Diet, HIIT, and more

[Whittemore]

I am 18 years old and I recently posted a thread and someone told me to get more protein. Well I work part time at Home Depot and can't really eat every two hours. That reason being I work 8 hour days. I get a small break (15-20 minutes) every two hours, and a lunch break during my 4 hour mark. I do still drink 8-10 bottles of water a day. My problem is every two hours I eat a nutri-grain bar to keep me going throughout the day. But that is not enough protein. For lunch I usually have a ham sandwhich that has no mayo on it, tomatoes and lettuce, with also an apple, a chewy granola bar and maybe a yogurt. Then when I get home from work I eat 1 chicken breast, 1 cup vegie and one baked potato. During my workout (usually after dinner) I eat 1 protein bar (32g) Now, my problem is I need more protein, but it ****ing sucks because of my work. I guess I could buy those cheap 1.00 protein bars with like 15g protein. I don't know I am all to confused.

Also, I also plan on doing my HIIT before I go to work and weightlifting after so I can get the whole 8 hours between the two. Now, I am having trouble finding the HIIT routine on google, seems each site I go to has different things to do. Can someone please send me the basic routine? I am on the MAX-OT lifting routine.

[huknuts]

I dont know so much about the HIIT but if you got a protein shake in there lets say in your breakfeast or in one of your 15 mins breaks i would thinking that would help, as far as working out at night, the general idea is to eat more carbs early morning and more protein later at night to give your body time to burn of the carbs as they are more readily stored as unwanted fat,
Also working out in the morning would probably give your body more time to burn calories since you burn more caolories naturally awake rather than asleep, and rest a tiny bit not as much as a office job though.-keep in mind you still need sleep or you will just be making yourself sore; i learned this the hard way-
as to your breaks you could switch a half or whole penut buteer and bana sandwhich with the nutrigrain bars, and they go down fast, trust me expecially with water there not to heavy to if you have to start moving right after.-unles you put a half a jar of penut butter on-
otherwise your diet seems very clean ignoring the sugars from the nutrigrain bar, how many calories a day are you geting? it doesnt seem very much and from my limited knowledge of HIIT it seems to me you would need way more? unless you are just doing HIIT and not weight training?

[huknuts]

o and if baked potatos get boring try barilla plus pasta its got a whole bunch of good **** in it plus it tastes exatcly like the normal bleached pasta

[Whittemore]

Originally Posted by huknuts

I dont know so much about the HIIT but if you got a protein shake in there lets say in your breakfeast or in one of your 15 mins breaks i would thinking that would help, as far as working out at night, the general idea is to eat more carbs early morning and more protein later at night to give your body time to burn of the carbs as they are more readily stored as unwanted fat,
Also working out in the morning would probably give your body more time to burn calories since you burn more caolories naturally awake rather than asleep, and rest a tiny bit not as much as a office job though.-keep in mind you still need sleep or you will just be making yourself sore; i learned this the hard way-
as to your breaks you could switch a half or whole penut buteer and bana sandwhich with the nutrigrain bars, and they go down fast, trust me expecially with water there not to heavy to if you have to start moving right after.-unles you put a half a jar of penut butter on-
otherwise your diet seems very clean ignoring the sugars from the nutrigrain bar, how many calories a day are you geting? it doesnt seem very much and from my limited knowledge of HIIT it seems to me you would need way more? unless you are just doing HIIT and not weight training?

My goal was to do HIIT in the morning and lifting at night. It wouldn't matter if I switched though.

[NiteHawk]

Can you prepare some meals in advance. Get some tupperware and a cooler and pack some food in them. You can make some roast beef sandwiches, turkey, tuna, etc. This would be better than a granola bar.

Also, my advice is to keep your HIIT cardio seperate from your weightlifting days. I believe doing both is too taxing on the body.

The reason being both weight training and HIIT use glycogen as their primary fuel source and the body's hormonal response is the same with them.

[Whittemore]

But I work out 5 days a week using MAX-OT. I don't know it just doesn't seem enough to only do it twice a week I guess.

[Drew]

i noticed no one put a link to a HIIT routine.

http://www.musclemedia.com/training/hiit.asp

thats the one i use. and its great. but yeah i no wut u mean about finding time to eat every 2-3 hours. i just started a job and when im not doin that im at my church doin sumthin there. its hard man. and im only 15 so schools about to interfere. k well i got kinda off track. but yeah that HIIT routine is good.

