Today is arm day so there isn’t much exciting to post about training wise, so I figured I’d list what I’m currently eating.
My diet has been very basic lately. My appetite is still very high–both from my contest still, and also because I took 5+ weeks off of training and supplements after the show and the initial appetite burst that comes from that is still hitting me. Because of that I’m kind of just letting my appetite tell me when to eat.
I just make a bunch of meals with 6oz meat, 50g carbs, and sometimes an extra 7g of healthy fat and eat one when I get hungry….which is about every 2-3 hours.
Here’s how today went:
8am (apparently I shut my alarm off and slept through the first hour of work…): 6oz flank steak, 1 cup rice
11am: 6oz flank steak, 1 cup rice, 2 ladels tomato soup
2pm: 6oz flank steak, 1 cup rice
4pm: 1 burrito (35g carbs, 12g protein, 8g fat), 40g protein powder
5pm: 1 bowl cereal (I have this preworkout most days)
intra workout: 15g EAAs, 30g HBCDs
7:30: 6oz chicken, 1 cup pinto beans, 1 cup rice, salsa
9:30: 6oz ground turkey, 4 slices toast
My weight is currently in the mid 280s. It’s climbing pretty quick though….which I’m not sure how I feel about. I don’t mind getting bigger, but I also know that I’m not carrying enough muscle to be a lean 290…and I really didn’t want to get too fat this year.
As far as training goes, I’ve been having the best workouts I’ve had in probably 10 years. I’m enjoying training heavy again and having a blast training more like I used to. I’m trying to focus on being as consistent with my meals as possible and training as hard as possible right now….without getting overly obsessed with the diet part.
Ward Stanford says
What’s your cardio like right now while you’re in your off season?
Justin Harris says
I do some high rep sets in my workouts from time to time and the bathroom at work is at least 30 steps away
Ellis says
how do you feel about protein powder supplementaion in the offseason ? and how much if you do?
Justin Harris says
I feel like it’s inferior to whole food protein sources, but mostly just because it digests so quickly and protein synthesis is a slow/infrequent process and you don’t typically want a protein to digest rapidly. But it’s better than no protein at all and works just fine when you can’t cook a meal