Leg Training Q

[Roofer1]

What does "fruits and veggies" mean calorically? As in, how many carbohydrates are you consuming?

If you are undereating your performance is going to be garbage. I know it's all the rage to be low carb now, but I don't know how people physically do it. With a normal summer training schedule I'm at 350-400g of carbs a day, hunting I will go even higher. If I'm car camping 600-700g a day is happening. And I weigh 185-190, you weigh 230-235.....

Getting into the weeds a bit, but a LONG time ago I smashed my face and had my jaw wired shut for 7 weeks. Did the best I could to get calories in but wound up losing about 35 #'s in that time. Since then, my metabolism has been a huge struggle. All that said, from trial an error my maintenance is about 2600 calories with zero training at my current weight. So on none training days its about 270 grams of carbs, training days I'll bump that to anywhere between 350 and 450. Carbs are usually apples, blueberries, bananas, steel cut oats, watermelon and jasmine rice. For whatever reason alot of veggies seem to give me intestinal grief so that's usually limited to cucumbers and asparagus. Also, I'm not a saint. Was my wife's birthday last week so I had a piece of cake

 

[S.Clancy]

Getting into the weeds a bit, but a LONG time ago I smashed my face and had my jaw wired shut for 7 weeks. Did the best I could to get calories in but wound up losing about 35 #'s in that time. Since then, my metabolism has been a huge struggle. All that said, from trial an error my maintenance is about 2600 calories with zero training at my current weight. So on none training days its about 270 grams of carbs, training days I'll bump that to anywhere between 350 and 450. Carbs are usually apples, blueberries, bananas, steel cut oats, watermelon and jasmine rice. For whatever reason alot of veggies seem to give me intestinal grief so that's usually limited to cucumbers and asparagus. Also, I'm not a saint. Was my wife's birthday last week so I had a piece of cake

If it were me in your position I would be throwing in some simple carbs on training days, like 50-100g.

It's pretty crazy that you eat that little calories while being heavier and exercising that amount.

 

[Roofer1]

appreciate the input from everyone. past couple weekends I've done some longer hikes on both days back to back. Still doing one shorter one with increased pack weight during the week. Have dropped the lifting to deadlift/bench on day and squat OH press on another day. low reps high weights. Don't like 2 major lifts on one day but am pretty much skipping any accessory stuff except maybe some pull ups or pushups.

 

[Roofer1]

If it were me in your position I would be throwing in some simple carbs on training days, like 50-100g.

It's pretty crazy that you eat that little calories while being heavier and exercising that amount.

Yep. I'm a fat kid at heart so "some" turn into a hole bag of sour patch kids in a hurry . After the jaw/weightless thing I've bounced up and down a lot over the years trying to figure out where I needed to be for eating. What I'm doing seems to keep my weight pretty stable over time.

 

[justinspicher]

Is your coffee hot? If so, what protein powder? I tried this one time in the past with our powder and it congealed like cottage cheese. It didn't taste bad but I don't enjoy my coffee with a spoon.

I use 6star whey protein and add creamer to it. It gets mixed with an electric mixer so I feel fancy.