FAO RB - Re: "RB's 2009 Training and Nutrition log"

**spud** · 27-01-2009 11:53 AM

Hi RC

what kind of beet juice do you use...homemade or what brand?

also I'm interested to know if you think that the supps your using make a differance? have you had a trial period without any?

**CoN** · 27-01-2009 01:00 PM

RC

you know you can lock your thread, and continue to update it without anyone posting in it

**Ripped Barbarian** · 27-01-2009 02:43 PM

Spud, i use 'james white' organic beetroot juice, i get it from sainsburys.

It's £2.43 for 750ml and is delicious!

It's 90% beetroot juice (not from concentrate) 10% apple juice.

James White Drinks - Makers of really delicious natural drinks - Home

CoN, good idea!

The supplements i use are general sports supplements to improve performance, the zinc and magnesium and taurine keep me relaxed and give better recovery and sleep and the inositol i find is brilliant pre workout, B vits are just general to help with enzymes etc.

My supplement regime isn't strict and i'm working things in as i need them.

**spud** · 27-01-2009 08:10 PM

thanks for starting the thread LH...I should've read from the start!

I'll give that juice a go too RC cheers!

**Ripped Barbarian** · 13-02-2009 10:21 AM

It's concentrated tomato paste that comes in jars from sainsbury, organic of course.

All of the reasons you ask.

-I love the taste of it and it goes well in lots of recipes!
-Provides a good source of potassium for me which is required as i have large doses of other electrolyte minerals.
-Lycopene, i'm getting a hell of a lot, i'll cut back if i start turning orange.

I reckon tomato paste is a better dietary inclusion than fresh or tinned tomatoes because processing increases lycopene availability and reduces alkaloid toxicity and also removes the chance of chewing tomato seeds which are problematic in large amounts (generally ok if you don't chew them, they pass through you)

At 79p for a 312g jar it's good economy too compared to fresh organic tomatoes.

**Ripped Barbarian** · 17-02-2009 08:47 AM

I thought the same when looking at the packaging but corn syrup (unless it states HFCS) is mostly glucose

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Corn syrup is a syrup, made using cornstarch as a feedstock, and composed mainly of glucose. A series of two enzymatic reactions are used to convert the corn starch to corn syrup. Its major uses in commercially-prepared foods are as a thickener, sweetener, and for its moisture-retaining (humectant) properties which keep foods moist and help to maintain freshness.

even if it was HFCS i can't say i'm bothered as part of the rest of my diet, the fact i had just burnt about 800 calories, largely depleted my liver glycogen (which is key to fructose health effects) and the fact i'm going to eat 3 of those bars in my lifetime.

HFCS 50 is no worse than sugar. people pick up on it as a 'bad' ingredient but really it's the large consumption of HFCS such as fizzy drinks that is the problem.

Even if i ate one of those bars a day and it contained a few grams of HFCS it wouldn't really effect my health whatsoever.

HFCS is one of those things i find people 'polarise' as soon as they realise it's 'bad in large amounts' they cut every gram out of their diet.

**hugedyno** · 19-02-2009 11:33 AM

I noticed this entry for 18/02/08:

Deadlifts 3x8x100g.
"I found on the first set i nearly passed out, had tunnel vision and had to lean against the back of my car"

Hardcore!

HD.

**Ripped Barbarian** · 19-02-2009 11:40 AM

Lol it was quite bad.

I train hard and fast, little rest and my deadlifts are bang bang bang, set of 8 is over in about 20 seconds, i think i might have forgotten to breath as well during the first set which was fast.

The second i stood up after the last set my vision started fading towards the centre, good thing my car is a lift back type so i would have slumped on it, if it was a hatchback i would have hit the deck had i passed out.

**coma** · 19-02-2009 11:44 AM

I wondered why I didn't recognise Lyme Regis Fine Foods when I lived there for about 15 years, it's based in Hampshire now! I won't be picking up any of thiose next time I go home then.

**hugedyno** · 19-02-2009 12:17 PM

Keep up the intensity, RC. I've always been inspired by the legendary training of the great runner, Emil Zatopek.

"Zatopek's approach was anything but (conventional). Interval training appealed to him because he found it infinitely variable. He tried hundreds of different combinations of repeats, distances and speeds before he settled on the ones that best suited him. He was willing to experiment with all manner of training. He would run through knee-deep snow in his army boots, he would sprint from telephone pole to telephone pole holding his breath, he would run with his wife, Dana on his shoulders (which resulted in his suffering a hernia condition)!"

HD.