Hey, guys!
Jeff Cavaliere back here from athleanx.com with the next installment on our series on
nutrition: our snacks.
Again, my counter's filled up with a lot of food to kind of reinforce to you that you
are not limited in the amount of choices that you have for snacks.
I think we're just sort of limited in the ideas we have for snacks and what we qualify
as a healthy snack.
So today I wanna show you about 5-6 that you can easily take with you.
A lot of you guys are busy, a lot of you are on the run...
I wanna give you some options that you can have that you can take with you, be portable
and make sure you get your snacks in.
Here's one point here, guys: if you're trying to eat only from breakfast to lunch, you're
generally looking at around six hours.
That's six hours time period, it's way too long if you're trying to build muscle.
If you wanna actively build muscle, you have to eat every 2-3 hours to make sure that your
muscles that are trying to recover from -let's say- yesterday's workout, have that constant
flow of nutrients ready to be delivered to them, to help the repair, to help the recovery,
to help them get bigger.
So you need to eat every 2,5-3 hours.
A nice side effect is also is that it will boost your metabolism and make you start to
burn fat.
So starting off on this end here... you can never go wrong with a peanut butter sandwich.
You want peanut butter and jelly, that's fine.
This is the right kind of bread.
This is Weight Watchers bread.
You don't necessarily need to have Weight Watchers, you can just get a low calorie bread...it's
40 calories a slice.
Some of them out there actually have like 160-180 calories on each slice, those multigrain
breads.
Just be careful with the breads that you select, but a good whole wheat bread, something I
would say that is less than 80 calories a slice will be great for you.
Put peanut butter on it, cut it in four...this way you can grab them in quarters.
Very portable, they're not gonna go bad throughout the day.
So that's one good way to do that.
You can also, if you want, go with these single serving cans of tuna.
You can get the ones that pop on the top, very easy for you to bring to the office...good
source of Omega 3.
Some cheese wedges...they're a source of protein, individually wrapped, so again they're very
portable...they're not gonna go bad.
You can take them with you throughout the day.
Here looking at some hard-boiled eggs for some protein, you have your yogurt..
You can mix those with just a handful of almonds, something to get a little more healthy fats.
What you could do also is create your own...these are all included in the meal plans...
just create your own sort of meal plans.
Take your almonds, a handful.
Again, we don't measure on these meal plans, guys.
I don't want to turn you into little robots with measuring cups, because that's simply
not gonna work.
It might work for a couple of days, but you're gonna get tired of having to do that and you're
not gonna stick with it.
And the important thing about the ATHLEAN-X meal plans is that you actually stick with
these meal plans from start to finish... ...'cause you'll get tremendous results by the time
you're finished with the program, when you pair it with the training.
So a handful of nuts...if you want, even a handful of this sweet chocolate.
It's low sugar, it's not like regular chocolate.
Mix it up a handful together with the nuts, bring out some of your favorite cereal...
I know a lot of you guys from last series couldn't get a hold of the cereal...a low
sugar cereal guys..
Something like Cheerios, something like Crisp Baked, something that's got natural fibre
in it, a little sugar.
We're not talking about lucky charms.
So mix it all together, put it in a bag and then you have some treats that you can take
with you as well.
One of my favorites are the bars, the protein bars, just because for me they're extremely
portable, I know I'm getting enough protein from them... the calories sometimes fall between
that 250-300 range, so it's a perfect goal for you, for your snacks and to me they taste
pretty good.
So I recommend in the program mostly the Prograde line of supplements and EAS...they've both
been around, both high quality, very reputable companies.
They're not gonna go wrong and you're not gonna dive into the unsafe things or some
of the glorified candy bars that are out there.
So lastly, what I like to do... ...another tip that I tell guys, you'll see that Prograde
is also another thing that I recommend during the program, very high quality, highly purified,
real stuff.
You can count on the quality of this and actually help you build muscle.
You take a scoop of this powder, this comes in powder form.
Take it out, put it in your shake bottle in the morning.
Just leave it in the bottle there, when you're ready to drink it, pour in a bottle of water
and then you shake it up and you have a drink that's fresh.
It hasn't been sitting there all day.
So you can actually maintain the freshness of this just by mixing it in a different way.
Last thing is water.
Water is key, ok guys?
You gotta make sure you drink water with every single meal of the day.
The ATHLEAN-X meal plans revolve around the fact that you're gonna have water every single
day with every single meal. ...because you've gotta bring it to a 80/20 balance level.
So take a bottle of water with you.
If you have a problem with getting water down...I know some guys can't stand water, they can't
take it...Crystal Light.
Crystal Light is amazing, it comes in God knows how many flavors.
You'll find one flavor that you like, pour it into your water, mix it up and it will
help you to make sure you get as much as you need during the day.
Guys, all this stuff...these are just 5-6 of the meal plans I wanted to give you, but
there's over 37 meal options within our meal plan just for snacks alone.
The X-factor meal plans are guy friendly, they don't require you to know how to measure
things...it's you eat until you're not full anymore and that's it.
Very simple, quality foods, foods that help you build muscle.
You can get all these know if you head over to athleanx.com, grab the meal plans...and
oh, by the way, get the training system.
That will help you get lean, athletic and ripped muscle in over 90 day period.
You can buy these things together, the meal plans and the workouts and you'll see a transformation
of your body that you never thought was possible.
Head over to athleanx.com and we've gotta get back into the gym.
We're gonna get some more workout ideas.
Thanks, guys.