About 10 years ago, my two sons and I worked out with George Turner as our coach. George was a gruff, ex-Marine in his 60s known all over the world and had many weight lifting awards to his name and wrote for magazines. His nutritional advice used to scare my wife. Essentially, it was a high-protein, low-carb diet.
He told us not to fear fat cause it was good for us. Nor eggs if you worked out cause cholesterol wouldn't stick to anything. If you were hungry, "Eat!!", he would shout at my son who was 100 pounds overweight. "Listen to me cause I'm right!"
This made no sense at all. He told us he used to give talks at the local medical university on nutrition. He complained that doctors were not given enough classes on nutrition and he knew more about it than most of them.
In nine months, all three of us were strong as an ox. My overweight son lost 100 pounds. I lost 40 pounds.
This is common knowledge now it seems on http://reddit.com/r/fitness also look at stronglifts.com
Wish I knew this 20 years ago...
Basically: squats, barbell exercises is key.
Starting strength recommends a gallon of milk a day...
He told us not to fear fat cause it was good for us. Nor eggs if you worked out cause cholesterol wouldn't stick to anything. If you were hungry, "Eat!!", he would shout at my son who was 100 pounds overweight. "Listen to me cause I'm right!"
This made no sense at all. He told us he used to give talks at the local medical university on nutrition. He complained that doctors were not given enough classes on nutrition and he knew more about it than most of them.
In nine months, all three of us were strong as an ox. My overweight son lost 100 pounds. I lost 40 pounds.
George was always right.