- What we eat on road trips - talk about game meat!
Dr. Berardi,
Whenever I try to bring my diet into line with where it should be (which predictably leads to reducing white and fluffy carbs, eating more protein and veggies) my body reacts very badly. If I hold to it for a couple of days I get headaches, I sweat, my sinuses go nuts.
Have you ever seen anyone experience this before?
Any thoughts?
What is the satus on your recipe book. Still coming out the beginning of '05?
Jason
How’s this for twisties?
Here’s that dinner picture I promised…
Hey Dr. Berardi,
I am ccurently doing research project proposal for a 4 thousand level kinesiology course. I am hoping to do some research on the effects of increased protein consumption on 3rep max bench press strength. I was wondering if you have any sgguestions on methedologies and procedures that you have previously used or are using to study this subject? Due to lack of funding, we can only ask our subjects to log their consumption.Do you have any suggestions to help control the limitations of measuring exact amounts of protein consumed??
thanks in advance
Michael Smith
[quote]John M Berardi wrote:
How’s this for twisties?[/quote]
Make sure you have a backup engine on a road like that, cause I won’t be driving down it to give you a spark plug 
Dr. Berardi can’t wait for that article!
For a strength athlete wanting to have a body recomposition without suffering in performance you recommend to up the calories by 1000 and energy expenditure by another 1000 by the way of short sprint interval(15-30sec work ), my question is how do you calculate how many repetitions of those intervals to do to account for the 1000 extra calories?
if you do them in one session or more and if you do them the same day as the strength day or off days.
Im wondering if the he reason for not doing a longer work ratio interval (60sec –2:00 like 400mts, heavy bag work, DB swings.etc…) is because the energy demand for this type of intervals are to great and this will interfere with the performance gains in strength?
And my last question, will this be explain in more detail in your book Tailor Made Nutrition?
Thanks again for all your help.
Given your background Dr. B,
Have there been any studies on the effects of Power Drive taken while doing PT for an injury or while doing skills training for a martial arts. In both instances there is a heavy mental-physical link. I was wondering if it might help with the learning, and in regards to injuries, lower back therapy, where you have to relearn to perform a lot of athletic movements, and restrengthen the muscles
thanks,
rappan
Mr. Berardi,
Right now I have a PWO made of Gatorade and whey. I can’t find any carriers of dextrose or malto in my area. Is it ok to keep using the Gatorade PWO as long as I drink it immediately after lifting? Or should I keep trying to find some? Which would be optimal?
I don’t know if you’ll have the answer, but I have a question for you…
I think I’m allergic to my workplace. It is an old place with plenty of dust and mold. There is zero ventillation unless you count the breeze blowing through the closed window. Anyhow I think the damned place is getting the best of me even though I take claritin (loratadine) every day.
Realistically, how much stress and cortisol is this going to cause and how much of my recovery efforts can be wasted on the allergic response instead of rebuilding muscle after a workout?
More importantly, and perhaps easier to answer without knowing specifics, other than quitting and finding another place to work, are there any strategies, nutritional or otherwise, that I can follow to combat this? For example, perhaps extra sleep, protein or maybe a different medication?
[quote]raymond333 wrote:
John,
I am as big as I want to be and have been doing 5x5 rep scheme for cutting. My question is besides diet, to not gain any more size, and just cut what I have, should I stick with the 5x5, or go a little higher like 8-12, or does it really matter? Would 12-15 reps to failure be a good idea? Thanks
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You got it all wrong.
Check out the article in todays issue
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do;jsessionid=300A73617B05557371C745006B31FE36.ba13-1?id=517831
C Thibaudeau says it all.
If you run track and you have a 400 m race at about 3:30 pm. what would be a good diet to consume that day and what would be good times to eat. Would you want more carbs or more protein? What are the ideal macronutrient ratios?
height 5’7
weight 150
Thanx so much.
Andrew Jones
Hi Dr. John,
I am going to do a cycle with the new MAG-10 Legacy and will be dieitng using Massive Eating. Is there anything about the Massive Eating plan I should change because I am adding the supplementation. Macronutrients? The increments that I go up in Kcal’s each 2 week period? I will be cycling MAG-10 for 3, 2 week periods. Should I start at a higher value than 250kcal above maintainence.
Thanks!
Dr John, thanks for your answers, i live in Australia, so i think that’s impossible for me to go to your seminars.
i’ve only one more question. i know some of the pro bodybuilders train twice per day, that means they’ve 2 “energy phase”,2 “anabolic phase”, 2 “growth phase”, and a short “the rest of day”(usually it’s night time sleeping). is that means muscle growth is also twice as much? if my goal is fat loss while keeping all my muscles, will that affect my result?
Monster
I think those pro’s are all on steroids so can handle greater training loads.
I don’t think your average joe would want to train that often… (unless on steroids/ph)
[quote]rosheem wrote:
I actually prefer rope skipping. I usually do 5 sets of 50-70 double jumps with a few minutes rest in between. The total session time is usually only 15 minutes. My HR will usually get up to about 95% max. Is this sufficient if the goal is heart health, or would it be advisable to mix in some slow and steady sessions of longer durations? Thanks.[/quote]
This is probably cool if you’re after “heart health” - as long as you’re doing about 3 sessions per week.
[quote]Get Lifted wrote:
Fun, Fun, Fun Doctor JB,
Book question. (Nutrient Timing)
The book mentions 10 minutes prior to training drink Whey + SS + 16 ounces of water mix. Gly. Sparing, protein sparing, immune stabilizing function, etc.
I don’t see you mentioning this much or maybe I am missing it? It does talk about the energy phase anabolic phase and grow phase. Energy phase being preworkout/workout supplementation. Anabolic phase being post workout. Growth phase being the hour after words supplementation.
Can you straighten this out for me as to the benefits of preworkout supplementation 10 minutes prior to the workout? Any thoughts really…
Do you like crotch rockets? Or even better I would like to see you on a pocket rocket(little CR bike). LOL
-Get Lifted
P.S I burn DB for lunch. 
Very hard position to play, since I know where I am going and you don’t.[/quote]
In my opinion, this is the same as my recommendations to drink a shake during the workout. No difference at all since drinking 10 min prior will hit the blood around the start of the workout while drinking (at the onset) will hit about 10 min in. That time lag is insignificant.
The only problem with drinking just before is this - all that fluid sloshing around in your gut makes for some nasty puking episodes.