Mainsite Wod: 1-1-1-1-1-1-1
I'm beginning to have doubts about the mainsite wods. This is now the second time in one week where I've been concerned that the programming doesn't allow for sufficient rest from a particular movement. The hero wod from Saturday was intended to be a pretty heavy load of push jerks (3 rounds of 5 reps), and two days later they're programming 1 rep maxes on clean and jerks. My shoulder was feeling pretty raw from Saturdays hero wod so I took extra precautions in warming up and stretching today. Here's what I got:
135-145-155-165-175-185 (cleaned it, couldn't jerk it <insert penis joke, ricci>), and then finished with a final set of 175. I was pretty happy with jerking 175 (until I saw the girl on the mainsite video clean and jerk 190). A few weeks ago on the open wod that had 165 pound jerks, I couldn't put 165 over my head. Also, I'm pretty sure that the 185 clean matches my PR and I felt like I could've cleaned more except it wasn't worth trying because I couldn't jerk more than 175 tonight.
The past month I've just been drinking 8 ounces of milk as my post-workout protein, but I saw in Men's Health Magazine a few days ago that it takes 17 ounces of milk to fully repair muscles after a workout. Since I haven't drank 17 ounces of milk in one sitting since Milk Pong with Logan, I decided to start on the whey protein again. You guys have any recs for whey protein? I'm tempted to pay a lot of money for progenex because that's what RFjr uses. Historically, I've just used the chocolate gnc brand whey protein which tastes pretty good. Obviously muscle milk protein is fucking delicious but I heard it causes cancer or some shit. Anyway, lemme know what you bros use. Peace.
So honestly I wouldn't trust a statement that's so arbitrary. I mean, 17oz milk will have about 15g protein in it. That's a tiny amount. If you're lifting heavy the general consensus is about 1g per lb bodyweight. So you're looking at something like 150-200g per day (if you're a normal sized human; guess I've never met you :)).
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, to get that you really have to supplement (unless you want to eat 2lb chicken breast every day). I think truepnutrition is pretty good (you can make your custom mix) and is very cheap compared to basically anything else. I honestly have never really cared about the branding on whey protein powders. They all are basically the same, and I haven't ever run into problems. I just get whatever's on sale pretty much.
Progenex is the biggest ripoff ever. It's basically whey + some bcaas. Don't believe all their marketing about how awesomely micronized and shit their protein is. It really doesn't matter. In fact, you can build the exact same thing on truenutrition for like...25% the cost.
If you do go on truenutrition, I suggest something like 90% whey, 5% creatine, 5% bcaa.
wtf, just eat 2lbs of chicken.
ReplyDeletemainsite programming certainly isnt the end all be all - just like men's health shouldn't be the end all be all for your nutrition information.
ReplyDeletecheck these out
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/muscle-gain/muscle-growth-and-pos-workout-nutrition.html
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/muscle-gain/macronutrient-intake-for-mass-gains-qa.html
RFjr drinks a lot of Progenex because he gets it for free/probably gets paid to drink it. Though there are plenty of people in the CF community that swear by it. The last month I've significantly upped my volume and feel pretty good with upping my food/protein intake and sleeping 8+ hours every night (9 hrs last night, which was awesome).