Thread: Food during a tournament?

Ok I am entering my first submission tournament next month and a bit unsure what to have.

What sort of foods should I eat leading up to to comp and during the comp? I hope to be around 19 stone for the tournament, so bear that in mind

Thanks

Chips, burgers, cakes, nice greasy kebabs all should help Thor

Keep yourself carbed up preferably an electrolyte drink or something with minerals in to stop you cramping up, i'd have a fairly big meal a few hours before hand too, some chicken pasta salad something like that anyway, wheres the comp?

Definitely, chicken pasta is great! And tuna sandwiches.

Get Lucozade Sport too. If you're cutting weight try and eat as much as possible!


Where is this tournament, I might enter myself

Originally Posted by marc

Chips, burgers, cakes, nice greasy kebabs all should help Thor

Keep yourself carbed up preferably an electrolyte drink or something with minerals in stock you cramping up, i'd have a fairly big meal a few hours before hand too, some chicken pasta salad something like that anyway, wheres the comp?

I can only take your first Answer mate, chips, burgers cakes and kebabs it is! Good times lol.

Would you advice to have a big carb meal before bed as well? I will have a big bowl of macaroni cheese with chicken I think a few hours before. When you say electrolyte what do you mean mate?

The comp is in Chippenham, http://www.saspromotions.co.uk/

Originally Posted by JayC

Definitely, chicken pasta is great! And tuna sandwiches.

Get Lucozade Sport too. If you're cutting weight try and eat as much as possible!


Where is this tournament, I might enter myself

Ok I will grab some Lucozade sport, what about gatterade that good?

As above mate, chippenham the comp website is
http://www.saspromotions.co.uk/

Basically something similar to what jay said lucozade sport, gatorade is better have a look in sainsburys, tesco asda etc they should sell gatorade its got sodium/potassium in which you lose when you sweat and is the reason you cramp up, so if you keep chuggin on something like that before and during the comp you shouldnt cramp up or run out of gas.

Having a meal before bed wont do you any harm at all, keep the food going in

Edit; unless its undercooked and you give yourself botchalism

Originally Posted by marc

Basically something similar to what jay said lucozade sport, gatorade is better have a look in sainsburys, tesco asda etc they should sell gatorade its got sodium/potassium in which you lose when you sweat and is the reason you cramp up, so if you keep chuggin on something like that before and during the comp you shouldnt cramp up or run out of gas.

Having a meal before bed wont do you any harm at all, keep the food going in

Edit; unless its undercooked and you give yourself botchalism

PMSL nice one, will make a few protein bars and take it I think! Might buy some muscle milk cookies and cream and make up some bars with that!!! Yum lol.

Cheers for the advice! Hope I dont make as much of a tit in this as I did on Fighting Hurts lol

All the above including an extra cold can of white lightening just to fuel the aggression

Originally Posted by Yetiman

PMSL nice one, will make a few protein bars and take it I think! Might buy some muscle milk cookies and cream and make up some bars with that!!! Yum lol.

Cheers for the advice! Hope I dont make as much of a tit in this as I did on Fighting Hurts lol

Originally Posted by marc

Chips, burgers, cakes, nice greasy kebabs all should help Thor

Keep yourself carbed up preferably an electrolyte drink or something with minerals in to stop you cramping up, i'd have a fairly big meal a few hours before hand too, some chicken pasta salad something like that anyway, wheres the comp?

That doesn't do for me. I'm taking 300mg tablets of magnesium (100% RDA) plus a multi-vitaminic (with 100mg of magnesium), plus lucozade sport up to one hour before sparing and the odd peanut (just finished half a bag). And still, a couple of days ago I woke up with the nastiest cramp (I hadn't had nuts in a while though).

Sports drinks just don't meet my body's expectations.


btw nothing's wrong with my body, I have so many cramps I actually did some blood tests and whatnot, and everything's normal, it's just that my muscles demand a larger portion of magnesium, go figure).
Also, burgers and other fast food doesn't do much for me either - a big Asda's ceasar salad with tones of mustard and ceasar dressing, though, does (so much it seems to be the only thing I can eat after training hard).
From a newbie to another(?) I'd say give the above advices a go in the next weeks, maybe a dressy salad will do more for you (and/or your energy levels) than mcdonalds, maybe not.

Thor, boxers carb up the night before - again chicken pasta always a winner and yes maybe 4-2 hrs before fight (you know yourself best) carb up again, Gatorade is my peronal favourite re elctro€/enery drink - Sainsbury's 4 for £3.15 unlike Lucozade you will not burp it up and it imo has less chance of giving up an upset stomach - which may occur with nerves as well!!!.

Thank you so much for the advice! Think ill be sorted for it!