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- What is going on, Muscle & Strength.
It is the handsome raging silverback here, Chris Hester.
We're here at Meyer, here in Geneva.
Gonna be going in to do some grocery shopping
at eight weeks out, show you guys what I'm eating.
Getting ready for our USAs.
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How you doing, brother?
- How's it going?
Pummer.
- Appreciate it.
Yeah, every time my Dom sends me updates on the plan,
I'll look at it for 20 minutes straight,
and just get it memorized.
We got some bananas here.
This is the only fruit that's on my diet so far.
I get a hundred grams of banana on my high days,
which is basically one whole banana.
Spinach, I love my spinach.
I mean, I'm a gorilla, so...
That's all we eat anyway. Right?
- [Man] How do you normally eat it?
Do eat it raw or...?
- Yeah, just raw. Yeah, I get like...
So I get a cup.
I get a cup basically with each meal.
So yeah, I just eat it raw.
My two main sources of protein to meats
are ground turkey and ground beef.
Ground beef, but...
Or steak. I prefer the steak.
Sirloin on or flank.
We try to stick with those because of the less fat
on the steak on the state.
So go ahead and get...
See if we can get... Yep.
Perfect.
99.
So four meals.
No, three.
Three meals of...
I eat ground turkey, eight and a half ounces.
My two other meals are either way isolate or egg whites
and then one meal, a steak meal.
- [Man] You basically eat one per...
- Per meal. Yeah.
- [Man] That's expensive.
- It's so crazy, bro.
- [Man] Damn, so you go through a lot of that.
- Every... Yeah.
- [Man] And it's gotta be the 99.
- 99. Yeah.
Or the 97.
97 three. Yeah.
All right, so now we are looking for sirloin or flank steak,
which is my favorite meal of the day, steak.
My high carb days, I get eight ounces of steak
with five and a half ounces of rice.
On my low day, I get eight ounces of steak
with just a cup of veggies,
but anytime I get these steak, I'm happy.
And he keeps red meat...
My coach, Don, keeps red meat in my diet
pretty much all the way up until the show.
Nope, I think they took it all.
They knew I was coming and they put it all up.
- [Man] Wait.
- Wait a minute. I think I see.
Okay.
- [Man] Sirloin. - Sirloin, yup.
- [Man] How much do you need?
- Eight ounces. - [Man] Okay.
- So this should be pretty much. Yep. Yes.
- [Man] Do you weight your food cooked?
- Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
So right now this prep, currently,
we're eight weeks out of USAs.
Man, this prep has... It'd going by so fast.
It's honestly been so smooth
and I'm just enjoying every day of it, every minute of it,
just leaving those stone in turn,
like each meal, each cardio session, each training session.
Just embracing the challenges that lie ahead.
Still got eight weeks to get better
but I'm loving where we're at.
I'm loving where we're at.
Dom has a good plan ahead.
So yeah, we're just having fun.
Trying to put out a good package, unbeatable package.
So it's gonna be fun.
I'm excited to touch down to Vegas and show off these arms.
All right, so now we're coming down to get some oats.
See a lot of guys prefer cream of rice.
I like cream of rice too, but every time I make it,
I just... I F it up and it's like all clumpy.
- [Man] Yeah, it is hard. It's a patience game.
- Yeah, and I don't have the patience,
so I just always stick to the quicker oats.
You know, just put it in the bowl, measure it,
put it in the bowl microwave a minute, 20 seconds
and get done, you don't have to like play around with it so.
- [Man] Do you need any sweeter or anything or?
- No, no, no, no.
- [Man] You just eat plain.
- Just... yep. Mm.
- [Man] Man, that has no taste.
- When I, when I eat my oats, I put a lot of water in it,
so I just like, every time I take a scoop,
I just chug water.
So it's gone in 30 seconds.
I actually have these on my diet. Right?
- [Man] Seriously?
