5 UNHEALTHY, HEART-CLOGGING, DELICIOUS POST-WORKOUT MEALS

BroScienceLife’s relatable YouTube video “Emergency Muscle Meals”, inspired me to write this post.

When you’re wrapping up your workout at the gym, and you feel the swoleness pumping through your veins, your next thought might be, “What the hell am I gonna eat?”.

The post-workout meal can be best compared to saving a videogame. That protein afterwards will save your progress, help you recover, and improve your gains.  Any experienced bodybuilder will tell you it is absolutely important to eat within an hour after your workout.

This blog post is dedicated to those days you didn’t have food in the house, but you had to eat something… QUICK.. Let me make it clear that I don’t think any of these foods I am about to list are healthy. Some days I like to reward myself, and as a recreational bodybuilder with a few cheat days to spare, there are some artery-clogging, protein-filled meals I consume.

1. McDonalds:   McDoubles and McChickens

My best friend and I have been lifting for years. We’re both big guys in the gym, and we take lifting seriously. While keeping our lifting schedules dear to our hearts, we also highly value our protein consumption. We have spent a lot of quality bro time inhaling McDoubles and McChickens after lifts. For $4 you can get 4 cardboard burgers that supposedly have a lot of protein. I continue to get bigger, so Mickey Dees hasn’t failed me yet.

Just don’t eat that junk more than twice a week! (And you have to earn it)

2. Chic-Fil-A  12 Piece Nuggets and Chicken Sandwich

I hear they have good fries. I don’t eat fries. I never willingly eat fries anywhere, ever. I’ve maybe tried a waffle fry here once…. by accident.

In college, we had good ol’ Chic on campus. After the gym some days, I’d walk over to Chic Fil A and get 2 12-piece nuggets and a chicken sandwich. I would eat all of this, and chug a chocolate protein shake. I saw good results from this, so I kept at it. I graduated in May 2014 and haven’t had it since (but it worked for me).

3. Wendy’s   Triple Baconator

I could only manage to eat this behemoth maybe 5 times in my college career. It was always very easy to eat, and absolutely delicious, but it just made me feel like death. I always felt oddly satisfied though, so whether or not my muscles benefited remains a mystery.

3 words: Greasy, Disappointing Mistake……….. But I’m not done with it yet. 4+ layers of “beef” still attracts my 22% careless brain.

4. Mexican Chains (Taco Bell, Chipotle, etc.)    Burritos and Burrito Bowls

Some people will be offended that I included Taco Bell and Chipotle in the same category, but I honestly don’t care. I consider taco bell burritos to be below McDonalds as a post-workout protein meal. Teebs still delivers my muscles the protein they need.

I enjoy eating at California Tortilla. It’s basically like Chipotle, but without all the high-schoolers and white girls making the lines long with their Instagram photoshoots. Burritos and burrito bowls are jammed with some pretty good protein. My body approves.

5. Grocery Store Rotisserie Chicken

This is a chicken, not a greasy microwaved burger, so I don’t classify this to be as unhealthy as those others.

Most grocery stores have them. As long as you don’t question why these bad boys are dirt cheap, you should enjoy them as an excellent source of post-workout protein. I can get them for like $6-8 at my local grocery store, so they’re pretty quick and cheap. I eat the whole thing. There is nothing more satisfying than saying, “I ate a whole chicken today”.

Thanks for reading! Have a great week! 🙂

@Supplehints

Movies That Would Pump Anyone Up To Lift

A brief post

Here’s a list of my top 3 movies that pump me up to go lift

1. Thor

It only makes sense that such a movie would make people want to lift. Thor, (played by Chris Hemsworth), is a pretty beefy dude, and he destroys everything.  I will actually watch the movie whenever I feel lazy, and it will pump me up to get to the gym and work on getting those meatloaf pecs.

2. Fight Club

This movie makes me want to get huge and punch something.

3. 300

The movie is centered around the idea of bodybuilding. It involves 300 soldiers who fight with strength, opposed to machinery. Halloween 2012 I actually dressed up as a spartan and spent that September and October on creatine, while cutting and doing nonstop ab workouts.

