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Originally Posted by trew
Check out Lyle' McDonald's article on meal frequency. I think it is a pretty good write up on the topic:
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/mus...ass-gains.html
Here's probably the most relevant section of the article (the rest goes into research and backing for these conclusions):
So, according to Lyle, if you eat anything of substance, you can wait 5 hours between meals. If you eat something that contains a lot of casein (whole milk products), you probably will be able to wait 8 hours. (It's no wonder that Mark Rippetoe's single line of diet advice for mass gainers is "drink a gallon of milk every day").
I should also mention that Lyle's article is debating a program for "optimal" mass gaining. People gain decent mass on all sorts of different diets. (Check out leangains.com for the other end of the extreme: lean massing while doing 16 hour fasts... essentially skipping 1 meal a day and eating big during an 8 hour window).
At the end of the day, you can gain mass pretty much with any type of diet as long as you get adequate calories and nutrients (especially proteins/aminos). If you become a social hermit because of your workout/diet, you are doing something wrong. |
I read something like this recently as well from a renowned trainer. The whole idea was that if you can't find the time to eat 5-6 meals per day, it is possible to get what your body needs in less meals.
Sometimes that calls for eating up to 80g of protein in a single sitting, which is a lot of chicken.
In terms of additional protein/calories, what I do these days is fill up a 800mL container with milk, and put 2 scoops protein powder in there, which at 35g per scoop gives me 70g protein in the powder, and then roughly 30g protein in the milk, which is an additional 100g per day. Works rather well. Not that hard to drink either. Half in the morning, half in the afternoon.