Diet & Nutrition

Hey, I was wondering what everyone eats, interms of most beneficial foods for rock climbing and building muscle towards being a better climber. Also like your daily meal plans, do's and dont's of foods to eat or not. Also, if you shop at Costco, what's your "go to" foods you buy there. Thank you for your time and advice. 

I find that a good IPA really helps me be a better climber

Smoked chicken for the send. 

Cory Bwrote:

I find that a good IPA really helps me be a better climber

An IPA? as in beer?......Bro, hold my send....

Lol there is no special climbing diet and it isn't rocket appliances.

Eating clean, whole foods, minimizing excessive sodium intake, avoiding added sugars, prioritizing healthy sources of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. There's a million different ways to achieve this but the key is having a balanced diet, and having a diet/lifestyle that is sustainable over the long term (years and decades). Don't think too much about tracking calories etc. because that can quickly and easily turn into disordered eating. You should be enjoying what you eat.

Drink 3-5 liters of water a day.

The only special thing I add to my diet is tart cherry juice, or dried tart cherries. I normally eat dried fruit for a bedtime snack/dessert and add these in for their multitude of data-supported benefits.

Oh, and Metamucil. My onsite jumped one entire grade when I started taking Metamucil because I shit so often. Less weight holding me back bro

I eat five cookies a daily and nearly fell off a 5.6 today if that’s any help

Breakfast, English muffin, cream cheese, egg

Lunch, PB and Jelly

Dinner, Pizza

Dessert, ice cream and chocolate

There is a decent book I read on this topic.

Meat and vegetables.  

There is a lunatic on here who eats 6 ice cream sandwhichs a day.

Beer, and lots of it.

almonds, dried fruit,  powdered protein / weight gainer, 2 gallons water per day if available, electrolyte supplement.  For week-long excursions, a pressure-cooker and "real food"

russian imperial stout (Old Rasputin's) upon return

-Haireball

I switched to only eating red meat I shoot(venison,rabbit), farm eggs, and fish(sockeye,chinook,perch, walleye,pike)I catch and I’ll never go back to store bought meat or eggs. I also like knowing the meat was properly cleaned and the animal was treated ethnically and respectfully through the process. 

I’ve found scraitch stuff to be great; then again I’m in college balancing classes with climbing, so often have to choose between grabbing food from the dining hall or climbing. The scraitch stuff is fantastic for long days if I haven’t had a chance to get food beforehand at the crag to keep energy going. Also jerky; lots and lots of jerky. Kalahari biltong is really tasty and good flash fuel. Not sponsored by either, to clarify. Nuts are good for munching on; not the aluminum ones, to clarify, but almonds, cashews, etc. macadamia nuts=rocket fuel of course but they’re heinously expensive. 

ZT Gwrote:

I switched to only eating red meat I shoot(venison,rabbit), farm eggs, and fish(sockeye,chinook,perch, walleye,pike)I catch and I’ll never go back to store bought meat or eggs. I also like knowing the meat was properly cleaned and the animal was treated ethnically and respectfully through the process. 

I am not a vegetarian so am not opposed to the killing and eating of animals but I find it a bit thin when people kill, gut and eat something and say it was done ethically and with respect. Yup I respect you and now I am going to kill you and eat you. 

Years ago, after a long Fall day in the valley, I downed a pint of stout right before falling asleep in my tent. I woke up the next day before the sunrise and climbed my hardest routes that day. 

I didn't drink much those days, but something about being dead tired and the beer the night before gave me an awesome night's rest and a great jolt of energy the next day. Could never replicate it again...

Kevinmurraywrote:

I am not a vegetarian so am not opposed to the killing and eating of animals but I find it a bit thin when people kill, gut and eat something and say it was done ethically and with respect. I respect you and now I am going to kill you and eat you. 

That’a exactly how I feel too 

Jonathan Walker wrote:

Why do you ask what you already know? Just commit and fucking do it.

Well..no, I don't know, that's why I'm asking more experienced people, to gain more collective knowledge...calm down...

Kevinmurraywrote:

I am not a vegetarian so am not opposed to the killing and eating of animals but I find it a bit thin when people kill, gut and eat something and say it was done ethically and with respect. Yup I respect you and now I am going to kill you and eat you. 

…but to clarify, you think your consumption of meat is also unethical? 

There is a lot less suffering involved in a wild animal being killed quickly and humanely than A. How an animal would probably die in “the wild,” by starvation, getting eaten alive, or hit by a car or B. An intelligent sentient creature that lives most of it’s life sick in a cage.

Isaac Gromackiwrote:

…but to clarify, you think your consumption of meat is also unethical? 

There is a lot less suffering involved in a wild animal being killed quickly and humanely than A. How an animal would probably die in “the wild,” by starvation, getting eaten alive, or hit by a car or B. An intelligent sentient creature that lives most of it’s life sick in a cage.

I have no ethical problem eating meat regardless of how they are killed but the main point of the original post is that it is somehow better to shoot an animal in the wild than in a pen. Same thing to me a dead animal is a dead animal. We raise them for food so to me there is no difference how they are killed. Now do you think it would be more humane to shoot people in a bank like in Kentucky today or in their bedroom. I have been around cows, not much intelligence behind those eyes.

Kevinmurraywrote:I have been around cows, not much intelligence behind those eyes.

Let it go Kevin it’s about OP’s diet, not your opinion  on hunting that no one’s interested in.

They say you become a product of your surroundings, ya know?