8/11/10

So today is an off day, and i honestly have nothing to do. Ty gave me this marketing/advertising project dealing with the new CrossFit stuff we're going to be making, but its very tedious so i'll just wait until later to do it.
But as of right now, i've been looking at upcoming strongman contests to compete in, especially anything about NAS teen nationals in 2011.

Along with that research, i've stumbled upon Carlos Reyes, this years winner, and his training log prior to his win. With this, i'm going to try to write a new training plan since i won't be able to train with Ty after school starts, since he lifts at 2 and i don't get out til 2:20. But it seems like the general consensus with strongman training is to do all of your events on one day. Carlos does it, and so does Don Pope. If it's good enough for the lightweight teen national champ and a world's strongest man placer, then it's definitely good enough for me. I'm not exactly sure what days i'm going to be doing my events, or what events i should even do because i don't know what contest im doing next. Aside from my event days, carlos focuses on oly lifting, compared to don pope with powerlifting. both have their benefits, with oly you get explosiveness, but with powerlifting you get flat out strong. I'm gonna have to test each out for a little while, but i really like the idea of being able to do a heavy max effort powerlift, then not have to worry about doing stones or some other daunting task after that.

As for my diet, i'm going to be following a parillo-style diet that i read about in "Purposeful Primitive" by Marty Gallagher, which is a really great book. It's the whole high metabolism, 7 meals a day sort of thing. I'm looking to keep all my muscle, as well as get stronger too, all while dieting slowly down to 200 lbs. and 10% body fat. I'm going to be eating 7 meals daily, 3 main meals, with 3 meals of supplements plus a little extra. It'll look a little something like this:

8 a.m.- Wake up, eat approx. 20g of Protein, Multivitamin, 2 fish oil capsules
8:30 a.m.- Cardio (either running or bike riding, mileage will increase)
9 a.m.- 4 eggs (w/ milk; scrambled), 2 slices wheat toast with jelly, 3/4 cup fruit and nut granola, banana
12 p.m.- 40g whey protein shake (milk, frozen strawberries, and oats), 1/2 cup almonds, 50mg zinc, 500 mg Vitamin C
2 p.m.- Train
3-3:30- Post workout Smartbomb shake (30g protein, 70g carbs, plus amino acids)
4 p.m.- chicken breast, 1 cup rice, mixed salad w/ ranch
6 p.m.- 20g whey protein, apple, 50 mg zinc, 500 mg vitamin C
7 p.m.- 6-8oz lean beef, small bowl of pasta, vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, etc.)
10 p.m.- 20g whey protein, 1/2 cup oatmeal w/ 1 cup milk, 2 fish oil capsules

This is a rough draft of my diet for the next couple weeks, all the time will be move up 2 hours or so once school starts, as well as training being moved back. But overall i feel like i'm gonna get good results with this diet.

That's all for now, I'll post tomorrow after my deadlift session.