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This has slightly peaked my interest a little.lol.
There's nothing wrong with making a statement like this, and this may work for you, but to help the little less educated here.
Asumming you are man? There are few men at there who can survive on 1300 cals per day, they just can't, the average man is 5.10 tall and has a resting metabolic rate of roughly 1800 cals per day take the rest of the day in account then that roughly 2500 cals.
Now if you hit the gym and cardio fairly hard a good few times week, this in turn will increase your metabolic rate, so you naturally burn more cals, you gain larger muscle mass in turn need more calories, then there's the 1000 or so calories you could burn in the gym session, then suddenly the magic number of 3500 cals come in to play, and you would need that to maintain muscle mass.
Eating towards 3500 cals is easy also, 5 weekabix and milk is 500 cals alone, I would eat that 2-3 before a good session, or perhaps 100 gr of porridge 350 cals, both provide a good source of carbs, which creates energy.
The idea is when you hit the gym you want and need as much energy as possible, that way you make the best gains, I couldn't imagine hitting the gym tired and hungry.
Unfortunately a protein bar or piece of chicken will not fuel a gym session correctly, now that's not to say you do not get through a gym session because obviously your managing it, but carbs is energy food not protein you would typically take protein after a gym session for muscle recovery food.
This may be a techy forum but there are some good folk on here who appear very knowledgeable in the world of fitness and diet, who do appear to know their stuff. |
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