Anabolic Food

I remember you were having those problems a few months back. Was the tainted leucine the culprit?

I might buy some leucine and experiment with during and between meal supplementation. What would you think the upper limit of supplementation to be?

SL: thing is I tried the leucine dosing and it totally ED me up. Recovery deteriorated and I got chronic pins and needles within a month and couldn't really exercise.

Objectively, I have to believe the batch was contaminated or this was the result of some other product, but it ED me up so bad that I'm never going to try it again.

However, I know Layne Norton LOVES leucine, and there are a fair few studies on it being the key anabolic trigger. It's not really that expensive to dose leucine as Layne Norton prescribes either.

Leucine itself is quite insulingenic, yet its frequently recommended during cutting. I personally think this (as well as many other things) suggest our understand of insulin and fat burning is less complete that we think.

sup guys? I'm in europe right now so I wont be online much for the next couple weeks, but I think a group like this is awesome. Always more to know about diet.

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I just went through the first study. Very cool read.

Basically 3-5g of Leucine with a meal will maximize protein synthesis. Also you could dose 3-5g of Leucine between meals when the time between meals is greater than 4 hours and maintain protein synthesis.

This goes a long with what a supplement company is claiming. They do sale a high quality Leucine supplement. This study has no affiliation with said company.

To get a discussion going (note, I'm not advocating any potential view, just though it would be interested to note research often challenges orthodoxy):

consider the issue of meal timing:
(1) http://www.slideshare.net/biolayne/o...nd-muscle-mass

Provides evidence that consuming protein too often (eg every 3 hours) may make you protein refractory

(2) links to studies showing regular eating does not increase metabolism: (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodybuilding under meals and http://www.alanaragon.com/an-objecti...t-fasting.html)

(3) when I get home later I will bring up some studies basically debunking the myth that eating every 3 hours is necessary to avoid catabolism, although there are some links in this to Alan's article above, but I'm particularly interested in a study on pizza which even showed the carbs were still being digested 5 hours later.

Todays Menu

Breakfast 43g PRO, 60g CHO, 16g FAT

2 Omega Three eggs, 1 cup egg whites scrambled
2 packs of Quaker Weight Smart Oats

Brunch 40g PRO, 48g CHO, 2g FAT

40g Whey iso/Micellar Casein
40g oat Starch
5g SF Metamucil

Lunch 48g PRO, 51g CHO, 6g FAT

6oz Chicken Cutlets
7oz Sweet Tater
14oz Green Beans

Post-Lunch 48g PRO, 51g CHO, 6g FAT

Same as lunch

Dinner 43g PRO, 40g CHO, 3g FAT

1 can White Tuna
4oz Brown Rice
3oz Peas

Pre-Bed 44g PRO, 11g CHO, 25g FAT

40g Whey Iso/Micellar Casein
5g SF Metamucel
1 tbsp ANPB
15g Fish Oil

Macro breakdown: 266g PRO, 261g CHO, 58g FAT
Total Kcal: 2630

Today was a low calorie day for me. I did 15 minutes of HIIT and 20 minutes of steady state cardio.

I can't stop looking at Preemo's avatar

What's cooking good lookings?

pre-workout
1/2 apple w/ANPB (1teaspoon)

I had a ty workout today-for some reason I couldn't concentrate.

Post-workout shake

30min later..2egg whites/1whole poached over spinach and jalapeno peppers.
-1cup oatmeal with blueberries


Lunch-Grilled chicken over spinach, tomatoes and jalapeno peppers. (a drizzle of olive oil and cottage cheese)
1 Yam


that's it for now

As soon as this settles I'm gonna jump on the spin bike, hopefully 45min-1hr

Im waiting for Iggy to say he was chased by a giant gun

sup homeskillet