Many people come to me for advice and a lot of the time it is because of the disappointment in their slow gains from training. Hitting the weights with no food or some kind of supplementation is like driving a 4 litre vehicle with an empty tank on the motorway ‘you’re not gonna get very far’ if anywhere at all.
Immediately after training: 2 scoops of PhD Recovery 2:1. The name speaks for itself, RECOVERY! What more do you need than the right level of carbs, protein, L-Glutamine, BCAA’s and Creatine to replenish and sustain muscle growth from all the hard work and time you have put in. Recovery 2:1 is the best value money can buy and probably one of my top five favourite products in the PhD range. Because Recovery 2:1 is so comprehensive, I stop there, I don’t need anything else. I make sure that my second post workout meal comes in solid form about 90 minutes after my Recovery 2:1 serving. Typically this meal will be chicken and rice or Fish and rice.
DEMAND PERFECTION
The same goes for post workout. Many people don’t understand the major importance of it and train for hours in the gym, then eat a chocolate bar because they either feel they deserve it or they are in a depleted level of energy and need replenishment fast. Ignoring the signs of depletion or starving muscles is like working an entire month for your wages, and then when you are finally paid, you take it to a betting shop and lose it all. You’re basically making a gamble as to how much muscle gain you will achieve and in all honesty you’d be heading in the opposite direction unless you take action. So here’s how I do it after training:
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