ok so i have a friend, who isnt the richest person who wants to start to gain strength. but hes not going to eat meat for a while for religious stuff. plus he doesnt really have ~15 euro to spend per day to get all the stuff needed.
should he still go on the rippetoe program like i think, just take more days off to recover since he’ll be taking less protein? thats what im thinking on telling him to start with since ive made incredible gains with it myself. his fasting will last 40 days only though so im guessing that by the time he actually reaches his 5 rep to failure and actually make gains the fast will be over by then.
what are your thoughts? ive already told him he can get protein from 2-3 litres of milk, tuna(thats 2 euro per 100 grams… 3 dollars if you need the conversion so thats 12 dollars per 100 grams of protein), eggs, and some from nuts, brown rice etc
[quote]lordstorm88 wrote:
ok so i have a friend, who isnt the richest person who wants to start to gain strength. but hes not going to eat meat for a while for religious stuff. plus he doesnt really have ~15 euro to spend per day to get all the stuff needed.
should he still go on the rippetoe program like i think, just take more days off to recover since he’ll be taking less protein? thats what im thinking on telling him to start with since ive made incredible gains with it myself. his fasting will last 40 days only though so im guessing that by the time he actually reaches his 5 rep to failure and actually make gains the fast will be over by then.
what are your thoughts? ive already told him he can get protein from 2-3 litres of milk, tuna(thats 2 euro per 100 grams… 3 dollars if you need the conversion so thats 12 dollars per 100 grams of protein), eggs, and some from nuts, brown rice etc[/quote]
Cheap protein powder? Something like Grow! whey is pretty damn cheap when you break it down per serving.
He should wait. I love Rippetoe as well. Of course, if he can stomach eating that much tuna, eggs, cheese, and drinking that much milk, then do it. Can he have chicken, or is only fish allowed? If just fish is allowed than tuna, salmon, cod, any type will suffice.
Is your friend Orthodox and doing the Lenten Fast? If so and if he is doing the fast strictly, no meat, no fish, no dairy, no eggs. Protein is hard to come by when you cut all those out. Nuts and shellfish are going to be your best bet to get protein. Good luck.
Nah, there’re plenty of articles that discuss how bad soy is. I’m in China right now and I was eating soy for about 5 months before I found those articles. I noticed visible improvements after a week off of soy.
About 1 or 2 dozen eggs though, did you mean per day? Good sources of protein are hard to come by where I am, so I’m pretty much resorting to oatmeal, eggs, nuts, milk, and cheese (when I can find any). I’m probably only eating about 8 eggs a day though. 2 dozen, you say?
Also, any recommended way of preparing the eggs? Personally, I use olive oil when I fry/scramble them, though I try not to use too much even if it is the better oil. Hope I’m not threadjacking, but I think this info will help the OP as well as myself.