Now that I think about it, most super hero movies would be in my top 10. I guess bodybuilding is the closest you can get to having super powers.

The 5 Most Annoying Things to Find In A Gym

Putting supplements aside, I decided it was time to post a personal list of things/people that annoy me at the gym. Enjoy!

1. PERFUME

Exactly as it sounds. If I smell perfume or cologne in the gym, it just pisses me off. The only thing I should be smelling in the gym is sweat, pain, and mild body odor mixed with deodorant. On the opposite side of the spectrum, if you’re not wearing deodorant, you should leave with the fancy scented people.

2. GRUNTERS

These are the people that find it necessary to make loud animal sounds on most or every repetition of their set. I only get angry at certain grunters. Lifters are allowed to grunt occasionally, but they have to earn it. If a man is big in the gym and looks like he has been lifting for a long time, it is exceptional. I don’t want to hear a grunt noise, and look over to see it’s coming from noodle-arm boy.

3. SITTERS & TALKERS

These are the punks that sit on the bench or any machine that you want to use and are taking their sweet time. They can either be talking to someone, fidgeting with their phones, or taking pictures. Someone is a sitter if they take a significantly larger than reasonable rest time between sets doing stupid shit.

4. CHECKERS

These are the tools that go to the gym and are constantly lifting up their shirts or flexing. It’s okay to lift up your shirt once or twice on ab day, or sneak a flex in on arm day, but don’t make it obvious. Flexing at the gym is just shameful even for the big dogs.

5. THE WALKING TREAD

It’s very typical for people to go on treadmills and do a power walk session. I generally try to get some quick high pace cardio in after my workout, and I am always annoyed when all the treadmills are taken and not a single person is running. Unless there is significant incline with a good pace, I don’t understand why people get gym memberships to walk on a machine. When I’m in the mood to run, it can easily be turned off when I see a bunch of walkers taking my machines.

These are just the top 5 that come to my head at the moment. If you have any other suggestions on what pisses you off at the gym, feel free to comment!

Until next time, don’t be any of these people…. please.

Does Bodybuilding on Creatine count as Natural?

There are many different takes on what natural bodybuilding is. Some people say natural bodybuilding is with the absence of all supplements, and some say it’s anything but steroids.

I say natural bodybuilding is basically anything but steroids; however, I have nothing against steroid users, for a few reasons:

1. It’s a free world
2. Most of them bust their asses in the gym (it’s not like they sit on the couch all day eating pizza, setting down their milkshake to inject the drug before nap time)

What I hate more than anything in the world is when I’m on creatine and my friends say I’m only big because of creatine. It happens all the time. As if my arms would turn into wet noodles when the phase is over. It can be a month or two of me being off creatine and these crazy people will still pull that card out on me.

Because of the lack of knowledge people have on creatine, I have decided to write a brief post spilling some details on it.

Before this brief post, I will first say that creatine alone will not make it easier for you to become big man on campus. It requires just as much gym effort if not more.

Creatine is one of the most explosive legal supplements on the market. It has been used by professional athletes and bodybuilders since the early 90’s. It is something that our bodies naturally produce, and it helps bump an extra few reps at the gym.

Creatine is basically a substance that brings water into your muscle cells allowing you to have fast recovery. You generally gain 2 to 4 pounds of water weight, and anything after that is more than likely muscle mass. Because you have this advantage of protein synthesis, you can bust out more reps and lift heavier weights. This increase in strength leads to an increase in muscle mass that you will retain after the phase.

I find it to be a natural supplement because

1. It’s a legal, non-addictive drug that will not lead to beating women
2. It’s something the body naturally produces
3. At least 75% of the gains are retained when off the substance
4. It is a convenient way to beat a plateau

This was just my short spiel on the supplement. I actually wrote this post because it is almost time for Big Jack to phase into creatine again.  If you want some more information on creatine check out this useful article from Men’s Health:

http://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/creatine-side-effects-what-it-what-it-does