Basic training/keeping gains

[Micki]

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[yungone501]

How long is basic training?

Do you have to eat only 3 meals a day or can you store/buy your own food?

[Micki]

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[baseline_9]

Your main problem is going to be food.

Canned Tuna
Canned Mackrel
Canned Chicken if you can hack that shit
Whey Powder
Casien Powder

apart from that, get friendly with the kitchen staff.

[yungone501]

You primary focus here is to supply your body with adequate calories to prevent catabolism. Eat at EVERY chance. Stick with dense carbs and slow digesting proteins. Try and incorporate some kind of resistance training often though keep it short and to the point. Assuming your diet will be hard to supply adequate nourishment, you want to avoid over training by long workouts. Stock up on items such as described above by baseline and include some sweet potatoes, prunes, oatmeal (mix with shake), etc...

Good luck with both training and maintaining.

[Phate]

BCAAs and Vitamin C will help as well

I would suggest getting a big tub of instantized BCAA powder(it tastes disgusting so no one else will use any), and making a drink to sip on(add fruit juice and flavoring to mask the taste of the BCAAs) throughout the day, i would say 30g of BCAAs sipped during the day along with other food sources should help greatly

Vitamin C has been shown to significantly lower cortisol, which will increase due to stress(AKA basic training), 1-2g taken in the morning and PWO or after training will reduce any effects cortisol would have on muscle catabolism

[alpmaster]

Haha responses are funny, before I give an answer, what Basic Training is this? Marines? Army? What MOS?

[D7M]

before I give an answer, what Basic Training is this? Marines? Army? What MOS?

x2....

[yungone501]

Haha responses are funny, before I give an answer, what Basic Training is this? Marines? Army? What MOS?

Regardless of what type of training it is, the same principle still apply:

***Supply the body with adequate calories***

[Teufel_Hunden]

Regardless of what type of training it is, the same principle still apply:

***Supply the body with adequate calories***

Negative, it does matter. Marine Corps. bootcamp, you can't bring anything, just the clothes on your back. No protein bars, no tooth brush, no nothing. From what I hear the other branches are pretty chill though.

[alpmaster]

Regardless of what type of training it is, the same principle still apply:

***Supply the body with adequate calories***

Um, no, if you know what (serious) boot camp is like, there is no chance in hell you're going to supply your body with adequate calories from proper nutrition.

He is not in yet, therefore he will go through basic training. You're talking like this kid is going to have a supermarket with him, and his drill sergeants are gonna let them just go off get some good high quality bodybuilding foods.

Nope.

It's sit down, shut up, eat your ****ing food. The food sucks, you have 3-4 minutes to eat it. There is no quality to it. You do not store food, you do not have a choice of what food you eat. You train all day long.

There is NO way of 'bodybuilding' or living the lifestyle in military basic training.

[The Fiend 138]

I'm sure you can eat anything that you bring along, but it might be hard to keep stuff refrigerated, so I'm thinking Protein Powder/Protein shots, Dried Chicken...

LOL,don't waste your time bringing anything. Like the Marine said,you won't get to keep anything but the clothes on your back,and that wont last long either. I was Army at Fort Benning,and I assure you it was not chill at all.
Now A.I.T. is a different story. You can eat more there,and you will have weekends free for the most part. Good Luck. HOOAH!!

[anabolic1979]

yea they dont let u bring food! lol forget about keeping your gains. u eat with they feed u 3 meals a day. U have a bit of a choice but u dont have alot of time. u get so stressed just eat as much as u can as fast as u can and dont worry about it u can always put it back on after.

[Kibble]

---You cannot bring extra food
---You eat three times a day, when they tell you to
---Your sleep gets interrupted every night for drills or guard duty
---You do excessive cardio

[Tim_nd32]

Your screwed, as I lost all my gain during bootcamp. You can pray to Allah, and ask him to spare most of you muscle loss!