Food options
Red meat: beef, bison, elk, venison (GRASS FED) 95/5 or leaner
Lean protein (LESS THAN 3g fat per 8oz serving): chicken, turkey, wild caught fish, eggs (count the fat), egg whites, occasionally vegan protein.
Fats: coconut oil, olive oil (don’t cook with), macadamia oil, grassfed butter, almonds, MCT oils, cashews, walnuts (pretty much any nuts other than peanuts), avocado, (what is in grassfed protein, or wild caught fish)
Carbs: rice, potatoes, quinoa, oatmeal, pasta, cereal (Gluten free/organic – and I don’t care the color of any of them, as long as it is the only ingredient – like rice pasta, etc…).
I am very wheat intolerant, so I tend to eat gluten free (to avoid wheat, not gluten).
Greens/vegetables: unlimited, but a minimum of 2 cups, unless otherwise specified: spinach, kale, broccoli, asparagus, mixed greens, mushrooms, onions, etc…
All meats are precooked weight. Measure all carbs pre cooked. Macros for the meal must add up.
All foods is organic. All red meat and butter is grassfed. All fish is wild caught. Eggs
pasture raised. This is most important for fats, and high fat proteins. (Toxins are stored
in fat). For some white lean meat I do just “hormone and pesticide free”, not necessarily
organic. IMO managing inflammation and toxic load is the “X Factor” when getting
extremely lean. And not “halting” towards the end of prep. If you don’t agree, that’s cool,
do your thing.
Water: 24oz first thing in the AM before food (lime and apple cider vinegar first thing in
the AM as well) . At least 36oz during training. At least gallon and a half on training
days.
Changes from last bulk are in Red.
One workout (1 meal pre - training)
- Meal 1 (pre training) – 12oz red meat, 1 tbsp coconut oil
- WORKOUT 1 – Intra – 30g carbs
- Meal 2 – 12oz lean protein, 150g carbs
- Meal 3 – 8oz lean protein, 125g carbs, 15g fat, greens
- Meal 4- 8oz lean protein, 125g carbs, 15g fat, greens
- Meal 5 – 8oz lean protein, 125g carbs, greens
One workout (2 meals pre - training)
- Meal 1 – 8oz lean protein, 75g carbs, 15g fat, greens
- Meal 2 (pre training) – 12oz red meat, 1 tbsp coconut oil
- WORKOUT 1 – Intra – 30g carbs
- Meal 3 – 12oz lean protein, 150g carbs
- Meal 4- 8oz lean protein, 150g carbs, 15g fat, greens
- Meal 5 – 8oz lean protein, 150g carbs, greens
Off day
- Meal 1 – 10oz red meat, 15g fat, greens
- Meal 2 – 8oz lean protein, 15g fat, greens
- Meal 3 – 8oz lean protein, 15g fat, greens
- Meal 4- 8oz lean protein, 15g fat, greens
- Meal 5 – 8oz lean protein, 125g carbs, greens
cheat meals - Friday and Saturday night (replaces meal 5)
**** while not a “rule” I always recommend having cheat meals to replace the last meal of the day. This way you do not have some epic breakfast cheat meal that takes you 8 hours to recover from, causing you to miss 3 meals. Cheats can be essentially “whatever you can get away with”, but you need to CONSISTENTLY get in all the quality food you need to grow. I also attempt to avoid cheat foods that cause a ton of inflammation. (Messing up my stomach, or breathing the following day/s)
Supplements
PRE
- 3 capsules mental trigger (Redcon1)
- 2 scoops big noise (Redcon1)
- 4g citruline (true nutrition)
INTRA
- 10g BCAAs (Redcon1 breach)
- 5g EAAs (Thorne EAAs)
- 4g citruline malate (true nutrition)
- 30g carbs- Vitargo or Branched Dextrin (Redcon1 cluster bomb)
POST workout (with/right before meal – no shake):
- 10g leucine (true nutrition)
- 20g EAAs (Thorne EAAs)
- 5g taurine (Poliquin)
- 2 scoop electrolytes (KTS)
- 200mg theanine (Poliquin)
- 600mg Magnesium glycinate (Poliquin)
- 5g Glycine (Poliquin)
Daily/health (I recommend from Metagenics, Designs for Health, Thorne, Poliquin, Nutridyn)
- Poliquin PN multi – 3 daily
- Poliquin UltraHCL – 2 with every meal
- Poliquin Uber C Vitamin C (6g total daily)
- Poliquin uber Zinc (150-200mg daily)
- Poliquin Magnesium (1g-2g daily – 600 mag glycinate post training, 4-6 capsules of UberMag with last two meals)
- Poliquin D3 (5000iu)
- Designs for Health – Trans Resveratrol (600mg)
- Estrogen detox – Designs for Health FemGuard – 6 per day
- Poliquin or Metagenics 720 blend Fish oil – (6g per day)
- Metagenics Probiotic (2 per day, AFTER meal) – rotate between UltraFlora Spectrum and UltraFlora IB (switch every 2 weeks)
- Nutridyn greens – 3 scoops per day
- KTS Electrolytes – 4-6 scoops per day
- Fiber supplement – 15g per day (rotate brands every 2 weeks)
- Thorne berberine 500 – 1g per day
- Thorne liver cleanse – 1 cap daily
- Thorne SAT – 1 cap daily
- Nutridyn calmez – 2 with last meal
- Poliquin CLox- 2-3 per day
Off day supplement changes
- greens – 6-8 per day
- Electrolytes – 6-8 per day
- Poliquin CLox- 6 per day
- Fiber – 30g per day
- Femguard – 10 per day
- Fish oil – 3g per meal
- Increase liver/kidney detox (will follow up with this – changing products)
Off day strategies
- more sleep, more naps
- spend more time with the boys
- More “special time” with the wifey
- add in any relaxing activities in loving low intensity movement (walk outside, yoga)
- keep stress low
- increase vegetable servings per meal (as much as you can palate)
- increase water intake, at least 2+ gallons (8 liters)
- Read something non-educational
- watch excessive amounts of Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Star Wars