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Originally Posted by hesh329
The biggest thing when it comes to food and weight gain is you need to think of food as information. The idea of calories in and calories out dated now. Its more about when to eat your food. Protein helps to build muscle, complex carbs tell you to retain fat through the release of insulin, good fats can actually help you lose weight and are needed for the nervous system and organs when training. It is all about intereaction, timing and how you train. Dr. John Berardi is really cuttting edge and has a lot of information on his website. As for working out avoid isolated body building exercises, instead focus on full body exercises, deadlifts are better than squats (squats load the spine and if you are not careful it will tend to round your back, if you do squats do front squats way better for hockey), chin ups, push ups (do not start bench if you cannot do a push up) always start simple and own every movement. Lots of weight and bad movement is the worst thing you can do. Also avoid crunches Dr. Stu Mcgill has put a lot of research out there about now doing traditional crunches.
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Just as easy to destroy your spine doing deadlifts. Possibly more so. The natural tendency for people is to round their back when reaching down to pick something up. The deadlift is actually a very technical lift to do properly. Wouldn't recommend it without proper training.