As most of you know, Tim Patterson and Biotest often work with Hollywood trainers like Jason Walsh who are tasked with getting actors in shape for challenging roles. We don’t talk about most of them, but some include Bradley Cooper, Matt Damon, and Jake Gyllenhaal.
It generally works like this: The trainer outlines his goals and plans for the actor, then Tim designs their supplement regimens. Most involve frequent, brutal workouts that could easily wreck unprepared actors. Tim’s task is to help them survive and thrive.
Jason Walsh just contacted us about an upcoming project. I don’t have all the details yet (like who the actor is or what movie it’s for) but Tim sent me the supplement plan. Check it out below. I’ll add details later if I can.
Interesting. All the protein (in supplement form) comes from Mag-10 instead of whey powders, like MB. I would actually prefer this and this sounds like a great set up. This plan would be expensive (about $12/day for Mag-10 and about $2.50/day for Surge, plus the others), but I’m guessing Matt Damon (or whoever) can afford it.
Yes, 60 grams of casein hydrolysate, plus a big hit of leucine from the Surge. I’m hoping we’ll get to see his diet plan as well to see his total protein intake. But given how 20 grams casein hydrolysate is anabolically equivalent 30 or 40 grams of conventional protein, he won’t need a lot of whole-food protein sources (for muscle-building effects at least).
I have some questions on Bio-test… where does the protein come from? (Does Bio-test make their own protein?) Its from cows milk? I have been looking for supplements and find that some protein sources are higher than others in certain aminos (there are plants that are actually higher in some aminos than animal sources, btw there is no molecular difference between plant or animal aminos)
I did my normal routine today of a 7 am Crossfit class. Jerks, push presses, wall walks, and farmer’s walks was on the docket.
This was my approach:
Wake up at 6 and drink a coffee while getting ready and saying hello to the dog/cat. Bike the one mile to my CF gym.
Bring one serving of Surge with me. Drink about half during the warm up, and about half throughout the workout.
Drink one serving of Mag-10 immediately after the workout at about 8 am. (I also bring this from home already prepared and put it in the gym’s fridge).
About 90 min later, have a typical breakfast: Greek yogurt with blueberries, oats, honey, and a couple scoops of whey protein.
If this approach goes well, I could see this being sustainable both financially and logistically. I would follow a similar approach for my garage workouts with are more 531-style strength training.
Correct me if Im wrong but as far as glucose, ATP etc… you want some glucose in the blood at time of workout, so you do a pre workout carb, longer lasting stuff is better i thought so it slow digests and enters the blood at a slower rate etc (than the sugar spike)… You use that and glycogen in the muscles for ATP production, glycogen when your are near/at failure, anaerobic/lactic acid build up. Post workout you need to replenish the glycogen burned up but that takes about 24hrs… I do some type of carb gel/stuff in the evenings to replenish that…
How does sugar during the workout help? is there any effect on insulin? I suppose if I was doing 90 min workout I could use something though… usually try to limit to 60 min or so…
I’m curious, what is it you’re trying to achieve with the questions you’re asking?
I’m not knocking knowledge or asking questions, knowledge and understanding is a good enough reason in an of itself. But your questions seem very much majoring in the minors, the sort of thing that will make the smallest of difference, the sort of thing you’d be focused on after you’d got all of the main obvious things squared away, training really hard in the right fashion to elicit the desired results (strength, hypertrophy etc) - consistently for years, diet spot on 95% of the time, sleeping deeply, for sufficient time regularly, additional support activities in line with goals (walking, stretching, meditation etc), basic supplementation covered (creatine, protein, fish oil and d3).
Once you’ve ticked all those boxes consistently and you have done for long enough to need something else then, maybe, the sort of things you’ve talked about here and the hypothetical stuff in your other thread, might make a difference, but really the difference will be low single digit % difference.
