Nutrition.

[Silence86]

Hey guys, I'm new to this forum, I'm a 17 year old, junior in high school who aspires to be a SEAL and it will take God himself to stop me. Anyway, maybe this has been asked before but I'd like to hear from a real SEAL as to what a good diet would be while training and for everyday life. If anyone could help me out I'd be much appreciative. Thanks.

Steve

[OgReDeViL]

Ya I'm a 16 year old, sophmore in high school and not even God can stop me from being a SEAL. I would also like to know what kinds of diets to use. And Steve, hope to see you when we both become SEALs...

[k9gsd]

what a good diet would be while training and for everyday life


Nobody else answered you. newsgroup alt.sport.weightlifting has good info. Also muscle & Fitness Magazine runs some good nutritional articles. Muscle & Fitness has an online version that you may wish to try as well.

Robin

[Frogman4ever]

Steve,
I am not yet a Navy Seal, But I am getting ready to go into buds. I do know some information based on nutrition that may help you out. I have spoken to a navy seal motivator over the phone and I also know a navy seal personally and they both helped me out a lot. First of all your nutritional diet depends on whether you are trying to gain weight and tone it into muscle mass or if you are trying to lose weight and become tone. If you are trying to gain muscle mass then you need to be eating about 4-6 square meals a day, that are packed with high protein and carbohydrates. Your calorie intake must be around 5000 calories a day. Try to stay away from things that are high in sugar and fats. remember for every 4 grams of protein and carbs their are 9 grams of fat, so keep a record of everything you eat and make sure your eating good foods. Also try taking a meal supplement. I recommend a whey protein shake called ISOPURE. During my lifting my bench press increased close to 50 pnds in 8 weeks. I gained 12lbs of solid muscle mass. It's tough to stay dedicated but if your that determined to become a seal, nothing will stop you.
If your trying to lose weight, you need to drop your calorie intake, and be very careful of the foods you eat. make sure your eating mostly high in carbohydrate foods. Raw vegetables are really good. Also do more cardio workouts. Run more miles. On top of my calesthetics I run 30 miles a week. It's taken some time to get this way but slowly but surely it pays off. My last recommendation is to go to your local bookstore and find a nutritional book in the exercise and fitness center. I hope I helped you a little.

Good Luck,
JAY

[Wickwire02]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1578261074/qid=
1023654967/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-5456351-6994238

This is a link to the Navy SEAL Nutritional guide. I am 22 and will be heading to BUD/S after I graduate from Texas A&M University in December. This book has a lot of helpful formulas for calculating your bodies specific needs. It even tells you what to eat at a few fast food restaurants. This book will help your training quite a bit. I hope this helps.

[elpaninaro]

Jay has some good advice,

As for me- I will admit I am a bit of a nutritional purist. I believe that the food God gave us is good enough and anything else is potentially risky.

I suggest avoiding anything prepackaged- ANYTHING, no matter if it say "fat free" on it or whatever. Eat real, natural foods for a start. If fresh vegetables are not always feasible- get frozen and not canned.

As Jay said, a lot depends on whether you need to lose weight or not. And be watchful too of eating too little if you are in serious high level training.

Several small meals a day is the best course. And if you are training a lot- eat whenever you are hungry. Trust your natural instincts here.

Meats should be lean and baked or broiled- not fried. Avoid high sugar foods too. For fruits, concentrate on citrus, melon and berries. Those are best. For vegetables, anything goes, but beans, broccoli, squash and carrots are good choices.

If working out a lot, put a focus on protein too- including tuna and beans. Tuna salad made with tuna in spring water, boiled eggs, celery and a bit of mayonnainse is a great staple for your diet.

But keep balance too. These Adkins diets and the like are CRAP. You need ALL of the food groups each day, not some Hollywood fad diet.

The basic point is this- eat when your body tells you to eat and not when your mind does. And when you eat, keep it as natural and simple as possible. This is the real world,. sometimes you will go out to McDonald's or for a giant steak, but just be sure that you do that on occasion. Keep to natural foods most of the time and you can cheat.

As a final note- the best way to be sure you have the right diet is to see how your exercise is going. Try keeping a food and exercise diary and look at your entries to see when you exercise performance is lower than usual. And then look at your diet for those days and the day before. It will teach you where you are going wrong.