AITank: Fitness Explained

I have to tell everyone about this page because no matter who you are, it will help you make ridiculously easy and unbelievably good food. Mind you, CHEAP. The Pioneer Woman Cooks is brilliant! Their are countless recipes to choose from and everything is made so simple and easy to follow that you would have to be a little sore round the grey bits in your head to not produce what the recipes show.

Ree as the author calls herself, is a “desperate housewife. I love to cook delicious, abundant, satisfying food using the simplest of ingredients.” Where have you been all my life?!?! Everything from the lasagna to the chocolate sheet cake is superb. She provides amazing pictures for each step of the process so if something does not look right you will be able to figure it out soon enough. But really, take some time to browse around the offerings she has posted for us all. In college and need help keeping variety in your diet on a short wallet, this is your answer. Get home late and still need to whip something up for yourself before bed but do not want microwave tv dishes, this is your answer.

Nothing is overly flamboyant, there is no black truffles, no fruits from Rangoon or flour made in some small province in Italy. Just stuff you can find easily, make easily, and enjoy immensely.

Tell me what your favorite recipe is. Always looking to try new ones!

Don’t gulp down a huge meal right before a workout.

So it’s about 9 pm, and the gym closes at 10:30. I still haven’t eaten and my mom has cooked some sausages and she wants to know if I’d rather eat before or after my workout. They smelled so good that I decided to eat them before.

Let’s just say pausing multiple times in the middle of sets to burp isn’t exactly beneficial to your lifts.

If you are like me and still in school, then eating right is slightly harder for most of us because we either do not have the time to cook large meals or are restricted by a cash flow that well… might not exist. This does not mean that you cannot eat well, you just have to be more selective on what you buy. Or if you have access to a cafeteria or some sort of meal plan, pick the most nutrient dense foods you can to maximize your intake of protein/carbs/fats. Let’s take a look at some healthy choices.

Eggs are a staple of the hard eating college student. One will not do much for you so you will have to pick up a couple. At most eat 2 to 3 yolks and up to 7 whites to go with it. So lets say 3 whole eggs and four extra whites. The yolks are packed with calories and cholesterol which is why we want to limit how many we eat. To make your life easie look for hardboiled eggs so that you can separate the two parts easier. Slice them and throw them down or crumble one or two over a mixed salad with some light dressing. It makes for a good lean meal packed full of protein and calories.

Next is chicken breasts. Always opt for chicken over burgers at the cafeteria as the meat they use for the burgers is most likely anything but lean, giving you more fat than you would otherwise want.

It is 5:30 in the morning and the sun has yet to come up over the city. The wheels on this plan of mine have been set in motion and that means I have to feed the animal growing inside. A bowl of Bob’s Red Mill oatmeal, 4 egg whites and 2 yolks scrambled in olive oil, two slices of toast, a cup of yogurt and a tall glass of milk. Yah that sounds good; a meal that will stick to my ribs as my mom used to say and provide all the energy I need and then some for the morning workout. Clean carbs and some good protein thrown into the mix, oh and some good fats as well. Take my AST MultiPro vitamin and I am primed, ready to get under the iron. Contrary to what many believe, you cannot accomplish anything really without feeding yourself properly. Can’t lose weight, gain muscle, be mentally alert - nothing. That is of course unless you are in a state of ketosis and your body has rewired itself to operate in the most primal of survival modes. Want to lose weight, well listen here; there is no magic diet, there is no magic pill. If you have a medical condition that causes you to be over or under weight then that is a matter all unto itself. But for the rest of the people out there that are constantly looking for this lazy man’s out, you are not going to find it.