Diet and trainning, concise statement.

I thought I could finally post something short, too the point, and with relevance to people who hopefully will be directed towards reading this. I apologize for my more technical readers for how blunt this will be.
So your done with your workout? What do you eat? -Let's take a step back for a moment, because we eed to recognize that whatever goes into your system after your workout isn't the most important meal. We should be looking at this as a mass of actions albeit, food that enters your mouth.
Protien: We need protein to rebuild. Some of the most important aspects of our bodies are built upon proteins. Our interest is the muscles. optimal recovery comes from eating lots of protein. The "experts" say 1g of protein per lbs of body mass. Admittedly, I have -no- idea where this number comes from. It's just what is out there consistently. however, in the words of Atomic dog: Starting breaking 250g's of protein, and magic will happen.
How? If it needed to be killed in order to reach your plate, than it will have protein. Meat, poultry, eggs are your best bet. So put some extra turkey on your sandwich, get some extra chicken or servings of meat. 20 g's is about equal to the size of a deck of cards of pure meat/chicken. this will help you count.
If you aren't drinking protein shakes than I do not even know why you are bothering reading this, cause you're wasting your time even more now. -Drink em, put em down, plug your nose up if you dint like it. Fuck it put honey in it if you have to. Just get em down.

Carbohydrate: Among some important things your body needs in order to recovery, and do other crazy shit we don't care about too much. Carb's have a complex past and even more confusing focus now. eat them -don't eat them- which ones to eat? Lets break this down simply: First you should determine how many servings you really need of carbs a day (efficient for caloric intact, since protien lacks sufficient calories on its own). When I was throwing I weight about 245-250 and was eating about 8 servings of carbs a day. thats about 2 each meal, with a snack. Typically I would eat potateo's with breakfast and a bowl of cereal (among my protein). Lunch would be a sandwich, so 2 slices of break was a single serving. and whatever else was around. So on and so forth. I rarely would eat rice or pasta as my serving. I kept to whole grain fancy breads, yogurts, cereal, or sometimes the buns on burgers were left on. This is were I deemed my need calorie intake.
The real Carb that should be taken in, as much as possible, are your dark greens. These are the life savers for the diet of meat, meat, with some meat and bread on the side. Pile a few handfuls of baby spinach, green peppers, and whatever else is around (avoid lettuce, it sucks) and chow down. If you need dressing then I am sure I will make fun of you. Just stick with oil and vinegar if your too uptight about it. This will input the necessary fiber that we need to not seem completely un healthy to anyon who doesnt care much about looking food naked.
Fruits: Eat them, one apple, a banana, whatever berries you can if you can get em. if you don't eat fruit its about as bad as not drinking protein at this point.

There are the essentials for a proper diet, laid out hopefully simply. Eat alot of protein and as many greens as possible. Supplement this with limited carbs, mainly aim for post workout meals (right after your workout, and other meals that follow that) since they are more useful then rather at any other time.

The essential "why" usually comes up when people are taught or corrected on how to eat. And the best explanation is along the lines of: To get better. Getting better should be the goal of participating in a sport. And if so, to follow that goal several steps need to be taken into consideration. Technique, strength, and recovery are 3 main things in which need improving to get better. Better technique, get stronger and recovery better. Luckily we kill 2 birds with one stone by eating the right diet, not only are we enhancing our recovery but we are helping our bodies get stronger by eating more protein! A beautiful relationship exists between eatings protein and getting stronger, and its very simple, unlike anything going on currently in the tabloids. Eat more, get stronger, get recovered!
So, do these things and you will surely be ahead of the game when it comes time to compare notes on who is improving and who isnt. Remember we must lay a sturdy foundation to build upon. such a foundation cannot be built if certain details like diet and recovery are being ignored.
-GFH