Eating for Performance

[Nonerz]

I've got my first PL meet on April 24th and I've cleaned up my diet quite a bit. I'm looking to see what I can add/subtract with the specific goal of improving PERFORMANCE for my meet. I have A LOT of pics of my food/meals in my picture journal. Just click on the catagory "Food" to see only those pics if you want.

Here's the typical training day (mind you I teach kickboxing 3 x's a week in addition to my weight training.

6 AM - Breakfast
usually cereal [Ultra Flax or Honey Bunches of Oats w/Almonds (lately)]
w/soy milk
& flaxseed meal
sometimes fruit [ban/straw]
-or-
oatmeal
w/protein powder
soy milk

9:30 AM - AMSnack
English muffin
hard boiled egg
w/mustard [I'm loving the relish mustard lately...good and tangy]
coffee
w/ff hazelnut creamer (c'mon...I work in an office!)

**sometimes I eat an extra snack ~ 11:30 ish**
fruit w/natty almond butter/jello/protein pudding/protein bar

1 PM - Lunch
chicken/tofu [been doing a lot more tofu lately...usually in addition to chicken]
spinach/other greens
sometimes corn/rice
*I typically add this stuff to salads and other meals
-feta cheese
-avocado
-almonds
-red onions

or whole wheat pita's with chicken, sandwiches...lots of stuff I make

4 PM - PM Snack
English muffin
w/almond butter
& honey
or sometimes fruit/bar/drink

6:30 PM - TRAIN
7:30 PM - TEACH TKB

9 PM Peanut butter/banana shake w/extra protein (I know, but it's so good) * sometimes I skip this...depending how late it is and how famished I am feeling.

10/11 PM - Dinner
Omelletes w/good stuff in them (veggies, etc)
-or-
tacos
-or-
a million other ways to make chicken!

I like to have a sweet something too...like Eskimo Pie Ice Cream Bars...only about 120 calories...not bad!

Oh yeah, I've got this out of control addiction to Sushi as well...


To all the diet guru's out there...thanks for your feedback!

 

[Nonerz]

bump...

I am looking for foods to eat that will help me train harder, thus performing better. I'm less than 4 weeks out from my meet.

are you gonna make me beg?

<<drops to knees and pleads>>

pretty please?

 

[anthrax]

why don't you eat red meat ?

red meat = iron + creatine

 

[Nonerz]

why don't you eat red meat ?

red meat = iron + creatine

I do. I buy chicken by the bag (biggest one from Sam's Club) for the most part...not usually steak although I love the stuff!

 

[chewyxrage]

you rely on soy protein alot?


don't got much to say about that except eat more animal protein..........


but that's all relative to each person's beliefs so......


other than that though......it looks like you have a good diet set out for energy............


if you are specifically looking for more energy on the day of PL meet then I would tell you what everyone else would say.........eat lots of carbs..

good luck!

 

[chewyxrage]

I do. I buy chicken by the bag (biggest one from Sam's Club) for the most part...not usually steak although I love the stuff!

you ever try that barbecue chicken from sam's ? not too bad.........


that teryaki shit has like 16g sugar though bought that on accident once.......had to eat because of budget

 

[faller]

I think it looks good as-is! Only thing is, IMO, the days with the "extras" are probably better than those without.