Dinner means different things to different people. Most of the time we call the meal around 6 o’clock ”dinner”, but I suppose when you’ve adopted the eat every three hours schedule…things can get a little confusing.
Sometimes if I eat dinner at 6 I still will have two more meals before I hit the sack.
So in this post we’ll cover what to eat for dinner and principles to live by for all other late night meals… (Read more)
The three most important meals of the day are breakfast (or using my terminology Pre-Breakfast), your pre-workout meal, and your post-workout meal.
You could easily argue that post-workout nutrition is THE most important of the three.
Following any type of workout … (Read more)
The best analogy I can come up with for pre-workout nutrition is to imagine your body is like a car. Common sense tells us that for our car to accelerate it has to have fuel.
Completely ignoring pre-workout nutrition is a little like pretending you can drive your car without gas.
Not all that smart.
So we’re going to talk about the what, when, and why of pre-workout nutrition.
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Realistically, packing up 3 meals before you head off to work or the gym is a little insane. I’ve taken two many a time, but three? That’s way too much effort.
Thank god for supplements.
When you can you should be eating real food, and not as one of my friends calls it ”space food.” However, when we’re trying to eat every three hours sooner or later we’re going to run into a time where we just can’t get up and go eat.
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Since my first amateur MMA fight is less than a month away, and I already know that my first ever weight cut is coming up I figure I should go ahead and talk about how exactly I plan to do it.
Weight cutting is just part of the sport…almost every fighter is trying to gain an advantage by being the bigger man in the cage. Some do it correctly, others don’t. The ones that don’t pay the price—whether it be a lackluster performance or … (Read more)
Lunch is typically on the go for me, so this is where that planning comes in that I was talking about.
In order to keep your metabolism up and running we’ve got to eat our lunch roughly 3 hours after breakfast.
So far its gone like this: Pre-Breakfast, Breakfast, and now lunch.
I… (Read more)
Quite possibly, the most important aspect of our diet is not the food itself, but the discipline to eat the right food.
So for this post we’ll talk about that and cheating…if it’s ok and when to do it.
Without a doubt the toughest part of this diet is the ability to actually stay on it. And I say this coming off a sugar bender last night. So don’t think I’m sitting up… (Read more)
We’re going to take a slight detour off my daily diet in this post so I can explain what exactly I’m looking for out of each meal I consume. I realized that I’m telling you what I’m eating and why, but I haven’t really broken down my plan heading into each of those meals.
Whether it’s your strength and conditioning, or your skill work, or in this case, performance nutrition, it’s super important to have a pl… (Read more)
They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but for me I suppose that’s my Pre-Breakfast. So let’s just call this what it is—another critical meal in The MMA Diet, because they are all, in fact, critical.
Before I go over what my breakfast typically consists of, I want to apprise you of two crucial nutritional concepts that com… (Read more)
I’m calling this an MMA diet, but it could just as easily be any athletes diet or even someone who wants a lean muscular physique because the same principles still apply.
If you’re not a heavyweight, chances are you have to make a weight class. And the idea is to be the biggest and strongest at that particular weight class that you can possibly be. Which is why you hear about guys cutting a ridiculous amount of weight … (Read more)
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