BCAA Boost

[hardbody04]

Well i got all my trueprotien supplies i ordered....got the sample pack so i could try the flavors some WMS and BCAA.....

Question on the BCAA are you guys using it pre work out and pre cardio or just cardio or what?

Also it says two scoops is that what you are using the standard power scoops? seems like you would go through that bottle real quick with that?

Thanks

HB04

 

[Markoni321]

pre workout and post workout same with cardio

 

[Eze]

Well i got all my trueprotien supplies i ordered....got the sample pack so i could try the flavors some WMS and BCAA.....

Question on the BCAA are you guys using it pre work out and pre cardio or just cardio or what?

Also it says two scoops is that what you are using the standard power scoops? seems like you would go through that bottle real quick with that?

Thanks

HB04

If you do morning cardio I would definitely use this before.

As for your workouts it can't hurt to use it before each workout as well, but if I had to choose one or the other I would use it pre cardio

 

[Suareezay]

If you do morning cardio I would definitely use this before.

As for your workouts it can't hurt to use it before each workout as well, but if I had to choose one or the other I would use it pre cardio

i really have to question the validity of BCAAs before fasted cardio.

1. BCAAs are hyper-insulinogenic
2. if youre eating large amounts of slow digesting protein like casein, beef, chicken, etc before bed, youll still have ample amounts of aminos in your blood when youre doing cardio anyway.

I know people use them successfully in this scenario, but whether its optimal, or necesarry, eh probably not. a good dose around workouts (not so much because of the BCAAs, but caffeine, creatine, etc) would be more optimal IMO.

FWIW, i, as well as plenty of others, are following an intermittent fasting protocol (for fatloss) which calls for cardio sometime during a 16hour fast. I have been doing my cardio after 15 hours of a fast to no ill effect - bodyweight is dropping at a steady rate of 1lb/week, and I have been making significant increases in strength in almost all exercises (even at lower total bodyweight) every workout. good genetics also plays no part in this, as i dont have them body composition-wise.

 

[Eze]

No magic solution.

As for myself, I don't do cardio fat loss. I hit the high intensity stuff to get my HR up and keep my BP in check.

What's this diet you are doing????

 

[Suareezay]

No magic solution.

As for myself, I don't do cardio fat loss. I hit the high intensity stuff to get my HR up and keep my BP in check.

What's this diet you are doing????

yea.

i do low intensity cardio. the boring kind.

Intermittent Fasting. Another not magical solution, but it has made my life 100x easier, and keeps my diet interesting. This has been my most successful bf-losing phase ever, and when the time comes i expect my bulking phase to go just as well.

http://www.fatlosstroubleshoot.com/if.html

 

[adidamps2]

yea.

i do low intensity cardio. the boring kind.

Intermittent Fasting. Another not magical solution, but it has made my life 100x easier, and keeps my diet interesting. This has been my most successful bf-losing phase ever, and when the time comes i expect my bulking phase to go just as well.

http://www.fatlosstroubleshoot.com/if.html

DEF a good read there.

 

[Eze]

yea.

i do low intensity cardio. the boring kind.

Intermittent Fasting. Another not magical solution, but it has made my life 100x easier, and keeps my diet interesting. This has been my most successful bf-losing phase ever, and when the time comes i expect my bulking phase to go just as well.

http://www.fatlosstroubleshoot.com/if.html

What does your typical diet look like on this?

 

[Suareezay]

What does your typical diet look like on this?

Training days:
PWO is a shake w/ protein and gatorade powder and a bagel
Then when i get home I have a box of cereal with 4 cups skim milk. Lately ive been doing low fat ice cream with my cereal. Really any high carb low fat junk is fair game during this time.
Within the next 7-8 hours ive been doing pasta marinara with shrimp and veggies, oatmeal with apples cooked in, a tuna melt sandwhich concoction, banana sandwiches with a little peanut butter, sweet potatos with chicken and veggies - basically anything high carb, moderate protien, low fat.
I finish the refeed with a cup of cottage cheese.
I end up with maintenence calories + 25% which comes to 3,500-3,600 calories, all consumed within 8 hours.

Off days (cardio days)
Mostly protein, a lot of whole rotiserre chickens, veggies, a few whole eggs less than 100g carbs, 30-40g fat.
I eat this in 3 meals throughout the 8 hour feeding window
Somewhere between 1200-1500 calories

This is basically the diet that Martin Berkhan, the guy interviewed in the previous link i posted, ate during his initial trial while putting IF together. He has all his info laid out in posts over at BodyRecomposition.com

Basically this allows me to skip breakfast and lunch and all the other OCD BBer meals in between, get shit done during the day without worrying about multiple feedings, and then eat everything when i get home from school/work, etc. Hunger is a non issue, and mental clarity/focus has improved greatly - which is the case with pretty much everyone who has given this a run.