- Yeah, as a 78 grams
with almond milk as my pre-workout meal each day,
but I've never had it as the pre-workout meal.
I just...
- [Man] You think it'll get you carried away?
- I think so. Yeah.
And my body responds so well to the rice and either,
if I do weigh or turkey or fish.
So just try to be consistent with what got me here.
All right, so now we're getting the white rice, Minute.
Really simple, you just boil water.
Just let the water boil then once it's done,
pull the rice in let it sit for five minutes
then it's ready to go, drain it a little bit
then weigh it and then ready to eat.
- [Man] So is rice one of your main carb sources?
- Yes, yes. Rice for every, yeah, every meal. Mm.
- [Man] Oh, are you a mustard guy?
- That's all I eat, bro.
No spices, no herbs.
Yeah, mustard is it's my go to 'cause sodium is not too bad,
Which in time keeps my sodium high 'cause it keeps me full,
so he never cuts sodium, but it's...
Just a psychological thing for me, you know?
So picking up some egg whites
and all your body builders know that
we'll go through about eight of these a week.
- [Man] Eight?
- Give or take... 'cause like...
- [Man] You said you had what? Eight ounces?
- 16 ounces.
- [Man] 16 ounces. Almost the whole thing.
- Yes, pretty much. Yeah.
For twice a week.
- [Man] So what did you say one of the most expensive parts
of your prep has been?
- Food, oh, by far the food is the most expensive part.
Yeah.
I'm in the grocery store every three to four days.
Yeah.
- [Man] Wow. That's crazy. - [Man] You eat that much.
- [Man] Do you drink it or do you cook it?
- Okay. I'll be honest.
If I'm being lazy, I'll drink it, but I like to cook it.
We're in the danger zone from where
we gotta get outta here quick.
All right.
- [Man] What would you eat if you could?
- If I could.
Do I get to pick three?
- [Man] Sure. - Pick three. Okay.
Yep, this will be one.
Kit Kat Classic.
- [Man] Oh yeah.
- Always and forever.
Twizzlers will always have my heart.
Oh my God.
It's disgusting the amount of Twizzlers
and fruit snacks I can eat just sitting down.
- [Man] Welch's. Okay.
- [Chris] Yep. Number two. - [Man] Top shelf, baby.
- I eat for performance.
Whatever it takes to get the job done.
If I want to have something tasty,
I'll just wait 'til after the show,
'cause I'm just focused on winning.
- [Man] Oh yeah.
- So I'll have my fruit snacks after the show.
The holy grail, almond butter.
You know the sad thing about this is?
I only have this on my high days.
So I have to really cherish it, pre-workout.
So you'll see me eat it slow,
but no almond butter is really good,
and a lot of people say, what's the difference
between almond butter and peanut butter?
Well, it's has more potassium,
more magnesium, less saturated fat.
So yeah, the macros are like way better
in terms of almond butter versus peanut butter.
So yeah, I get about 28 grams pre-workout.
Yeah, Tupperware is your best friend,
especially traveling, during prep.
We eat out Tupperware, or a Ziploc bag, whatever.
Whatever works.
So yeah. That's...
- [Man] What's the most meals you brought with you in a day?
- 12.
I literally had a suitcase full of just food.
I'm surprised TSA didn't go through it and check it,
but yep, got the Tupperware.
- [Man] There you go.
Nice. All right, you ready to go?
- Ready to roll.
I have this with every meal, every single meal,
I have a diet Coke, just the flavor.
It's so good, and it helps me get in all my meals.
So every single meal, all my bodybuilders know
that's a game-changer doing prep.
It's a prep hack.
Time to secure the bag.
That what the young folks say?
Secure the bag?
- [Man] So how long will this all last you?
Two days? One day?
- About a day.
Life of a bodybuilder, bro.
This bag might bust.
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we just finished up my grocery hall run here at Meyer.
Gonna get this cooked up, get our day going.
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