advice on my diet

brough.h

Hi i'm a newbe to this forum so i thought i'd post my diet to see if i'm going in the right direction
I'm 27, 6ft and 224lb my diet is as follows

6.30am
protien shake with 250ml of skimmed milk
2 slices of wholemeal bread
2 slices turkey breast

9.30
protien shake with 250ml of skimmed milk
2 slices of wholemeal bread
5 egg whites 2 whole eggs

12.00
120g brown rice
200g chicken breast

2.00
protien shake with 250ml of skimmed milk
30g raisens
30g grapes
1/2 a mango

4.30
protien shake with 250ml of skimmed milk
s slices wholemeal bread

5.00 train for about one hour

6.45
1 small jacket
120 g brown rice
200g chicken breast/lean steak
30g mixed veg

10.45
casien protien shake with water

i stick to this diet 6 days a week useing saturday as a cheat day (still sticking to basic requierments), i've read a few articles regarding nutrition latley it says for my weight i should be consumeing +300g of protein +600g of carbs and over 5500 cals. is this true??

please help!!!!!!

Tall

Allo mate.

I'm 6ft6in and 246lbs and I dont consume 5500 cals... I could but I'd need either AAS or alot of cardio and cutters to keep the fat off...

I'm bulking on about 4500 kcals at the moment. Where did you get your numbers from? 300g protein is about right, but not 600g carbs each day...

Diet looks very good.

What are your aims? I'm guessing bulking?

PScarb

how good or bad the diet is depends on your goals? Losing fat? bulking?

brough.h

hi guys thanks for your replies, I want to keep gaining mass untill just befor next summer and then cut up (hopefully) not tryed to cut back any body fat yet so i don't know how hard it is, i think i'm quite strickt on my diet i dont eat for pleasure just for fuel, i got my numbers on a bulking diet in musclemag it had a 28 page special on nutrition, i'm fairly new to this game but it's quickly taken over my whole life i eat sleep and breath bodybuilding, hoping you guys can give me some help and insperation to keep gaining, can anyone help with finding out body fat %

Thanks again

Ali M

how is finding out your bodyfat % going to help you when your on a bulk? dont be to concerned about it, your on a bulk, fat % will probably just increase over time as your bulking.

And when your cutting your best bet is to go by the way you look.

Tall

While AliM's reply is a bit terse... I gotta agree with him to be honest

Unless you are a super-Ecto you WILL get fat on a bulk

mrhulahoop

What are your goals? If your bulking, then is it working? If it isnt, then presuming your training is Ok, then up the calories by adding peanut butter and upping the quantity of food...although on that amount of calories at your weight I would guess that it is probably working. And yeah...fat gain seems to go hand in hand with bulking, but you can try to keep it to a minimum by eating cleanly....but theres nothing wrong with wanting to know what your bodyfat % is, is there?

brough.h

just wanted to now how to find out body fat % for future referance only been training for 1 year so i've still got lots to learn,my goals are to keep bulking for another year ish, as for working put 2 1/2 inches on my biceps and 3 inches on my chest in 1 year but seems to be going very slow at the moment!, not to sure if my training is too much or too little,
anyone mind taking a look at it?

Tall

15" to 17.5" arms in a year is very good mate - unless you put on a stack load of fat - I'm assuming that you haven't.

Have you posted you routine up mate?

brough.h

i,m quite lean in general just carrying fat on my stomach not to botherd about that at this time,

training as follows

tuesday (back)
Lat pulldowns (front) x4 15,12,10,8
lat pulldowns (rear) x4 15,12,10,8
seated machien rows close grip x4 15,12,10,8
bent bb row x3 12,10,8
db row x3 12,10,8

Thursday (arms)

Dips x3 to failure
smith machien presses x3 12,10,8
cable pushdowns x3 12,10,8

machien preacher curls x3 ,12,10,8
db concentration curls x3 12,10,8
ez bar 21's


sat shoulders

seated db press x4 15,12,10,8
front laterals x3 12,10,8
side laterals x3 12,10,8
rear laterals x3 12,10,8
ez bar pull ups x3 12,10,8
shrugs x2 failure

sun chest

flat bench bb press x4 15,12,10,8
incline db press x3 12,10,8
flat bench db fly x3 12,10,8
cable crossover x3 12,10,8

don't train legs at mo got a bad knee playing football

what you think???
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