Hey fellas, I’m a little confused on the nutrition section, I just bought the program and can’t figure out how the fats exactly work. For example: Under supplements he says to take fish oil at breakfast, lunch, supper and before breakfast, yet under: Meal time and food category he indicates protein and carbs at some meals, do I take the fish oil with these meals as well, according to the supplement section it indicates to take it, yet under the meal schedule it mentions nothing in regards to fats, plus I thought we were not suppose to consume fats and carbs together.
Also 1 portion of fats is 3 grams of fish oil, yet he says to take 5 grams of fish oil under supplementation section, what am I missing here? Am I supposed to take extra fats besides supplementation, for example do the 5 grams of fish oil regardless, plus consume additional fats per the meal menu.Sorry if this sounds confusing. Any help would really be appreciated, I want to start the program on Monday.
The supplement section has nothing to do with the food portion section. If you decide to use fish oil as a serving of fat, it will be in addition to the fish oil you’re already supposed to be taking.
Also, don’t get hung up on not eating carbs and fat together. The rule applies to things like fried chicken, not fish oil and a potato. Think about it: nuts have carbs and fat and they’re certainly not off-limits.
Anyone in weeks 5-8, are you taking the full post-workout shake after the abs workout? I have not been adding in the Surge Recovery on these workouts and was actually debating even having a post-workout shake and just eating my next meal right after the workout. Compared to the other lifting sessions throughout the week, the abs session is not exactly “brutal”, so I really don’t feel like I’ve earned the carbs. Thoughts?
I posted this on the original thread announcing the book, but this looks like the more active thread, so re-posting here…
I’ve been debating about the Velocity Diet or this program to trim down the excess bodyfat by August (summer vacation at the beach with the family)… The 12 weeks ties in perfectly with this, but I have a few questions for CT or any of you that have done it, or are on it…
First off, the thing holding me back on the V-Diet is the amount of supplements. If I followed the V-Diet to the letter I’d be broke, as a lot of my cash is going to daycare expenses, etc. Is the only supplement on THIS plan protein, glutamine, fish oil, and Surge?
What I’ve read so far on this plan, is it’s based more on “meals” than shakes. Are the meals able to be eaten cold, as I don’t have access all the time to a microwave here at work?
Lastly, as you enter weeks 11-12, is there a maintenance plan for this kind of diet to maintain the lower level of bodyfat (not necessarily walking around at 7-8%, but around 9-10%), or is this more designed around a bulking/cutting program?
I’m all for the search function, but I was actually wondering why you dragged up a thread that was inactive for 2 months instead of posting here. But, anyway.
The V-Diet isn’t expensive. When you think about it, all you “eat” is pretty much Metabolic Drive. The total costs, from what I can gather, are around 600$ for the whole month - during which you won’t be spending any other money on food. As for this programme - whey, glutamine, fish oil and surge will get you by. Gatorade powder and BCAA’s can replace Surge. I think Creatine is also a “must.”
No, the diet will only work if you eat the meals cold. 3.1491238 degree Celsius, otherwise the whole program becomes USELESS. Sorry, bud.
After the diet ends, you’re on your own… Kinda obvious, since the plan is called “GET JACKED FAST,” not “STAY JACKED.” But with a little common sense, I doubt maintenance will be hard. Personally, I’ll be cruising for a month or two and taking it a bit easier, since 4 workouts, 4 HIIT sessions and 2 steady-state cardio sessions/week are not something I can keep up for long periods of time. Sticking to 3-5 workouts, 1-2 HIIT sessions and some sports on a weekly basis, mainly going for strength. That’s the plan. Nutrition-wise, I’ll keep carbs for breakfast and PWO… Then add more fruit throughout the day… Basically take it easy and up carb intake while maintaining weight and BF%.
I burned out on the stims in HOT-ROX, it seems… Gonna take a couple of days off, and bounce back on Sunday, I expect. I’ll probably be walking quite a bit to kill time and speed up recovery in the meanwhile.
I may have to cut one heavy lifting session from the program - I aligned the overtraining segment with specific times and can’t really change this around, so one of the vertical push/pull workouts will probably be cut. Oh, well… You do what you gotta do! And only 9 days left until overtraining time! Whoohoo!
Hey guys I have a question, I just started the program and was wondering what you guys did for your cheat meals?
Did you guys go hog wild on anything you wanted or did you eat a clean meal but just increase overall calories and carbs for the meal. Also did you consume it as your last meal as the diet says?
Overall programs going well, legs are sore as hell and all the special techniques are really killing my ego, but ill take CT’s word that it will get me jacked fast.
I’ve tried to follow the recommendations to the letter as far as timing the cheat meal, etc., but I strongly suspect the timing and content of a single cheat meal really make much difference. I have had great success so far and have had relatively clean cheats and horrid, fast-food gorging cheats in the last 6 weeks. The only downside to a dirty dirty cheat is the next day. After consuming clean, whole foods all week, one nasty dirty processed meal really tears up my digestive system for about 24-36 hours.
For the first two weeks, i didn’t need any cheat meals. I think that in weeks 3 and 4, my cheat meals were still very controlled and my fat loss started to slow down. So in the weeks after that, I went a little more crazy on the cheat meals. i.e. unhealthy dish + dessert… i still never eat real trashy foods though, here we’re just looking at a main course like lasagna and a desert like tiramisu. Hope that helps.
[quote]ndiddy85 wrote:
Hey guys I have a question, I just started the program and was wondering what you guys did for your cheat meals?
Did you guys go hog wild on anything you wanted or did you eat a clean meal but just increase overall calories and carbs for the meal. Also did you consume it as your last meal as the diet says?
Overall programs going well, legs are sore as hell and all the special techniques are really killing my ego, but ill take CT’s word that it will get me jacked fast.[/quote]
I’ve only done one cheat so far. I had bowl of turkey, brown rice and a couple sweet peppers. I also ate some grapes since there was only 1/4 cup of rice left in the box. Pretty clean overall, and yes it was the last meal of the day. I ballooned up about 4 lbs then by midweek was looking the best I’ve ever looked.
[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
Would you guys recommend taking Carbolin 19 + Se7en after going off HRX before the end of the 12 weeks?
I was thinking of doing HOT-ROX Extreme for 6-8 weeks, tops.[/quote]
If you’re cool with up to 8 weeks of HRX use, you can start using it week 5 of the program and continue it through week 11. CT recommends starting use of a fat burner in week 5, not before. The initial 4 weeks works quite well on its own.
PDL, personally I burned out on HRX after just over 2 weeks of use. I remember reading about Berardi cycling HRX and another fat burner every 2 weeks, so perhaps it’s not just me. I guess it would depend on how sensitive you are to stims.
im at 6 days in… doing my metabolic workout today
took this photo yesterday, hoping to lean out more and see visible abs while maintaining and hopefully building a bit more muscle http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/9710/007lzu.jpg