown bread)/ 60g dry oats to cook a porridge
peanut butter/nuts or chicken sandwich

lunch: big kumara(microwave 6-8 min), 200g tuna/ salmon
tomatos, onions, parsley
dessert: banana/ apple/ kiwi fruit

afternoon tea, pre-workout(30min-1h before): piece of fruit
20g protein
300ml milk
60g porridge/ 1 slice of brown bread w hummus
coffee

post workout: 30g whey protein, 600ml powerade

1h after post workout meal
dinner: miso soup, mesclun salad, capsicum, garlic, 200g chicken breast
mustard, chilli

before bed 50g cottage cheese

Phew!

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