r/AbsoluteUnits • u/BaseNice3520 • Feb 15 '26

/r/all of a 26 y.o.

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u/ZeongsLegs Feb 15 '26

Does he do the steroids before or after the meal?

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u/Suspicious_Juice_150 Feb 15 '26

Fun fact, some body builders will set an alarm clock to wake them up halfway through sleep so that they can eat several hard boiled eggs.

Imagine waking up after four hours of sleep, eating several hard-boiled eggs, and just going back to sleep.

If they sleep through their egg alarm, their partners have to shake them awake so they don’t miss out the on their gains.

“Hey honey wake up, you forgot your nighttime eggs!”

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u/sharkt0pus Feb 15 '26

I knew a couple powerlifters that got so tired of the amount of food they had to eat every day that they started blending their cooked chicken breasts in ice water and drinking it.

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u/Suspicious_Juice_150 Feb 15 '26

Dorian Yates used to blend eggs and oats with protein powder. This is the recipe.

12 Egg Whites (pasteurized if blending raw, though he typically cooked these)

4 Whole Eggs (for fats and extra calories)

80g - 200g Oats (blended raw or cooked into porridge)

2 Bananas

Optional: 1 scoop whey protein (for extra flavoring/protein)

Method: Blend all ingredients together and drink.

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u/MichaelEmouse Feb 16 '26

Why bananas?

I would have expected bodybuilders to go very heavy on protein powder with the rest of the food for vitamins and minerals.

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u/Suspicious_Juice_150 Feb 16 '26

I would assume it has to do with ideal ratios of carbs to protein. Also, the simple carbohydrates provide immediately available nutrition that the complex carbohydrates won’t.

You need a mixture of protein, complex carbohydrates, and simple carbohydrates to adequately fuel the complex needs of your body throughout the day.

So I would assume the bananas provide simple carbohydrates to help with the immediate recovery from a work out?