[quote]nz6stringaxe wrote:
Well at school we have our typical finals (as typical as they can be in a music school), but depending on the department, either each semester or year, instrumentalists/vocalists have a jury. It’s a grand assessment of the year, performed in front of the whole (in my case) guitar faculty. They ask you to perform various things and demonstrate this and that. It’s easily one of the most stressful things I could ever imagine. Visual artists and music composition majors have ‘critiques’ which are similar, but the thing with us is how the performance could go wrong for any reason. The stress of it all doesn’t help; memory slips are very common.[/quote]
Damn that reminds me of high school when I had a few solos throughout the year. However, I’m the one who loved attention so I loved to be out and everyone watch me
Past couple of hours I’ve had a very slight taste in the back of my mouth, as if I’ve been drinking real shitty cheap coffee (which I haven’t, and my last coffee today was about 8 hours ago).
I would say it’s ‘metallic’ but only because I’ve read people’s description of the taste related to, if I remember rightly, ketosis.
I guess I’ll just see how I feel tomorrow which is a rest day for me anyway.
I’m going to make my next load approximately 24-30 hours.
I intend to have a P+F breakfast then get straight to my workout and then go nuts with the carbs PWO but I get the feeling that even if I do have the willpower to do that, I’ll be pretty drained by then so my workout will suffer. So I’m not entirely sure what the best course of action is.
I guess I’ll just play it based on how I feel on the day.
[quote]nz6stringaxe wrote:
Well at school we have our typical finals (as typical as they can be in a music school), but depending on the department, either each semester or year, instrumentalists/vocalists have a jury. It’s a grand assessment of the year, performed in front of the whole (in my case) guitar faculty. They ask you to perform various things and demonstrate this and that. It’s easily one of the most stressful things I could ever imagine. Visual artists and music composition majors have ‘critiques’ which are similar, but the thing with us is how the performance could go wrong for any reason. The stress of it all doesn’t help; memory slips are very common.[/quote]
How long have you guys been playing?
I’ve got about 7 years under my belt and I also sing and play a little piano.
I tend to be pretty proficient on most insruments I pick up/sit at, lucky as hell in that respect.
I’m actually in the process of recording some demos to send to a friend who has some contacts down in Cali - one of which is personally friends with Steve Vai, of all people (probably my favourite musician overall).
So along with the workouts, I’m spending an immense number of hours a day practising and writing new material - I say ‘in the process’ of recording but I’ll be starting in a week or two.
So as much as I hate the image aspect of it, I wanna look my best incase I do end up getting called down there!
So Im going to ramp the cals this upcoming week since Im lighter today. Hasnt even been a week and Im a lb lighter. Lets see how this ~36 hour clean refeed with cals at a minmum of 3000 do for me this week.
[quote]bkmacky9288 wrote:
So Im going to ramp the cals this upcoming week since Im lighter today. Hasnt even been a week and Im a lb lighter. Lets see how this ~36 hour clean refeed with cals at a minmum of 3000 do for me this week.[/quote]
I’m doing so so much better with cals over 3k.
There definitely seems to be that ‘sweet spot’ with regard to calorie intake - just sufficient enough to provide energy and strength (and gains, if that’s one’s goal) but not excessive enough to cause too rapid a gain in weight.
I’m sensing I might be able to go as high as 3500 fairly safely but I’m hanging around 3200 +/- 100 - today is a rest day though, so I’m going to try and keep it lower, around 2800 (roughly maintenance).
Boy do I need this rest day, I feel tight or sore just about everywhere I can feel tight or sore hehe.
I’m gonna go absofuckinglutely nuts on sunday’s load.
I’m gonna take a whole pack of WW spaghetti - 1k cals, a WW Baguette - 900 cals (might get two of these babies).
I’m in two minds whether to have oats or not because they’re pretty filling at about 300 cals p/cup.
I could take them dry to avoid all the water used in cooking but I think I’d rather have more spaghetti or bread instead.
Also gonna get a couple of apples and bananas, a sweet potato and one ‘cheat’ item which I haven’t decided on yet. I’m going to see what baked goods are on the clearance trolley thingy in the supermarket.
Something tells me I’m going to be looking at 6k+ cals for the 30 or so hours.
Hmm… I might just make it 36 hours and have carbs for breakfast, then I can push my workout to a little later in the day.
Would any of you say that there is a real significant benefit waiting till PWO meal to hit the carbs?
