Training during peak week

Does anyone have a rational for training during peak week?

Is there a difference between doing total body work for M,T and W versus doing a body part split(Legs;back/bi; chest,shoulder,delt)? What is happening to the body that would make these two approaches different?

Thanks!

Oh - and what about black coffee during peak week? yes or no?

sounds to me like someone got there peak week from joe and gets as confused about it as i do.

JL- as far as i can tell whenever joe has you do muscle work during peak week it is so the glycogen from the carbs you eat to go into the muscle being worked. this way you won't spill over and you'll get tighter and tighter. you can't just simply eat carbs and hope they store in the muscle. muscle glycogen will stay in the muscle tissue until you use that particular muscle. if joe is having you do a total body workout, he wants glycogen following into more of your msucle groups( i think??), but i'm not the brillant man who developed your peak week, so best bet is to ask him.

 as for the coffee, i got the go ahead from joe on that one during my peak week, including a little stevia, so go ahead and drink up. 

hope this helped 

Graig

Thanks for your insight. I am doing what Joe gave me to a T - no room for error here! I just have heard of so many different ways, it was out of curiosity as to why one way over another. I need all the help I can get to get tighter and tighter.....esp since this is my first show ever! You all are so knowledgeable that I feel like a big sponge with this stuff:-)

Jill

Jill

When is the show ...... Good LUCK ! 

KB

Hi! I have a show this Saturday, followed by April 26th and rounding out on May 3rd.... Hold on, it's a long ride!!!

Your show is May 3rd right, Good luck right back at ya! You have Joe on board... and your GOLDEN!! I cannot believe the brain that this man has... totally unbelievable! I ate more than I could almost stand yesterday, and this morning I look sick tight. No idea how, other than I had 175 g Carbs yesterday(which is a lot for me)!!! Trust the process and its smooth!!

Jill

Follow up to show Saturday... Joe's peaking was perfect and right on! I could feel the fullness come on slowly. Now the challenge is that nutritional peaking cannot replace the lack of size that I currently have! With the exception of my abs and glute/ham tie, I was pretty darn lean, but I need to go sleep in the gym for about 12 months to be competitive at that level!

Weight rack here I come. NLP has my name all over it!!

Another peak week question, as I will be competing again this weekend, and then rounding it out with the NE Classic on May 3rd!

I will be in orlando for work Monday - Thursday prior to the NE Classic. I have traveled for work and dieted before - but there was a grocery store within walking distance - so very easy! This meeting, not so much. My team is very aware of my "normal" eating and (lack of) drinking habits, as well as being in bed by 9pm - so that is not a problem.

The challenge is that I will again be trying to peak, and although have familiarity with it now, my food options will be limited. I would rather pack it all then try to depend on the hotel to cook for me. I have been scorn many times asking for 6 whites cooked in Pam and getting oil ridden mush. Having said that...food is precious right now, and I may kill someone if that happens....as it is I may have to wear depends so that I don't float away with all the water!

 So- to be brief and safer for all around me... Any ideas for meals that will make it to Florida in my suitcase??? I will carry a cooler for food that day - but need tues/wed/thursday covered - (macros - 125-150/125-175/20-25 depending on the day)

To make it even easier... I need carbs for sure!! The smurf that I am needs 175g carbs on some days! Rice cakes and veggies will take forever!!!

Thoughts??

couple answers for you regarding your peak weak question:

carbs:

• Wasa crackers - usually 7 carbs each - very flat and easy to carry. 
• Also - something I picked up from Sean: Cheerios, which are primarily cooked oat flour are an easy carb for peak weak at 20g per cup.  Pre  bag or bring a box of cheerios and a measuring cup.
• Quick oats - with hot water are done. Don't even need a Microwave 19g per serving.  You can pre-bag or bring the whole box and a measuring cup.
• Quick Rice - also very easy - cooks in a few seconds with a microwave 30g for 1/4 cup dry.  Again pre-bag or bring the whole box and a measuring cup.

Protein:

• Protein powder: mix with a drop of water, mix with a TBspoon of peanut butter and spread on two WASA crackers.  That should work into your macros once or twice per week.
• grilled chicken 

fat:

• Peanut butter - can be purchased there - or bring a tiny jar and measuring spoon.
• the fat in the chicken

measuring devices.  3 tablespoons = 1/4 cup.  Pack light.  All you need to carry  is 1 tablespoon and you can measure anything.  (also three tsp = 1 tbsp if all you have is 1 tsp.) If you get a tiny creamer container from D&D, that is 1 Tablespoon.  The cap of your water bottle is one tsp. 

Thanks to both of you.... Those are awesome ideas! Thanks Mary for those conversions.... it's the little things like that which trip me up sometimes

One last question.... How do you get frozen food through security? They have taken my ice packets twice now!! Even though I beg, tell them I will die without food, cry, pout, suck up, .... they say sorry and carry them away. Did I miss some flight memo somewhere??

I've never used ice packs once.  My cooler, keeps the frozen food frozen -- pack everything very tightly.

Hey guys  not to be a stickler but isn't there 4 TBSP in a 1/4c ? .....