[NPayette]

If you do your HIIT in the morning before work, forget your workout at the end of the day. You'll not have the focus nor the power to have a good one. Can you do it reverse? Workout in the morning and HIIT at the end, so you keep having 100% at your workout and you do your max at HIIT.

You'll sleep like a baby at the end.

And for the glycogen argument, anyway in 8 hours (3-4 meals) and some protein supp. You have more then enough time to recover your glycogen to a close to optimal level. (Glutamine in the post wo, may help in case your older).

And for your protein, bring 2 shaker full of protein shake, drink it over 3-4 meal.
That's what I am doing at job.

P.S. : Don't try to do HIIT and Leg training the same day.

[Danimal]

Get yourself some whey protein powder and a shaker cup. Put your individual servings of protein powder in a ziplock bag or small tupperware. On your break just mix up the whey with water and drink it down. Most whey powders are approx 20g protein/serving. I drink 2 servings for 40g of protein. You could also cook extra chicken breast ahead of time and bring those along in tupperware. Baked potatoes also keep well after being cooked. Really it just boils down to being creative and preparing extra food to bring along with you. 15-20 minutes is plenty of time to eat a small meal like a chicken breast and potato, protein shake, cottage cheese and yogurt, or something. I know it can seem like you don't have time, but it's easy once you get the hang of it. A little preparation and planning goes a long way.

Originally Posted by Whittemore

I am 18 years old and I recently posted a thread and someone told me to get more protein. Well I work part time at Home Depot and can't really eat every two hours. That reason being I work 8 hour days. I get a small break (15-20 minutes) every two hours, and a lunch break during my 4 hour mark. I do still drink 8-10 bottles of water a day. My problem is every two hours I eat a nutri-grain bar to keep me going throughout the day. But that is not enough protein. For lunch I usually have a ham sandwhich that has no mayo on it, tomatoes and lettuce, with also an apple, a chewy granola bar and maybe a yogurt. Then when I get home from work I eat 1 chicken breast, 1 cup vegie and one baked potato. During my workout (usually after dinner) I eat 1 protein bar (32g) Now, my problem is I need more protein, but it ****ing sucks because of my work. I guess I could buy those cheap 1.00 protein bars with like 15g protein. I don't know I am all to confused.

Also, I also plan on doing my HIIT before I go to work and weightlifting after so I can get the whole 8 hours between the two. Now, I am having trouble finding the HIIT routine on google, seems each site I go to has different things to do. Can someone please send me the basic routine? I am on the MAX-OT lifting routine.

[NPayette]

Originally Posted by Danimal

... I know it can seem like you don't have time, but it's easy once you get the hang of it. A little preparation and planning goes a long way.

Unless he needs his break to smoke ?

lol

[Whittemore]

Today I lifted in the morning before work and had my 60g chocolate protein shake. Throughout the day I had 9 bottles of water. For breakfast I had two bowls of fruity pebbles, but I am going to start to buy eggs and eat them every morning. For lunch I had ham on rye, thats all on the sandwhich..ham..and rye bread. I had that along with a granola bar and a fruit cup. Two hours later I had 2 nutri-grain bars. After work at 8pm I went home and had 2 breasts of chicken with some corn on the cob (no butter). After that I did my HIIT. I did 5 minutes and it was brutal. I did a lvl 15 on the bike. So on Friday I will do another session of HIIT, but instead of bike I will do the treadmill.

One more question. What is a good multivitamin? I know GNC is a good company but any certain types of multivitamin?

[huknuts]

The way i understand regular multis from lifting ones is if you put alot of strain on your muscles the regular multis dont have enough in them in any case, i use animal pack, im pretty satisfied with it although you shouldent buy it if you cant take alot of pills at once.
im not quite sure if it has any advatages over lets say a gnc mens or even a centrum except your pee is lime green, shokingly similar to the inside of a glowstick (which i love)
if your going to be doing HIIT and workout on the same day you should prob look into glutamine, it does wonders at least for me.
your diet seems very clean except for the fruity pebbles, good job

[Chewie]

Vitamins are micronutrients; you shouldn't need supplements if you eat a balanced and varied diet.

[Whittemore]

Well today I purchased GNC Mega Men Multivitamins. Next week is my week off of training and will try to eat a ****load of protein that week. So I won't bother you guys so much next week with questions.

[NiteHawk]

Originally Posted by Whittemore

Well today I purchased GNC Mega Men Multivitamins. Next week is my week off of training and will try to eat a ****load of protein that week. So I won't bother you guys so much next week with questions.

Hey, I dont mind questions, thats what we are here for. Also, dont forget to keep taking your vitamins on your non-training days as well.