how bad is it if you can’t get agood meal and supps until hours later?
i mean you may get a quick bite right after a hard workout, but a full solid meal with supps, protein shake, etc not until many hours later.
I would say you’re doing yourself a major disservice if you don’t plan ahead and make it happen somehow. Plan a meal/replacement and throw it in your car/gymbag.
For my body, success or failure comes pretty much from nutrition. If I don’t get that right, I stay mediocre.
[quote]sumabeast wrote:
how bad is it if you can’t get agood meal and supps until hours later?
i mean you may get a quick bite right after a hard workout, but a full solid meal with supps, protein shake, etc not until many hours later.[/quote]
You basically negate your workout, I have to drill this into my clients all the time. Like the other poster said, bring your protein and carbs with you in a plastic bag in your gym bag. All you need to do is throw them in a shaker PWO. After your shake you have 60-90 minutes to consume a PWO meal – for strength and improved body comp. I’d suggest something well-balanced and reasonably high in carbs.
[quote]sumabeast wrote:
how bad is it if you can’t get agood meal and supps until hours later?
i mean you may get a quick bite right after a hard workout, but a full solid meal with supps, protein shake, etc not until many hours later.[/quote]
What kind of timing are we talking about here, like, training at 10am and not eating a real meal until 5pm or something drastic like that?
If your schedule is so tight that you can’t arrange ideal nutrition, I’d say it would be that much more important to make sure you’re getting protein and carbs before and during your training (along the lines of what Thib’s has been working on with the peri-workout shakes). That way, your body isn’t starving for the good stuff immediately after lifting.
The only way one can’t get adequate peri-workout nutrition is through sheer laziness and carelessness!
How difficult is it to dump powders and/or juice into a thermos and put it in your gym bag? How hard is it to put a sandwich and a fruit in a cooler, leave it in your car while you work out, and then eat it when you return?
You know, I’m really starting to think people ask questions on this board just to strike up conversation or see us more fanatical fitness devotees/professionals run wild with our advice and information because they know that’s what they’re gonna get.
Writers and posters on here say what is good and bad for adequate fitness and nutrition and then pests come on here and ask vague, almost unmeasurable questions like:
“But how bad is it?”
“But is that really necessary?”
“But is is OK I if just…”
“I’ve been following the diet/training program but I switched up… Is that OK?”
“According to the Rapid Fat Loss Diet, I should consume 900 calories. Is it OK if I’m consuming 1,500?”
I have no idea what these questioners want anymore! I don’t believe they intend to be pesty, but they sure are. Just like I’m a pest sometimes in being over-emotive in some of my posts.
Perhaps they’re incoherent; again, something not their fault or intention. But if one is coherent and logical, they’d realize that, yes, you can make SOME gains if you do shit suboptimally, but they won’t be as fast and you won’t feel as good and be healthy as you can be if you do shit OPTIMALLY!
With other factors like luck, timing, skills, and other shit aside, perhaps we can use the example of two salesman:
Salesman A. This guy’s extremely tight with his schedule. He makes phone calls everyday and is always chasing new leads. He makes sure that his back-to-back appointments are in the same area so that he doesn’t have to spend nearly half his day traveling all over town and getting nothing done. He doesn’t waste his time on Facebook, Myspace, or Match.com; doesn’t fuck around sipping on coffees and “txtin” and making mindless chatter with anyone who he comes across. He spends a few hours Sunday setting up his schedule. He listens to educational stuff in his car.
Salesman B. The guy has SOME skills and he does SOME work. But he is extremely lazy, doesn’t like to do the necessary, non-fun grunt work (dirty work like calls, appointment setting, paper work, etc) and spends half his day fucking around with errands, mindless chatter, texting, listening to crap on the radio, and other nonsense. He flimsily schedules appointments that are located distant from one another so a chunk of his day is used up in transit. But the guy DOES close sales sometimes.
Salesman A will get to his income goals much more efficiently and quicker than B. BOTH will get returns on their investment in their work, but A earns more and gets more done in less time.
Damn I missed your rants Brick…if there’s an upside to being unemployed, you can post more!
OP, it’s pretty obvious para-WO nutrition is vital to anyone serious about lifting weights. Just count the number of different threads, articles, and supplement products on this site.
Brick - I agree, but WOW!
OP - How many hours is “many hours”? 3? 8? 12?
Have you considered moving your workout to a different time of day, where eating proper periworkout nutrition is easier?
In any case, like Brick said, its not hard to just pack a meal and shake in your car and get the right food when you need it. If you are serious about building muscle, you will start to take your periworkout nutrition serious too. If not, that’s fine, but don’t expect great gains.
Thanks Phatkins and TPreuss! I know I’m fucked up and pesty too! But at least I admit. 
geez sorry i angered so many of you.
i train 3-4 days a week , one of those days i have to head straight to work after, so at 2 or 3pm i get a quick bite to eat, but a real good meal not until 11pm
yea of course i could pack food ahead, but was just wondering is it that bad 'cause some times you get busy and don’t have time to organize proper meals.