Start every meal by ingesting 300-400g of a green veggie (my personal choice is broccoli), drink a large amount of water … wait 5 minutes THEN have your meal. Make it a habit of not eating a meal before you have ingested the veggies and drank the water. This will fill you up and thus reduce your food intake. Furthermore it will increase digestion time, which means that you’ll stay full longer.
[quote]nArKeD wrote:
Hey CT, I am hungry all the time. What I mean is I want to eat food. I can put away insane amounts of food. My body seems to be trying to gain weight (since my childhood I’ve been on track to be 250 pounds at just over 6 feet tall), but I think I’m plenty big enough. How can I eat big without putting away a lot of calories? How can I be satieted without pigging out? Since, I’m hungry so much it’s difficult to make good food choices the whole day. Right now I’m just eating as much as I feel like as long as it’s clean. Of course, I’d like to be lean. But what I want most is a diet that will keep me from being so fricking hungry.[/quote]
Would sledgehammer and sandbag training done on days no weight-training is done, but rather GPP days, negatively impact recovery from lifting? Also, what kind of a sandbag and sledge routine would you use for a wrestler?
Also, HOT-ROX helps me control my hunger (and, much like you I can be a compulsive eater). The supplement glucomanan could also help by increasing the feeling of fulness before a meal (especially if used with the strategy I mentionned before).
[quote]Christian Thibaudeau wrote:
Start every meal by ingesting 300-400g of a green veggie (my personal choice is broccoli), drink a large amount of water … wait 5 minutes THEN have your meal. Make it a habit of not eating a meal before you have ingested the veggies and drank the water. This will fill you up and thus reduce your food intake. Furthermore it will increase digestion time, which means that you’ll stay full longer.
nArKeD wrote:
Hey CT, I am hungry all the time. What I mean is I want to eat food. I can put away insane amounts of food. My body seems to be trying to gain weight (since my childhood I’ve been on track to be 250 pounds at just over 6 feet tall), but I think I’m plenty big enough. How can I eat big without putting away a lot of calories? How can I be satieted without pigging out? Since, I’m hungry so much it’s difficult to make good food choices the whole day. Right now I’m just eating as much as I feel like as long as it’s clean. Of course, I’d like to be lean. But what I want most is a diet that will keep me from being so fricking hungry.
[quote]KombatAthlete wrote:
Would sledgehammer and sandbag training done on days no weight-training is done, but rather GPP days, negatively impact recovery from lifting? Also, what kind of a sandbag and sledge routine would you use for a wrestler?[/quote]
Understand that if you choose to make sandbag training GPP work on separate days, you cannot work it as hard as you would if it is included on another workout day as it removes one recovery day.
For wrestlers I feel that sandbag training is one of the best training tool to use, especially various types of lifts from the floor and carries. As such I would recommend using it as part of your regular routine, and training hard on it.
The sledgehammer work can be kept for the separate GPP sessions.
Hi CT,
This sort of dawned on me after I ran today, (using your Running man program, which is awesome BTW). I recently started training 6mo ago, and 8 weeks ago I started sprinting a la your Running Man program. I’ve seen great increases in weight, (around 25lbs), but noticed that I seem to be gaining size primarily on my lower body. I checked this today, and it is true, I gained 4in on my upper leg circumference and 2.5in on my calf since I started training. I have yet to gain a full inch in my chest, arms, anything above the waist.
I realized that because I am sprinting 2X per week and doing two lower body WO’s per week, I am effectively getting 4 lower body WO’s per week, twice what I am getting for my upper body. I am currently following ABBH, after that I will probably start on WSSB. Could you reccomend any general modifications to these “basic” programs to include your Running Man progression on the off days?
CT,
I really like your new deadlift artical, I have beaten my previous pr’s off of a 8 in box!!! Would it be alright to add in power snatces in stead of PC on the second day?
Thanks
Will42
i will try the neck workout. By the way, the rest of that article was very good indeed. Shame T-Nation cannot re-release an old article every week. Good articles never die!
Long live my training bible " Different Destinations, Different Journeys".
[quote]Will42 wrote:
CT,
I really like your new deadlift artical, I have beaten my previous pr’s off of a 8 in box!!! Would it be alright to add in power snatces in stead of PC on the second day?
Thanks
Will42[/quote]
Yes, no problem at all. I stayed with power clean from the hang in the article as most athletes/T-Nation readers know this lift more than the snatch. But any variation of those exercises will do just fine.
I loved the Power Continum article and am planning to use it for the basis of my next off season training program. Couple of q’s.
My off season is closer to 5 months than 3 so can I use the first cycle (early pre season) for longer and just use the last 2 cycle for the last 8 weeks?
Other than throwing in some beach training at the end od a session, is there much room of muscle growth?
Are they any tests for the continums to determine where your weakness in the ‘chain’ lies?
[quote]AMIRisSQUAT wrote:
CT, what effects do steroids have on CNS recovery?
Amir[/quote]
What are steroids?
Seriously though, Cy would be better than me to answer that one. All I can say is that heavy androgens (testosterone, trenbolone, dianabol, anadrol, etc.) have a profound CNS potentiating effect (which is one of the reasons for the super fast strength increase seen with these substances). So my guess is that it might help with CNS function and maybe recovery.
On the other hand, since it “boosts” the CNS, chances are that it can also drain it faster. I’d still use a supplement like Power Drive AFTER each workout: this strategy has helped me and my athletes TREMENDOUSLY with CNS recovery.
CW mentioned he would rather focus on not allowing too much central fatigue accumulation in the first place, in training rather than figuring out ways to combat it; do you share his opinion?
Amir
[quote]Christian Thibaudeau wrote:
AMIRisSQUAT wrote:
CT, what effects do steroids have on CNS recovery?
Amir
What are steroids?
Seriously though, Cy would be better than me to answer that one. All I can say is that heavy androgens (testosterone, trenbolone, dianabol, anadrol, etc.) have a profound CNS potentiating effect (which is one of the reasons for the super fast strength increase seen with these substances). So my guess is that it might help with CNS function and maybe recovery.
On the other hand, since it “boosts” the CNS, chances are that it can also drain it faster. I’d still use a supplement like Power Drive AFTER each workout: this strategy has helped me and my athletes TREMENDOUSLY with CNS recovery.[/quote]
Regarding your Renaisance program, how would you work in glute hams? substitute for another lower body movement or additional movement or no need because of sled?
CW mentioned he would rather focus on not allowing too much central fatigue accumulation in the first place, in training rather than figuring out ways to combat it; do you share his opinion?
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I agree, but I still think that using means to combat the accumulated CNS fatigue, even if it’s not excessive, should be used. The faster the CNS can recover, the faster can one progress.