Edgar recently asked me about athlete’s diet that would also help him to cure his acne.
So my question is can you give me an example nutrition plan for me as an athlete. Like what should I be eating for breakfast/lunch/dinner. Or like what type of meat I should eat or foods that will give me enough energy as an athlete while still helping my health, building muscle, and avoiding triggering my acne. I mean like foods that give me energy and help me recover, but the foods that arent bad for triggering my acne.
I have to go by what I’ve learned from Dr. Graham here. If anyone, he should know the subject. Lifetime athlete, coach to many Olympic and world-class athletes and at age of 60+ fitter than most people half his age.
Plus what he says makes a heck of a lot sense.
As an athlete you don’t have any special nutritional requirements. You just need to eat more.
Athletes and active people have somewhat higher protein requirements than sedentary people do, but you’ll get the extra protein from the extra calories you eat.
The same healthy low-fat, raw-vegan diet that gets you clear also helps you as an athlete. In a nutshell, get plenty of fruits and greens.
No need to unnecessarily complicate the matter.
Contrary to commonly held wisdom this diet suits also bodybuilders. Because all the bodybuilding magazines and books tout the need for high-protein diet you won’t find too many examples of bodybuilders eating this diet, but Charlie Abel is one.
Though I have to say that a diet in animal protein probably gives better ‘results’ for bodybuilders. That’s because it exposes you to extra growth hormones. So it could get you bigger but that’s really just artificial ballooning. It’s a bit like blowing more air into a balloon.
Gaining size that way does nothing to your athletic performance. It won’t make you any stronger or faster. You just balloon up, and once you stop eating that way you’ll shrink back to more normal size. And in the process you’ll wreck your health and make it more difficult to get over acne.
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November 17th, 2008 at 10:12 am
[…] Your metabolic speed, or total calorie requirements, doesn’t determine the types of foods you should eat. It only determines how much you should eat them. A person eating 4000 calories a day doesn’t need different foods than a person eating 2000 calories a day. He/she just needs to eat more food. I talked about this in a post titled Acne and athelete’s diet. […]