Thread: My Upperbody (diet)

Originally I posted this in the Training forum. I'm 17 years old, I follow my football team's training routine, Bigger Faster Stronger. Look it up to find out the exercises we do. We do a five day spread, lifting monday wednesday friday and doing some sort of agility and sprint workout tuesdays and thursdays. I am 6'1 220lbs with about 17%bf. My legs are growing and strengthening quickly but my upperbody is lagging behind. I was told it is probably my diet and to post my problem here. As it most likely is my diet, since I don't have a plan. it is difficult to do because I wake up around 6, go to school until 2:30, workout with the team until 4:30 then go to work until 9:30 or so. I don't have much time at night or in the morning to do much of anything. I try to eat a bowl of raisin bran with 2%milk (that's what my mom buys). for lunch around 10:40 I eat whatever my family ate for dinner the previous night, some meat, potatoes yogurt and the like. for post workout I try to get home for a shake but that's not always possible so I try to get some peanuts or a chicken that kroger sells or something like that so I can have SOMETHING. then when I get home from work I run some sort of long distance for stamina training for both endurance on the feild and to get in better shape for Tekulve acceleration camp. I then scrounge around the fridge for something to eat. Right now its a little out of the question to ask my mom to buy this and that and the other thing, because we're really short on cash (my dad, an IT guy, has been out of work for over a year). I usually try to eat just about anything I can get my hands on and don't drink anything but diet, iced tea(unsweetened with nothing but maybe a lemon) or water, mostly water. I was told I'm not allowed to drop below 215lbs. and I need to catch my upperbody up with my lower. I can squat about 405 and deadlift about 495 but I can't benchpress but 205.

As far as your comment about getting your mom to buy food...most of what I eat is pretty inexpensive. Its not the best tasting stuff, but its good for what I'm trying to achieve. You probably have most of what you need in the house, but dont typically eat it.

Copied from my journal here at IM...

Todays diet/supps:

Meal 1: 3 whole eggs (ran out of eggs)
1.5 c Fiber One Cereal
3 Fishies
Creatine actijube
200mg Caffeine
Multi

Meal 2: Post workout shake
Creatine actijube
Echinacea

Meal 3: Steak
1 c raw oats

Meal 4: Shake
3 fishies

Meal 5: 1 c (cooked) Brown Rice
1 can Steak
1 c green beans


Meal 6: 1 c (cooked) Brown Rice
1 can Salmon
1 c green beans

Meal 7: 1 c Cottage cheese/fruit
3 fishies
Echinacea