Paleo for Fighters

Sep 25, Messages: It's basically the perfect health diet by Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminet. It's a paleo diet that allows safe starches like white rice, potatoes, taro root etc. Chrono , Oct 18, Oct 18, Messages: Steve zen , Oct 18, Oct 16, Messages: Hmm, I never have to cut weight for anything anyway and being Filipino I just can't live without white rice. Anything containing gluten can suck it.

May 14, Messages: I always take nutrition advice with a pinch of salt. My nutrition lecturer at university taught us to critically evaluate everything and draw our own conclusions. I simply did not have access to a lot of the processed and refined foods you can get in the West so I lived on a lot of meat, a few veggies, and rice. Now rice isn't Paleo and I was not consciously trying to eat Paleo style so every opportunity I got I ate my share of junk - but my diet was a lot closer to Paleo at that time than what it is now living back in Canada. I found that I was, on average, about 25lbs lighter in Pakistan.

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After arriving I quickly dropped in weight partly because of the diarrhea I contracted.. After almost a year of weight training I managed to add about 10lbs but I was not able to eat the quantities of food required to support a lot of muscle growth. When I got back to Canada, I effortlessly saw my weight shoot up past lbs.

Part of it was the 10lbs of muscle I added in Pakistan - but a lot of it was fat around my midsection that started to obscure my abs. The quantity and type of food was the only thing that changed. Anyways that whole experience peaked my interest in what a full on Paleo diet might do which brings me to the start of this Paleo for boxing challenge.

I might add that I'm not the only boxer giving Paleo a try. Now I don't expect Paleo to automatically and magically turn people into better boxers. What I'm curious about are the claims that a Paleo diet will give us more energy, help with recovery, eliminate any excess fat we're carrying while replacing it with muscle, and generally just make us feel good. I followed Robb on Twitter and let him know that we were going to put Paleo to the test to see what effect it might have on our boxing performance.

Robb kindly replied to me with some tips for modifying the baseline Paleo diet in the book to accommodate high intensity training volumes like boxers have. He suggested that we increase our intake of taters, fruits, and yams to provide enough of a carb boost to meet our energy demands. Athletes and boxers who train intensely need carbs.

Super low carb is not the way to go and Paleo does not mean no carbs.

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Paleo diets rely on your body to do its thing to make the glucose it needs to fuel everything - boxers simply need to up the starchy carbs to supplement those processes to see the benefits and still maintain their level of training. Before deciding to offer you this challenge I also took a look at what Precision Nutrition had to say about Paleo.

While they do point out some issues - in their words They came to these Paleo conclusions in this article:. I already eat pretty good - no sugar, limited dairy and a good dose of lean meats and veggies so I'm not expecting it to be too difficult a transition to simply eliminate all grains and legumes from my diet. If you could eat it, you damn well ate it! Paleo Eating in Thailand? Having said that, there is nothing at all wrong with trying to gear your diet around non-processed foods. Like any dietary approach, though, there is a quite a bit of effort involved in maintaining it.

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And Paleo is a very strict diet indeed — you can pretty much forget about meals-0n-the-go and you better damn well learn how to cook. The main issue you might have with the Paleo diet is that it can be a real challenge if sticking with the rules. But hey, if you can do it, good things await indeed. Paleo can absolutely improve your health. And many of the benefits indirectly or directly can help improve your body physique too. A proper Paleo diet is made up of whole foods. Yes, there are some exceptions to the whole food part like some packaged natural condiments and sauces, but the vast majority of your diet will be made up of natural, unprocessed food.

This basically cleans up your eating habits by putting good fuel into your body while avoiding the bad stuff. I think most of us agree that too much processed food is a bad thing. A strict paleo diet has you completely avoid processed foods. And yes, no donuts dammit. Avoiding processed food also directly ties into our next point, which will be of interest to most people who want to lose weight and build a better body. The funny thing about avoiding processed foods is that your calorie consumption tends to drop dramatically.

People who simply replace processed food with whole foods often lose weight without actually trying to cut down HOW much they eat.

Paleo for Fighters

Replacing processed foods full of fats and sugars with more nutrient dense food choices reduces your calorie intake, increases the number of quality nutrients, and makes you feel fuller for longer an increase in the satiety effect. Notice that the less processed the food , the bigger the actual portion sizes are?

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It should also be no surprise that whole foods have more actual nutrients like vitamins, minerals, and fiber, and in balanced proportions, a much better ratio of protein, fats, and carbs than do processed foods. So by replacing processed food with whole foods, you are basically adding more vitamins and minerals to your diet, cutting out chemicals, while reducing your overall calorie intake. You are also getting a MUCH better ratio of both macronutrients protein, carbs, and fat and micronutrients per calorie!

A win win situation. You can lose weight eating only Big Macs or Twinkies and people have. If you are, you lose weight.

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If you are not, you gain weight. The Paleo diet emphasizes lots of protein free range animals, non-processed dairy , carbs from non-grain sources fruits and veggies , and healthy fats nuts. If you think about what you usually eat, a major part of your diet is likely starchy carbs noodles, bread, rice, potatoes, etc. When you remove those carbs, you have to fill the dietary gap with something else — and a major part of that something else tends to be larger protein quantities during meals.