Hello There!! New Canadian Athele Member Here!
Hey guys,
I've been reading threads on this site on and off for the past month and spent the whole of yesterday and today on the forums too so I decided it was time to register and actually be apart of the community.
I'm located in Canada and am a competitive athlete in grappling(not mma, just grappling, getting punched in the head is really not my thing haha). I've been lifting on and off since I was 16 but have never really got a good grasp on it till about a year ago(am 28 now). I lift mainly to condition for grappling and my main goal is to get increases in strength although I'm not opposed to having a smoking hot body, so strength=priority 1, smoking hot body=priority 2.I'm finding it very difficult to juggle the two though, lifting and making gains while training 4 times a week for grappling with two hours each session is confusing and tough. If I work too hard in the gym I get clobbered in training and if I train too much my lifting goes out of whack and I don't make any gains.
Eating right isn't hard however, eating at the right time is, depending on when I have to train I have to keep food light otherwise I'd constantly feel like throwing up while grappling. Also I'm finding that an athlete's diet is a lot different from a bodybuilders, we have to take in a lot more calories and it's so expensive. I eat like a friggin horse and I still have trouble keeping and gaining weight. My fellow grapplers who are bigger then me don't eat nearly as much and they are all 20-40 lbs heavier then me. Must be a metabolism thing?
At the moment I'm halfway through my first run through of a periodized lifting program, I'm in the intensification/deloading phase. I'm still trying to understand how it works. Will need to read up more on it. Anyway I think this should suffice for an intro, say hi and comment as you will! It's good to be here!
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