Shaq

[Glade]

Shaq

I was wondering something. With as much as you travel how in the hell do you eat well?
Seriously even if I had a decent perdium-sp? and ate out all the time I would get sick to death of restaurant food. Even the nicest steak houses would get old to me.
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[juiced2damax]

I was wondering something. With as much as you travel how in the hell do you eat well?
Seriously even if I had a decent perdium-sp? and ate out all the time I would get sick to death of restaurant food. Even the nicest steak houses would get old to me.
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I simply wonder how the hell you keep on your pre-contest diet with traveling and everything else going on in your life...Great freakin job holding it all together!

 

[Need2Lift]

I have posed this question before, and I believe he responded that it's actually easier for him to diet while traveling. It kills me though, as I find it extremely difficult to keep the diet and training in check while living from a hotel.

 

[shaqdeezl]

Too easy. Homewood Suites or Residence Inn have stocked kitchens. Buy everything for the week when you hit town, store in the fridge, and cook every night.

Don't eat downstairs for breakfast. Cook real eggs in the room or oats with protein powder and skim milk.

Fruits and veggies or a shake between meals. Bags of tuna are cheap and extremely easy to carry around. Take a fork from breakfast downstairs and throw 2-3 tunas into whatever you're carrying.

If you go out order a la carte. I have yet to go to a place that won't do that for me. Almost always fish is the night's special because it won't keep as long. I order the special with an 8 oz filet on the side (I've never paid more than six additional dollars for a filet - can you believe that?) and double veggies vice rice or potato. If we go somewhere nice I order a chicken breast, filet, and a salad with dressing on the side.

Airports suck ass. I always bring along a handful of protein bars. They will make you fat but it's a hell of a lot better than eating that shit being served in the airport.

I eat best on the road. It's entirely too easy.

 

[shaqdeezl]

Training is also best for me while traveling. I no longer lose 2 hours to commuting. I can easily get a couple of extra hours of sleep a night and still get up first thing for cardio. I always hit the gym every evening. Then when I get back to the hotel I'll do more cardio and still have time to prep for the next day. What else do I have to do?

Way easy.

 

[Need2Lift]

Homewood Suites is definitely the way to go if there is one nearby. My problem is, I'm usually travelling with at least one other person, so the "what else do I have to do" is the problem b/c the other/s is/are damn sure hitting a restaurant and a bar at the end of the day. That's when the "how bad do you really want it" factor comes into play.

 

[shaqdeezl]

Homewood Suites is definitely the way to go if there is one nearby. My problem is, I'm usually travelling with at least one other person, so the "what else do I have to do" is the problem b/c the other/s is/are damn sure hitting a restaurant and a bar at the end of the day. That's when the "how bad do you really want it" factor comes into play.

I routinely travel with 10 dudes. All of them hit the bar at the end of the day. Not me. I go lift. I'm usually anti-social anyway. Plus, I just spent 8-12 hours with them. Why do I want to go drink with them?