[quote]Stronghold wrote:
G87 wrote:
detazathoth wrote:
I don’t see why all the hating on T-Nation and the local “ways.”
I haven’t been on both sides, but things seems to be pretty different for assisted and non-assisted athletes. In a few interviews from elitefts, for example, people talk smack about PWO shakes, and it doesn’t seem like a lot of pros in any weightlifting sport pay attention to things like that. On the other hand, proper nutrition made all the difference for me.
What you eat at the other 5-7 meals each day is going to have a much greater impact than the ratio of carbs to protein in your post workout shake. Hell, some of the biggest guys I know eat fried chicken and drink v8 after they work out.[/quote]
Ironically when I eat shit strength goes way up, recovery goes down, cardiovascular health goes waaaaay down. Whenever I wanna do a PR on some lift I’ve been stagnant on for more the a couple of weeks, all I do is introduce some not-so-clean meals and I get the PR. Probably could be due to a calorie deficit that had been compensated by food. My diet isn’t up to 100%, and I like it that way for the odd ‘strength gains’ it gives. Odd stuff.