Mc Donald's Big Mac

[desmond]

I recall one of our gold medal winning cyclists basically saying he lived off maccas.

I know Rafael Nadal who is insanely fit eats chocolate for breakfast and pizza most nights (or at least he used to)

And yes Phelps is legendary.

I agree though some food like pizza may be considered bad from a bf perspective, but its ingredients are hardly terrible and if u could see how they are useful from a performance perspective.

If you look at studies on high GI v low GI for athletic performance, they are pretty mixed and don't give an overwhelming support for low GI carbs (most exercising people have good insulin sensitivity, so hence for many high GI carbs won't be fattening uniquely except of course on a cals in v cals out basis)

A friend of mine at the Australian institute of sports (basketball) was just told to eat as many carbs as possible - and basically said his coach didn't care where they come from.

Having said that, I'm not going to try this junk food approach. My diet is ATM just vegetables, lean meats, eggs, milk, herbs and cocoa, bananas PWO and 99% of the time nothing else

Yeah thats a good point. But how "crappy" are these guys REALLY eating?

Only one I'm semi familiar with from your example is Michael Phelps. He eats a lot of food, but, it's not terrible. If you swim all day and eat pizza a lot is it THAT bad? Pizza has quick digesting carbs, tomatoe sauce and lots of protein from cheese.

I think he also eats a lot of burgers, steaks, fries and some other stuff. It all seems like quick acting fuel to me.

Like they say, the only time you can eat like a "fat guy" is post work out. Well half of the day michael phelps is in post work out mode since he exercises religiously multiple times a week, multiple times a day.

 

[XOXOXO]

phelps is a terrible example. the guys works out as his job. unless you are going to be burning 10k cals or more per day, doesn't make sense to calorie and carbo load

 

[joe d]

i am a huge eater. i clear 7000 cals ed. this is not my diet now but one time i did an experiment searching for a way to make use of more food. based on the carbs fueling everything includung protein synthesis theory i went from 7 to 14 meals per day. i still ate my huge 7 meals but about 45 minutes before each meal i would eat about 30g of simple carbs. the result was a faster digestion rate. the faster digestion let me eat more and the eating more helped me recover faster and recovering faster lets me train harder and training harder burns more cals. the concept works and i still use it. the numbers would be different for everyone. my trick now is still pretty much the same. i eat simple carbs with every meal and i eat less of the complex carbs. the complex carbs limit how much you can eat more than anything. there are pros and cons in any type of diet but for me the 600-700g of protein ed out weighs any bad from the bb'ing stand point.