I understand Arnold history being interesting, but why wasting your time with those old nutrition article when you can have have top notch info and complete nutrition plan by reading CT forum/post?
Using the Anaconda protocol is pretty simple too and work like a charm.
^^ The thing is sometimes there’s nothing new under the Sun.
Too many of us (myself included) read articles on training and nutrition when we already know what to do (sounds conceited).
For eample, a new study about the efficacy of intervals for fat loss or about the anti-oxidants in blueberries are fine, but I was already using both. I’m not sure what learning even more would do for me. Would I eat more blueberries? Would I do even more intervals?
Arnold’s diet plan in that book ( I read it some years ago) is pretty solid for a younger fellow starting to train. I would change it to add more veggies, as I seem to remember he didn’t have much included.
My first four years of bb’ing I put on 100 pounds of body weight (156 to 256). (Was tall and very skinny). I followed the weight gsain diet to the letter that is in the “Education…” book once, and gained 13 lb. in two weeks. But I had to stop it, it was brutal. Plus I was only 16. I know a lot was fat weight but I took any weight I could get back then.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Sarev0k wrote:
I remember one of franco columbo’s books saying that you should just eat grapes in between sets. Just a fucken fistful of grapes! Can you imagine?
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Simple sugars during the workout? Hmmm that sounds pretty familiar.
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aren’t grapes low GI?
[quote]coolusername wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Sarev0k wrote:
I remember one of franco columbo’s books saying that you should just eat grapes in between sets. Just a fucken fistful of grapes! Can you imagine?
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Simple sugars during the workout? Hmmm that sounds pretty familiar.
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aren’t grapes low GI?[/quote]
I have no clue, and honestly, who gives a shit.
Sugar = sugar in my book. And fruit has sugar in it.
I am sure Columbo had more tricks in his book than grapes to achieve his result.
[quote]UFgator11 wrote:
heees eating three hamburgers in one shot! is theese gladeeatars?!?![/quote]
T-NATION JOKE OF THE WEEK LOL!!
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]coolusername wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Sarev0k wrote:
I remember one of franco columbo’s books saying that you should just eat grapes in between sets. Just a fucken fistful of grapes! Can you imagine?
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Simple sugars during the workout? Hmmm that sounds pretty familiar.
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aren’t grapes low GI?[/quote]
I have no clue, and honestly, who gives a shit.
Sugar = sugar in my book. And fruit has sugar in it.[/quote]
Grapes = GI joes.
But yea, Ditto on that.
And about those books, its my understanding that the bodybuilders simply put their names in these books and maybe provided some commentary. I dont think the diet schemes are theirs.
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:I don’t remember the exact quote, but in one book, it talks about Tom Platz’s cutting diet for an Olympia, and it mentions some really low figure, maybe under a 1000 cals a day, with maybe 50g of protein (which just makes me assume that they must have truly relied on AAS to maintain their muscle size precontest,… if indeed this is to be believed).
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Platz used to diet 1 on, 1 off… meaning that he had one day of EXTREME caloric restriction, one day of normal eating (for him… i.e. mass building phase diet) and repeat. In that case, consuming less than 1000 kcals in one day isn’t that much of a problem. It’s not that different than intermittent fasting.