I can imagine the supercompensation would be pretty crazy but I’m just speculating there…
My 12 hour load was all junk. So, i wanna see how a very clean load goes for 36 hours. I have two 5 hour shifts during this time frame, however, I get these free Greens MRP bars really high quality ingredients. No HFCS, of any kind, and no soy at all. And very tasty! I also have a high caliber nut bar. And Ill probably stuff my pockets with PB&Js
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Speaking of shifts what do you guys do if you have to work on a carb up day? I just got a new job that I’m starting tomorrow morning so I was thinking I’ll switch my refeed to sunday but I know in the future I’ll be working on saturdays and sundays. At my old job I could actually sit down for a 15min. break and eat but now I don’t think I can…Maybe I’ll have to have a shake.
Pumped, I just started a reception job at my gym today. I think this was just today, but I didn’t get a single break for the whole eight hours. Of course, a bit of a headache set in. That kind of thing really pisses me off especially since my body is so much more sensitive to when it’s not fed on time.
Any creative solutions to this problem?
I was thinking of bringing a drink worth 1-3 meals in calories to just sip at throughout the shift, comprised of whey/casein/olive oil/water/salt. There’s also a weird stipulation about drinks at the front desk, that they must be in our styrofoam cups from the drink center. That means that they probably won’t hold 32oz of something that I’d bring in my big sports bottle.
Btw, sonido/bk, I’ve been playing since 7th grade…so that’s about 7 or 8 years now. I’ve been learning piano a bit as part of school requirement, but I’m pretty poor. Singing is a bit better, but I’ve also been really exploring MIDI and electronic music.
[quote]nz6stringaxe wrote:
Pumped, I just started a reception job at my gym today. I think this was just today, but I didn’t get a single break for the whole eight hours. Of course, a bit of a headache set in. That kind of thing really pisses me off especially since my body is so much more sensitive to when it’s not fed on time.
Any creative solutions to this problem?
I was thinking of bringing a drink worth 1-3 meals in calories to just sip at throughout the shift, comprised of whey/casein/olive oil/water/salt. There’s also a weird stipulation about drinks at the front desk, that they must be in our styrofoam cups from the drink center. That means that they probably won’t hold 32oz of something that I’d bring in my big sports bottle.
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Well at my old job I could just sit down and eat a meal but now thats not an option unless the shift is really long. There is always the option of bringing a shake but then I have to sneak off to the bathroom with my bag which is again harder cause theres no lockers like in my old job and to be honest I hate wasting a good carb up meal on an almost tasteless shake that I chug in 10 seconds haha. So now I have to decide if I want to have tomorrow be a normal day with a metabolic workout and push my carb up and strength workout to sunday or if I should just have my carb up and strength workout tomorrow. Another reason I didn’t want to do my strength workout tomorrow is cause it’d have to be first thing in the morning when strength is supposedly lower…of course I’m completely overanalyzing this
as for your situation I’m surprised you went that long without eating. I would definitely go with the shake idea and just pour what you can into the bottle and then refill as it gets empty.
[quote]nz6stringaxe wrote:
Your idea of keeping it in a locker and taking it as you go to the bathroom is even more interesting…[/quote]
yea that’s what I did at my old job. The locker and break area was upstairs so I would just get it at the break and go into the bathroom and chug it, then I just started bringing a real meal and would sit down and eat it but now thats not an option…the locker part anyway so I have no idea where I’m gonna be able to put my bag but I’m sure theres some place for it because it’s not like no one brings stuff to work
whats the best way to cook lean burger patties? i tried in the gorge foreman grille and it sucks all the fats out, im guessing all of the good fats aswell
should i just cook it in a pan to it soaks in its own juice or?
I BBQ all meat its easy and leaves no mess in the kitchen with less to wash up. BBQs rock! G.Foreman should be fine I would have thought. I dont think it needs to “soak in its own juice” the fats are in the meat. I usually let all meat sit on a paper towel to soak up the outside cooking fat anyways…
[quote]synny wrote:
whats the best way to cook lean burger patties? i tried in the gorge foreman grille and it sucks all the fats out, im guessing all of the good fats aswell
should i just cook it in a pan to it soaks in its own juice or?[/quote]
I BBQ all meat its easy and leaves no mess in the kitchen with less to wash up. BBQs rock! G.Foreman should be fine I would have thought. I dont think it needs to “soak in its own juice” the fats are in the meat. I usually let all meat sit on a paper towel to soak up the outside cooking fat anyways…
[quote]synny wrote:
whats the best way to cook lean burger patties? i tried in the gorge foreman grille and it sucks all the fats out, im guessing all of the good fats aswell
should i just cook it in a pan to it soaks in its own juice or?[/quote]
