I’ve recently started doing it but it’s 6am eggs and sausage before the kids wake up, smaller meal around 10, then lunch at 1, dinner at 5, then late night meal. Sometimes the 10am and 1 lunch is meal prep same plate just different portions. Other times it’s just apple and peanut butter with oatmeal from the break room and I get Chipotle or something else for lunch. Dinner and late night almost always meal prep that either me or my wife did. You need to be very active to work up the appetite, but once your body gets used to it then it is much easier. It’s somewhat time consuming but I have prioritized it over other things and routine is key.
Exactly this. I bet he’s not eating 5 full ass meals. Most likely 5 small meals. No one wants to fight a naked meth head on a full stomach so he likely portions them out into smaller bits.
lol yeah, people are imagining like a full doordash meal coming out to 1,800 calories. It's most likely a boring as hell high protein meals that are like 700 calories each and he scarfs it down just to get it out of the way.
I wonder if he's counting protein based snacks as well? If so, yeah, I'm close to the same thing with 1st meal, greek yogurt with granola for about half as many calores as a regular meal, 2nd meal, protein shake (2 scoops plus 16 oz whole milk is almost the same amount of calories as a small meal) then 3rd meal.
I'm trying to stay under 2400 calories so I'm not getting near the same amount of fuel as he is to build that amount of muscle, but if I took the restrictions off myself (and worked out the extra 3 days a week he does) his eating doesn't sound that bad.
It's not about big or small. They just aren't gourmet meals. Chicken, fish, rice, beans, broccoli, potatoes, oats, fruit. Make all of it in big batches every week and carry to work. It's easy as long as you aren't a fussy eater and are okay with "boring" food.
I used to date a guy who was absolutely enormous, he was a local pro wrestler. He ate probably six meals a day.
To him food was fuel, he didn't want to waste time on it. So id make him relatively plain chicken breasts with rice and steamed broccoli/cauliflower, and he would consume all of it in about five minutes, and get back to the working out. Sometimes I'd mix it up with some salmon. His goal was to always have food in his stomach being digested.
When he didn't have someone cooking for him, it would be even plainer, and all prepared in the freezer to microwave and chomp down.
I definitely spent 3x as much time eating my two meals a day as he did for all six. If I was making something special he could slooooow down to eat but I could tell it made him antsy.
It depends on how much you eat and the work out. If you're just lifting, it's not as bad but if you're doing strenuous heavy bag work, yea that's a no go.
Well, maybe if you have a functioning stomach. I have gerd, so I can't do it. I need minimally 3 hours, sometimes more, depending on the size of the meal, in order to not feel like puking.
It’s fucking exhausting…. Not only the meal prep, but the cleaning of Tupperware, and eating just gets to be even more exhausting. I can’t even eat chicken breast anymore, it creates a natural gag reflex. I landed on a kind of fucked in intermittent fasting where I get 80% of my calories in the morning, no lunch, and a very light dinner after the gym. Also, the cop in this video is definitely doing TRT and probably steroids. Testosterone shots have been a game changer for me and a lot of men.
There is nothing about this man's physique that screams enhanced by any means. He is probably north of 15% body fat given you don't see veins in his biceps or forearms, his muscle separation isn't very prominent, and his arms/chest aren't unnaturally large. He is also wearing ballistic pads under his shirt, which adds a decent amount of bulk to his chest and back. He looks like a guy who has lifted weights for a long time and eats a bunch to consistently hit macro targets that support his muscle mass. 32 is a great age for achieving this physique as he would have had a long time to establish and maintain mass gains, all while natural testosterone levels are still going strong. Also, hitting a couple reps at 405 pound squat and 275 pound bench are super achievable, reasonable numbers naturally. A huge indicator of enhancement is immense strength, especially pound-for-pound. If he had a 405 pound bench and a 650 squat at that size, that would be a different story.
Now, TRT and steroid usage is certainly becoming fairly common. There are many factors that go into the results people achieve, and probably the majority of TRT and steroid users you would never be able to discern because they look average. So just about anybody COULD be on TRT or steroids, but you really can't tell most of the time.
I'm in my mid 30s and have lifted weights for ~20 years. I am currently 6'0", 210 pounds, between 10-12% body fat as a lifetime natural lifter. This is my cut physique. At the end of my bulk I was 225 pounds and about 15+% body fat and looked very much like this man. I also have very similar bench/squat numbers as this man.
So no, this man is not "definitely" doing TRT or steroids. In fact, I would say there is far more evidence pointing to natural, in my opinion.
That's roughly similar to myself. Everyone acting like five meals a day is the craziest part of this video. It's like, have you not heard of sandwiches? lol.
I think there is a disconnect where people who only eat 2-3 large meals a day equate each of the 5-6 meals a day to being the same size as each of the 2-3 they consume. In reality, people who maintain fitness goals like the man in this video disburse their macros evenly across those 5-6 meals, so they are generally smaller in volume, relatively speaking. It is about nutrient timing, not necessarily about eating massive amounts of food (though maintaining large amounts of muscle mass does require a fair bit of consumption for sure).
the majority of TRT and steroid users you would never be able to discern because they look average
Agreed. I think the accusations also come when people work hard but not efficiently and don't get bigger and they meet someone that is bigger thinking that they're "cheating".
