So the holiday has been very bad to me… I’ve gained like 10 lbs in pure body fat because of moving around cities so much between home and school. Add to that the fact that I ended up teaching karate 10/10 times that I intended to take the class myself, and my exercise got shafted.
Thursday starts my EDT program, and I want to do the whole thing right, diet and all. For reference, I’m choosing EDT because right now my primary goal is to lose body fat and grow some aerobic endurance balls of steel (I just got promoted to 4th degree blackbelt, its time to look the damn part, eh?). So my questions…
Would Surge pre-workout powder be good for an EDT workout, or is EDT not “intense” enough to really draw out the full effects? If I do a pre-workout Surge, do I follow with a post-workout Surge?
If I’m going to work out in the mornings around 10am between classes, would a lite breakfast plus possibly the Surge be too much? I deal with class better with food, but I don’t want to screw my workouts… It’s last semester, senior year… I can afford a C if I really have to.
Lets talk snack foods… What are good, cheap, simple, and easily transportable fruits/vegetables for snacks? How about “solid” cheeses? When I’m in class, whatever my snack is needs to be baggie-transportable and preferably have a low clothes-staining likelihood. Like Clementines. Cheese transports well and pairs well with fruits/veggies, but I hear wars being fought over cheese types… Low fat vs full fat, etc… advice?
(EDIT) Anybody have experience adding L-Leucine to eggs? I think a small breakfast sandwich kinda thing would be the kind of thing I can make in 10 minutes which makes it perfect for my needs…
In all honesty, the between-meal snacks are where I fail most often in my diet because I just don’t have good ideas and sometimes look in the wrong places because of my college-kid budget.
[quote]samdan wrote:
I’m choosing EDT because right now my primary goal is to lose body fat and grow some aerobic endurance balls of steel …
If I do a pre-workout Surge, do I follow with a post-workout Surge?[/quote]
If you’re trying to lose fat, do not take Surge before and after training. It’s one or the other. Though, since endurance is also your goal, you might want to look into Surge Workout Fuel.
EDT can be an intense workout if you actually push yourself enough and don’t punk out.
In this situation, I’d probably have the Surge during the workout and a solid food meal soon afterwards.
A lot of this depends on your overall nutrition plan. Are you going low carb? Low fat? Low protein? What dietary needs do you need to fit? Generally speaking, you can’t go wrong with either something low carb and high protein (like low fat cheese or jerky, like rrjc said) or something high fiber/high in satiety (a pear, celery, a small serving of nuts like flevinra said).
Well I tried out an EDT when I was still at school and therefore on a “normal” exercise schedule. After my first pair, I threw up a little in my mouth, couldn’t see straight for about a minute, and thought part of my vision had been fried because part of the carpet looked blurry (it turned out to be a frizzy sticking out from the carpet). Loved every minute of it.
My nutrition plan… Probably the best thing to describe it would be Low Carb… I try to keep the fat down too, but I know that if I get it from the right places, I need to be more concerned about volume of fat than the fat itself. In the end, I’d love to be about 50 lbs lighter than I am now.
Im not necessarily talking about leucine on the eggs, I’m thinking IN the eggs… like 2 eggs, some spinach, shiitake mushrooms, some onion, and the leucine. Top with some ground turkey and cheese, fit with english muffin, and enjoy. I know I’m a “taster”, because when I first got it, I tried some on my finger and immediately regretted it. Goes good in shakes though.
Thanks for the advice, and nice sound-repeating phrase. I can’t think of the word for that, but it starts with an S and I definitely used it last week…