This one is difficult for me to swallow, pun absolutely intended.
Not because I think an enormous amount of protein directly increases your bench press numbers, but because, I believe, if you’re paying attention to your diet enough to eat that amount of protein, you’ve probably been under a bar at least twice.
Perhaps this was intentional hyperbole to make your point, in which case I understand your message.
Personally don’t find this a big deal. I’ve done it plenty of times - in the space of a few hours using mainly ground beef. I would be more averse to knocking back 400g of carbs, but that’s another story…
Isn’t that over 2kg of ground beef? Even the super lean stuff. I can eat a lot man, but thats Man vs. Food level.
Yeah, thats between 4-5 lbs of ground beef. That’s insane for anybody under 300 lbs. This isn’t a callout, just pointing out that that’s extremely abnormal.
I’ve done that as part of an eating challenge when I was a lot bigger and it was tough then.
I’ve been to a seafood buffet and eaten at least 2lbs worth of fish, shrimp, octopus, oysters and squid on top of hefty portions of roasted meat, after having a protein bar and a scoop of protein powder earlier in the day, I clocked in at 250+
but yeah
and my appetite was shot for a good 3-4 days after
Haha, well I did say “mainly”. Besides, it’s 1,600 kcals of protein. Hardly Man v Food material.
When I was about 17 and in my gotta have get more protein mode and a lifeguard I couldn’t go home for dinner to get my protein so one day I went to Burger King and bought about 5 whoppers, took off all but two buns and sat there in front of all these women jumping up and down in the pool and ate my dinner. You can be sure the next day my bench was up by 50 pounds! Hah!!
Scott
Looking back at “as dumb as it gets” I remember every morning dumping scoops of the latest protein powder, brewers yeast , amino acids , bananas , icecream , and milk etc into the blender to mix up for the morning drink to go along with my wheat germ cereal , maybe then some eggs and vitamins . For lunch it was a can of tuna and sometimes some Weider 101 canned protein drink, etc. A typical dinner with steak or chicken and before bed more of that concoction I mixed up in the morning. It was great for building up love handles on my waist!!
Scott
The old “get big drink” eh?
This was similar to the eating challenge above. 13 quarter pound patties, plus some bacon and pulled pork, with 4 buns. Good fun, not something I could do every day.
From memory, Man vs Food challenges are typically in the 3-5lbs range, so its certainly in the ballpark.
Just to clarify: if it was most other posters I’d definitely be calling them out but I’ve never got a bullshit vibe from you, so it definitely isn’t that.
I can easily put down 5+ lbs of meat at an all you can eat buffet. I would rather stick to what Dr. Darden recommends for an every day diet though. It is close enough to anything I can come up with research and just feels about right.
? How is 4-5 lbs of ground beef 1600 cals? I’m assuming you ate pretty lean ground beef - 90% is 800 cals per pound, 70% is 1500 cals per pound, but even with the 90% stuff it’d be 3200-4000 calories.
And agreed with @dagill2 - i’m just taken aback by how casual and frequently you mention doing it, is all.
I usually use 95% stuff. Would still come out to ~2500 kcals to get 400g+ of protein.
Eww. Also - why do you guys say kcal? Isn’t a kcal 1000 calories?
95% is far better than anything under 80 IMO
If you add finely diced onions or mushrooms, it’s not dry at all
Just be glad he isn’t using kj
Beef mince in most British shops comes out at 80% or 95%.
Calorie is a scientific unit of energy. The energy required to raise one gram of water by 1 degree (C/K) i think. kcal is whats used when we’re talking about nutrition, and is technically 1000 calories, but no-one actually calls it that.
TL:DR: we’re right, but only by being pedantic about stuff.
that is too British 
@lordgains and I recently had this discussion.
Also, what we call weight (weight implies force) is usually actually mass. Very confusing IMO. I guess it makes calibrating scales a lot easier. An object of a certain mass can weigh different amount depending on elevation, but a mass is always that mass.
Yep. Weight is the force caused by the earths gravity acting on mass.