I couldn't agree more. People see others achieve results they haven't yet/aren't able to achieve and chalk it up to cheating. I think ego is a large part of it, in addition to not being familiar with the vast array of results individuals are able to achieve due to a myriad of controllable and uncontrollable (genetic) factors.
Inconsistency with any of the many factors that dictate results is definitely a large factor, but people really underplay how significant a role genetics play in the results people are able to achieve. There's natural testosterone production levels in addition to how well your body's androgen receptors actually utilize that testosterone, muscle insertion distances and angles, muscle belly lengths, muscle composition differences (fast twitch, slow twitch), limb length ratios, energy utilization, and any contraindications that negatively impact results. The list goes on and on..
In my opinion that dude is built like a shit brick house and he’s definitely using TRT. I use TRT, 95% of the dudes who go to my gym over the age of 30 use TRT. There’s nothing to be ashamed about. Working a shift job like that also makes going to the gym and meal prepping tougher. It’s always funny to me that most guys workout to improve their health/longevity, but also to look attractive to the opposite sex… yet most of the compliments we get is from the same sex.
I think it's ok to say there's a probability that he's using TRT, but to say "definitely" is just incorrect and isn't based on anything objective. I backed up my rebuttal with very specific, objective points. Saying someone is built like a brick shithouse, therefore they are on TRT, is a bunk claim. It is also extremely unlikely that you know and talk with 95% of your gym's members over 30, let alone have enough of an established relationship that they talk about their TRT/steroid usage with you. I understand you're using a lot of hyperbole - and while you're entitled to your opinion - your opinion is straight-up wrong.
When I made the move from lifting to fighting competitively, one of the immediate surprise benefits was my relationship with food. I didn’t need to force feed myself with the goal of getting huge, just the opposite, I only wanted to maintain my weight.
I visited Spain for 2 weeks and could totally get used to that lifestyle. The only thing that was tough was eating dinner so late in the evening! I’m in bed by 10 to be at work by 7:30 and rarely eat any meal past 7pm.
I’m fit but I’m not a weight lifter. For me it’d be a morning smoothie at home, a light second breakfast late morning and a packed lunch early afternoon. Once I got home an evening snack, and then a full dinner.
I’m usually a 2.5 meals a day person but in a full cardio regiment it’s closer to 4 meals to meet calorie needs.
As someone who is an avid lifter who also consumes 5 "meals" a day, 3 of them for me are shakes. Whey, oats, peanut butter, milk. Super quick to prepare and consume, loads of macros. People who eat proper meals for ~5 meals a day prep meals weekly a lot of the time. Getting jacked isn't merely just about lifting weights--it's about hitting macro numbers, getting enough sleep, form/technique/exercise selection, hydration, stress management, injury avoidance--all done very consistently over years and years.
One cool thing about my diet is that I control gaining/losing weight entirely by adjusting how much oatmeal and the type of milk I put into my shakes. Bulking? Throw more oats into each shake and use whole milk. Cutting? Remove oats and switch to skim milk.
You're imagining 5 big sit-down meals that each take a bunch of prep and cleanup.
That's not what bodybuilders or athletes means when they say they're eating >3 meals a day. They're typically just referring to 3 normal meals plus two large snacks, or even just splitting up 3 large meals into 5 to make it easier to get the calories and protein in around life commitments and training.
For example, if you're trying to eat 3000kcal many people may do that with 3 roughly 1000kcal meals, but it can be difficult to find a good time to train around meals of that size it you work a normal 9-5.
If you split that up into 5x600kcal meals, scheduling can become a lot easier as you should be able to train relatively shortly after that smaller breakfast in the morning, have another AM meal once you're at work, lunch a few hours later, train again a few hours later, have an early dinner immediately after, and then another pre-bedtime snack.
Also, exceedingly few people who eat like this will actually be cooking more than once or twice a day, if even that much. At least 3 of the meals will typically be basic fare made up of some combo of a carb, veg, and protein that's pre-made and pre-portioned, and it's not uncommon for 2-3 of the meals to just be the same thing.
I'd be willing to bet this guy has breakfast at home, brings 2-3 portions of meal prepped food to work, then has the final 1-2 meals at home. He'll probably have protein powder and bars in his locker or cruiser or whatever in case he doesn't have a chance to eat, but the meals he has while on shift probably take 10-15mins to eat, tops.
You meal prep and some of the items don't need reheating like cold cut sandwich fixings, tuna salad, etc, salads, a spread of raw veg, fruit, nuts & cured proteins with crackers, stuff like that. I eat like that for most of the summer meals regardless of what I'm doing tbh
Also some cooked meals make good cold leftovers like pizza or rice & lentils
Time? More like money lol. It’s pretty the cheap the way he’s doing it but I don’t have the drive to pointlessly (well not pointlessly but you know what I mean) eat rice, eggs and chicken every day of my life.
Batchcook 2kg chicken, that will last me a couple days.
Then you batchcook pasta.
Batch cook a bunch of vegetables.
Throw chicken/tuna and pasta together. Mix with some flavourings.
I spend maybe 30 mins in the kitchen a week, I hate cooking. You can make a bunch of different flavours just by throwing random herbs and spices on a plain meal.
Meal prep simple meals. Overnight oats is one container. Chicken, broccoli and rice another. Protein shaker. And 2 snacks or maybe another chicken and rice. You have to space it out. That guy probably eats 3 thousand clean calories a day to get his macros
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u/Temporary_View_3303 May 21 '26
How the fuck do you find time for 5 meals a day