2 questions
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 10:11 pm
Hey everyone! I'm new here. I ran across the site Monday night, read the main page and then slapped my forehead, said "Of course!!!" and started Tuesday morning.
I need to lose about 60 pounds. I am in decent shape despite that and started strength training a few weeks ago. I then hurt my knee on vacation and had to take a break but my plan is olympic weightlifting training 2x a week and crossfit 1x a week. May not work out that way every week because of work and kids but I'm in love with barbells and heavy lifting so there you go. Both crossfit and weightlifting are intense but scaled to meet you where you are.
At any rate - I do the weightlifting at about 8 am and eat breakfast at 6:30, that seems to work well. I eat lunch after Crossfit but do better if I have a little protein like greek yogurt before class. I also understand you should have protein after heavy lifting so that would put me at needing something about 9:30 on weightlifting days.
How do others handle things like this? Vanilla No-S appeals to me because it just makes sense, I don't want to start introducing exceptions to confuse myself right away. But at the same time I want to make sure I fuel my ability to lift as I build strength.
I need to lose about 60 pounds. I am in decent shape despite that and started strength training a few weeks ago. I then hurt my knee on vacation and had to take a break but my plan is olympic weightlifting training 2x a week and crossfit 1x a week. May not work out that way every week because of work and kids but I'm in love with barbells and heavy lifting so there you go. Both crossfit and weightlifting are intense but scaled to meet you where you are.
At any rate - I do the weightlifting at about 8 am and eat breakfast at 6:30, that seems to work well. I eat lunch after Crossfit but do better if I have a little protein like greek yogurt before class. I also understand you should have protein after heavy lifting so that would put me at needing something about 9:30 on weightlifting days.
How do others handle things like this? Vanilla No-S appeals to me because it just makes sense, I don't want to start introducing exceptions to confuse myself right away. But at the same time I want to make sure I fuel my ability to lift as I build strength.