mikeshafer
10-04-2007, 05:22 PM
Hey folks,
I'm in week five of the program at www.iwantsixpackabs.com. My friend is doing the workout with me but is following its diet, which consists of a lot of raw veggies and fruits but also some lean protein meat (chicken, top sirloin) and some brown rice. I've been contemplating shifting to the more paleolithic diet that would include some cooked foods (grilled chicken, 5 egg-white omelettes), but I'm really trying to maintain the raw vegan diet to prove that it's possible to gain muscle on only raw fruits & veggies.
My typical diet is right now:
(morning: workout, 8 AM-9 AM)
9:15 AM: 1 apple on the walk to work
9:30/10: if weightlifting this morning, green smoothie with raw hemp protein powder, spinach, 3 bananas, water, strawberriers, raw cacao nibs
12/1: if possible, salad with avocado, tomato, cucumber -- whatever I can get
3/4: green smoothie
6/7: apple, orange, banana -- some light fruit
My workout routines haven't been insanely intense recently so I can't feel the muscle gain as well, but I can sense I am making some growth. Still I want to maximize my nutrition to ensure I can put on muscle.
Then there's the competing hypothesis that we all don't really need 3000 calories per day to put on muscle. I think that idea was made by a really skinny guy who wanted to bulk up. But for some of us more normal guys who can put on muscle without eating that much, there might be another way. Apparently the guys who made the movie 300 had "just enough calories to survive" doing their paleolithic diet. So who knows???
I guess my question is for all the bodybuilders out there: what's your raw diet like during a typical raw day?
I'm in week five of the program at www.iwantsixpackabs.com. My friend is doing the workout with me but is following its diet, which consists of a lot of raw veggies and fruits but also some lean protein meat (chicken, top sirloin) and some brown rice. I've been contemplating shifting to the more paleolithic diet that would include some cooked foods (grilled chicken, 5 egg-white omelettes), but I'm really trying to maintain the raw vegan diet to prove that it's possible to gain muscle on only raw fruits & veggies.
My typical diet is right now:
(morning: workout, 8 AM-9 AM)
9:15 AM: 1 apple on the walk to work
9:30/10: if weightlifting this morning, green smoothie with raw hemp protein powder, spinach, 3 bananas, water, strawberriers, raw cacao nibs
12/1: if possible, salad with avocado, tomato, cucumber -- whatever I can get
3/4: green smoothie
6/7: apple, orange, banana -- some light fruit
My workout routines haven't been insanely intense recently so I can't feel the muscle gain as well, but I can sense I am making some growth. Still I want to maximize my nutrition to ensure I can put on muscle.
Then there's the competing hypothesis that we all don't really need 3000 calories per day to put on muscle. I think that idea was made by a really skinny guy who wanted to bulk up. But for some of us more normal guys who can put on muscle without eating that much, there might be another way. Apparently the guys who made the movie 300 had "just enough calories to survive" doing their paleolithic diet. So who knows???
I guess my question is for all the bodybuilders out there: what's your raw diet like during a typical raw day?