Are You Ready?

Danny, how many grams of protein, carbs, and fat should I eat each day?  Oh, and do you think I should be carb cycling?  And when it comes to my weight training, do you think I should use the pre-fatigue or post-fatigue method? 

These are the type of questions I get from people all the time.  While I’m flattered that my opinion matters to them, more often than not this person is not ready to even worry about this stuff.  What do I mean by this?  Well, most people don’t come even close to taking care of the basics.  I don’t really care if you are eating 175 grams versus 183 grams of protein per day if you not doing the following….

-supplementing with fish oil

-drinking your green tea daily

-drinking approximately half of your body weight in ounces of water per day (i.e. you weigh190 lbs so you drink ~ 95 ounces of water per day)

-preparing your meals in advance so you are never find yourself absolutely starving, which will make you more susceptible to binging.  I consider myself a pretty disciplined person, but if my blood sugar is dropping  fast and I’m starting to get that, “kill me know” feeling, I’m going to find myself pulling in to the nearest pizza joint yelling… GIVE ME SOME PEPPERONI, NOW!

There you go, take in about 2-3 grams (minimum) of combined DHA/EPA per day from your fish oil supplement.  So, if you read the label on the back of your bottle and it says, “DHA – 200 mg; EPA – 300 mg per softgel,” then you would have to take 6 per day to get 3 grams of combined DHA/EPA (500 mg X 6 = 3000 mg, Or 3 grams).

Get at least one serving of green tea per day.

Drink mucho agua.

Prepare your meals in advance, store it in a glass container, bring it to work and eat the “leftovers” there.

4 tips that anyone can incorporate without killing themself.  Just takes a little prep.  Before you know it, it will become a habit and a lifestyle.

Do all of the above day-in, day-out, then we can talk about advanced training methods.  And we can talk about whether or not carb-cycling would be a good choice for you.  And we talk about the best game show of all time.  Wait, we can talk about that even if you are not drinking green tea.  The answer to that is obviously the Family Feud.

Halftime of the Nuggets/Jazz game is approaching, so I’m off to do some cooking (seriously I am, I’m not just saying that…I promise).  I hope you follow these simple life-changing tips and then a few weeks later hit me up with, “Danny, I’ve been doing “extended-5s” for the past 3 weeks and my gunz are getting hyooge!  If I switch over to “classic clusters” do you think the chicks will be all over me?”

Umm, I like the classic cluster, but even that training method won’t save you.  Let’s start off by unrolling your pants, and go from there…