Tomous wrote:Quite keen to improve the protein content in my diet.
What do people have for breakfast in that regard? And are protein shakes worth considering?
Depends how many calories you’ve got to “spend” on your breakfast. I like having a huge dinner so keep things pretty light in the morning.
30-40g oats + teaspoon of honey + 80g frozen blueberries/raspberries
25g whey isolate + 200ml of lactose free milk or almond milk
is my current breakfast and is about 400 calories and 30g protein.
When I’m trying to eat more I’ll have 4 eggs scrambled in butter with two big fat pieces of seeded bread (which is surprisingly high in protein).
Protein shakes are certainly convenient and a good way of getting a quickly digesting protein in with very few calories - something like 20g of protein for 100 calories. I use isolate, which is more expensive than just whey concentrate but digests better and doesn’t give me horrendous wind. Not a huge fan on almond milk but it’s better than mixing it with water and I really can’t handle too much milk.
Oblomov Boblomov wrote:That was years and years ago. I can't OHP at all these days otherwise I get unbearable pain in my neck/upper back for several days. I've experimented with a few techniques etc several times but it always ends the same: as soon as I get anywhere near a decent weight I incur this pain and it is absolutely hideous, mostly because of how long it lasts (usually around a week).
Do you get under the bar as soon as it clears your head? I think it was actually BOH who mentioned it (years ago), but clenching your glutes like crazy also helps loads, both with spinal stability and not cheating by inadvertently bending your knees.
Brian Alsruhe also has a great video on how to improve your OHP - one of the biggest things that helps me is reseting your breath and brace at lockout rather than in the front rack position. Losing that tightness in that position is probably a bit dangerous when you’re not used to it, though, so definitely practice and get comfortable with it at lower weights before going for any PRs.