HalcyoN
Sun, March 20th, 2005, 06:24 AM
Hi,
I'm a uni student and recently have really got everything into place (discovered free weights instead of machines, nutrition's perfect, good cardio sessions) and things have been moving along nicely for the last week.
I'm going home tomorrow for about 10 days where I don't have access to a gym and limited access to protein (it would be hard to take my whey tub).
Whilst I've heard that it can be good to take a week off, do people just mean from weight training, not totally stopping?
Thing is, one of my friends told me that protein has a sort of loading phase, in that only after about 2 weeks of having the elevated protein level (1g per pound) do you start to reap. Is this true, and will going home and dipping back down to probably not more than 30g a day be very counterproductive?
Should I get my dad to pick me up just so I can take my tub of whey (can't get it on the train with all my other crap) ? :P
P.S. For if by some fluke there's anyone else as dumb and naive as me on these boards that hasn't subscribed to free weight training yet, do it now. It feels so much better (love the burn!)
I'm a uni student and recently have really got everything into place (discovered free weights instead of machines, nutrition's perfect, good cardio sessions) and things have been moving along nicely for the last week.
I'm going home tomorrow for about 10 days where I don't have access to a gym and limited access to protein (it would be hard to take my whey tub).
Whilst I've heard that it can be good to take a week off, do people just mean from weight training, not totally stopping?
Thing is, one of my friends told me that protein has a sort of loading phase, in that only after about 2 weeks of having the elevated protein level (1g per pound) do you start to reap. Is this true, and will going home and dipping back down to probably not more than 30g a day be very counterproductive?
Should I get my dad to pick me up just so I can take my tub of whey (can't get it on the train with all my other crap) ? :P
P.S. For if by some fluke there's anyone else as dumb and naive as me on these boards that hasn't subscribed to free weight training yet, do it now. It feels so much better (love the burn!)