at first I was a little bit nervous I didn't know how my body was gonna react
I had to put a positive mindset in and by doing that it takes away that doubt
I got some stuff I cooked in bulk some chicken some rice that we're gonna
right now I do a cup and a half of cooked rice a meal and I do about eight
ounces of meat this is a chicken My dad's a chef my mom is an amazing
chef just via living with my dad and then for me I cooked a lot of fire
station too so I had I'd learned to become you know a good chef on minimal
budget at times and then cooking in bulk like it's cooked for 10 guys it's so
that's like throwing a party every time you cook you know I did cook three meals
a day so you learn to get creative and I'm a guy that could literally just grab
something and create verses like I could look at a recipe you know I know there's
people like only could go by what a recipe says but like I see my dad could
just pull out five ingredients out of a fridge and put together a sick meal you
know so that's when you know you're good five ounces there few more and off to
the microwave
there's tips and tricks that you learn as you go along and what works for you
one of the things I like to do is just keep things simple and not over
complicate and and have to make every meal an elaborate kind of overdone
several course kind of thing and so for what for me in general I mean we haven't
I have icon that supplies me with a big portion of my food which helps with time
and running the store and all the food prep that goes into that and then either
as times that I'm home that I do like to cook and have stuff and you know as I'm
going and getting stuff done through the day you know it doesn't take but 10 or
15 minutes to you fill the grill on throw a piece of fish or a steak
whatever I'm eating and you know have that ready to eat I mean most people
take a 10 or 15 minute smoke break bathroom break so to do that when you're
working is you know to feed your body is something I feel important like we've
stopped at ICON yesterday and I got some meals but like I said I like to cook
some of my food fresh and usually I'll do some of the steak and some of my fish
meals fresh well could you know grill it or baked stuff or whatever and
I usually get to Costco probably once a week sometimes twice but it's time to
stock up and you guys are coming with me so I'm going to the store you are too
Costco's the store that if you're hungry or have extra money in your pocket it's
not a good idea to come to because you always buy shit you don't need and then
they always have samples of food they have stuff that's amazing so again
sometimes a little bit hard to come here great in the offseason I have one salmon
meal a day right now and it's about eight ounces of cooked salmon cooked
weight back on that topic cook salmon one other
fish meal I eat cod my last meal that one Icon makes it just perfect so I love icon
cod
you know the older I get you know the digestion and you know my GI stuff is
important to maintain so what I like to do I notice you know as I've gotten
older my protein amounts have come down a little bit
versus like I remember eating 10 or 12 ounces of cooked meat per meal now I eat
anywhere from you know eight to ten ounces and I feel better like it's not
as heavy so red meat sometimes can be a little bit heavy but that's why I eat a
little bit later in the day but I noticed like when I'm carbing up for a
show and stuff I'll have a few steak meals and just that red meat I always
feel like it just really makes my body pop so just you know little things you
don't know if that's if you could find the science behind it but the
bodybuilding science is it works
some of the vegetables I like celery I find that again as I get older certain
things I can't eat I can't peppers I find like green bell pepper gives me
some terrible heartburn onion sometimes acity things tomato so stuff like kale
spinach lettuce celery carrots they don't give me heartburn which that thing
is heartburn is from the devil
I'm checking all the dates make sure the dates are sometimes if you don't check
and you buy some expires in two days and you get screwed and you screw yourself
I'm sampling you're just smelling it that works I could second smell taste
avocado good healthy fats wife loves to have she loves avocados so we always
pick him up at Costco they got them yeah big ones I'm actually gonna get my wife
some flowers can you smell it I don't want to smell like a funeral home
you know the funeral I always like that like there's a certain flower yeah yeah
exactly exactly no this is really pretty yeah this is nice
thank you I appreciate it
sea salt to the rice and it usually takes about 15-20 minutes in the rice
cooker and it comes out perfect every time you can leave it in there for a
while and the rice just stays warm and it's kind of it's nice it goes it's like
having a fresh meal spray with a little nonstick cooking spray
the reason I do that when it's on the grill there's a tendency fish has a
tendency to stick so old bay
busting through the door I'm good to have some some fresh meats some fresh fish
stuff like that that that definitely has a better taste you can tell a difference
in quality you know that's one of the things like say a young bodybuilder may
have a concern of like hey I can't afford the you know like a fresh fish or
a fillet when it comes to steak you know and and I mean I didn't start my career
you know eating fillet and fresh fish all the time you know I definitely had
to get the steak that was on sale was a round steak you know and and it take you
about ten minutes to eat a little four ounce piece because it's like chew and
leather but you kind of get you have to do what you have to do and you know as
you progress in this industry and the sport and fitness you just find the
things that work for you