1. Numbers mean nothing. Especially when it comes to the scale. You could be gaining all fat. Or worse, losing muscle.
There's this fighter. This fighter named Roy Nelson. Roy is such a fucking talented fighter but you would never know by looking at him. Let's be honest. Roy looks like shit. But I would never tell it to his face because he also looks hungry.
So Roy fucking Nelson finally decides to get his ass into shape. He goes to Mike Dolce, famed nutritionist and huge advocate of whole and natural foods. The guy doesn't even support taking supplements. On the tsbmag.com blog he had this to say about his diet for fighters:
“I am not an advocate of supplements, although, supplements do make their way into my program towards the very end once we made sure we have a very high level of whole, earth grown nutrients,” Mike says. The only supplements he supports are all natural ones, like fish oil or flax seed. “Any other supplements out there, sports supplements – I’m not the guy. We can get all the same nutrients and a better level of nutrients through whole foods.” If you want to get big, it’s all about “calories in versus calories out.” Mike advocates eating “mom meals” when trying to gain muscle, foods like chicken, broccoli, potatoes, steak, etc. The caveat is “you have to make sure your food source is of a very high quality.”
Now I'm not quite sure if this Mike Dolce guy really deserves to call this his diet. The Dolce Diet is eating natural and whole foods? I've been doing that for years already. My mom has been doing that since before I was born. My grandma has been doing that for who fucking knows how long. But maybe Roy never has. So good luck to Roy. He's going to need it. Can anyone say divorce? I heard his wife stopped going to his fights a long time ago. And it wasn't because she didn't want to see him get hurt. She just didn't want to see him topless anymore.
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ReplyDeleteAwesome. I hate diets too. I've just recently started researching nutrition and health, and I'm starting to think that we've been given the wrong information all our lives. What is your opinion on the primal blueprint and other similar lifestyles (not diets)?
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I have to say about the actual writing of your blog is: You have #1 by "numbers mean nothing." But there's no #2. If there's no #2, you don't need a #1.
Also what do you mean by this statement:
"You could be gaining all fat. Or worse, muscle."?
Other than that I love the personal tone you portray in your writing. I feel like we're having an actual conversation. My favorite passage is "Roy looks like shit. But I would never tell it to his face because he also looks hungry." I'm going to use that about my boss at work. Thanks!
I was actually just about to edit this post and take that second passage out. I worried that maybe my joking sounded a little too mean. The first quote was a typo. Thank you for the advice!
ReplyDeleteI think the main point of Mike Dolce's diet is to get back to basics and that we don't need to look to articifial supplements to gain the results we desire.
ReplyDeleteThe diet is a normal meat and potatoes diet because being a UFC fighter you can't get away with eating a salad. But it looks like Nelson wasn't eating home cooked meals. It looks like the drive through was his best friend. I think Nelson just wanted to try and alternative diet to see if it would enhance his performace considering he did just lose to Frank Mir.