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I eat all of the balanced food groups like kids cereal, pop tarts, Gushers, candy bars, soda, Eggo waffles, and Jelly Bellys.
I swear when I was the most cut and in shape of my life was when I was teaching and training the martial arts 7 days of the week. I remember getting home late and having a big bowl of Lucky Charms and two Newcastle beers for dinner many nights. I'd eat the "cat food" parts of the lucky charms first and save the marshmallow treats for last. Then I'd open up a couple of beers and I was good. Ah, the single life.
The thing is, I would train about 3 hours per day every day back then. I was 6' 1" and around 150 - 160lbs. Now, I eat pretty much anything I want (but its usually the good stuff) and I stay around 175-190lbs depending on if Im cutting or bulking.
Myself, I like to balance the piquancy of nacho cheese Doritos with the cloying sweetness of a pint o' Cherry Garcia.***
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Originally Posted by DaBeez
I'd eat the "cat food" parts of the lucky charms first and save the marshmallow treats for last. Then I'd open up a couple of beers and I was good. Ah, the single life.
You didn't put the beer in your cereal?
***(actually, just thinking about it makes me want to barf ... LMAO)
I swear when I was the most cut and in shape of my life was when I was teaching and training the martial arts 7 days of the week. I remember getting home late and having a big bowl of Lucky Charms and two Newcastle beers for dinner many nights. I'd eat the "cat food" parts of the lucky charms first and save the marshmallow treats for last. Then I'd open up a couple of beers and I was good. Ah, the single life.
The thing is, I would train about 3 hours per day every day back then. I was 6' 1" and around 150 - 160lbs. Now, I eat pretty much anything I want (but its usually the good stuff) and I stay around 175-190lbs depending on if Im cutting or bulking.
Haha, yeah if you're working out enough it doesn't matter. I personally am a big fan of sugar cereals in the morning, and would actively debate with anyone who says they are not the best food you can eat if you live an active lifestyle. If you don't, well, that's another story. But most breakfast food is unhealthy, when you think about it, and sugar cereal really isn't. Ok so you have sugar -- so what? Sugar isn't bad for you at all. It's only bad for your teeth, if you don't brush, and it's only bad for your body IF it turns to fat, which only happens when you don't work out. For me, sugar cereal is the best food in the morning, when I'm active especially, because it gives me immediate energy -- carbs are metabolized the fastest, protein much slower, and in the morning you don't need protein, you need carbs. If you're going to eat carbs, fiber won't give you much energy at all, but sugar will. And the perfect part is it won't fill you up very well. A few bowls of cereal will only fill me up for 2-4 hours, not to mention I can work out only an hour after eating cereal, maybe even 45 minutes later, without feeling heavy or gross. So it's the perfect breakfast food, fast energy, immediately metabolized, just the calories I need to start the day. Then as the day progresses, my diet changes to a heavier emphasis on protein, as my muscles are being used and need to be rebuilt.
So 6'1" 150 to 160?! Wow you were SKINNY! haha. I started martial arts at 5'10" low 170s, but as I trained a bit and focused more on cardio / speed / flexibility over weight-lifting and bulk, I dropped to about 166, which is where I've been ever since. It was worth trading a little bit of muscle for more flexibility and speed, but not any more, for me. I would not mind being 175 again if I could still be fast and flexible, but it's just a balance. I don't think I'm "big" at all really, I'm muscular and toned but not big, yet my master always used to say that I should lose more upper body muscle because it was preventing me from moving as fluidly. I think that's not really true, I think that was a lot more my inexperience with some movements, something training would fix, not losing muscle mass. Also I have been very happy to have that extra padding in the form of muscle when I take a hard kick to the chest or whatever, because I can stay upright a lot easier and not have it affect me. If I get kicked hard, I want to be able to react quickly, not be sitting there in agony because it just hit bone, haha. I think it's a mistake of a lot of martial artists to be TOO skinny, assuming skill alone can overcome all physical disadvantages, which it can't -- that's why boxers don't box people way out of their class. I've seen 6' tall martial artists (or taller) fight 5'8" or shorter martial artists and it's almost always advantage to the taller, meatier guy, because their kicks simply hurt more, so they're able to wear down the other person faster.
The only time I saw where this didn't hold true of equal belted opponents was in a 2nd degree black belt fight at a competition, it was totally awesome. The taller guy, who had about 6-7 inches on the shorter dude, was winning easily for about 70% of the fight. He was landing a lot more kicks, really looked like he was the dominating fighter. But he made one critical mistake. He moved in when his opponent was set in the perfect stance, then the shorter guy, crouched in his fighting stance, threw a strong back kick moving upwards into the chest guard of the taller guy, which was wide open, and the blow hit right on the lower ribs, probably breaking a few, I don't know what happened ultimately to that guy but I know he went down immediately, screaming in agony, like everyone in the entire place could hear it and it was one of the last fights of the day. He got up about 7 seconds later, trying to say he was ok and to fight, but then he fell back over and the ref called the fight -- winner by KO to the small guy! It was awesome. He didn't win the fight as a whole, I mean in a blow-for-blow type of way, but he won resoundingly on ONE excellent, perfect back kick to the most vulnerable spot on his opponent. A lot of the masters were saying it was one of the best back kicks they had ever seen, haha, it was so awesome.
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