HOT TOPIC: Worst thing you've eaten in the name of training?

[Ash]

With the recent posts about tuna shakes and even worse - raw liver shakes, I was wondering what's the worst thing you've ever eaten (or drunk) as part of your training?

I'll start off with:

1. A shake made with Brewers Yeast powder, milk and raw eggs. Terrible indeed - this is what they give you to drink in hell! :twisted:

2. Tribulus powder. When I ran out of vegecaps and didn't want to miss my daily dose, I thought I could just chug the contents of 3 of the caps with some water. There is a technique to that and if you get it wrong....beware! The taste doesn't go away for a long while. :pale:

Any other horror stories out there?

[Pseudonym]

My first attempt at egg white omlettes was pretty nasty. It was mostly (perhaps entirely) made of egg whites, and it was cooked in the microwave. This produces a grey, rubbery thing that reeks of sulphur. I ate it. But I never cooked it that way again.

There was also an unfortunate incident involving porridge and tuna. Thankfully, the details of that memory seem to have been suppressed - it was obviously all too traumatic for me.

[Growth]

I thought I could just chug the contents of 3 of the caps with some water. There is a technique to that and if you get it wrong....beware! The taste doesn't go away for a long while. :pale:

Ive tried this, taste pretty vile, a bit like wood shavings :shock: how would i know that?

a long time ago i bought some bulk arginine and ornathine powders, mixed together in water they tasted BAD

[frogie2001]

i think i once made a proteing powder, rolled oats pancake thing. hard, dray rubbery and all round bloody aweful. I can strongly suggest that these should never be combined under any circumstances

[jono]

dry mushy unflavored tuna first thing in the morning.

raw eggs + raw oats shake

beef that had been sitting in the fridge too long and had gone off.

[deegee]

My own home made protien bars an all round disaster, never tried again but i forced everyone of them down though.

[Pseudonym]

My own home made protien bars an all round disaster, never tried again but i forced everyone of them down though.

Oh, jeez... I'd forgotten about them! :shock:

Being of a scientific nature, I experimented with three batches - each one slightly different. It was all I could do to gag down half of one batch. The other two were completely inedible. God, that was a sad day, having to admit defeat, and wasting these huge slabs of high-protein concrete.

[Varven]

protein bar recipe:

1 cup of peanut butter

8 spoons of honey

1 cup of whey

1 cup of oatmeal.

Heat Peanut butter and honey in microwave for 90 secs.

Mix in whey and and oatmeal.

WARNIN : THE HEATED PEANUT BUTTER AND HONEY WILL BE VERY HOT. DONT JUST STICK YOUR HANDS IN OR YOU WILL BE BURNT.

mix in thoroughly.

set in a 13 by 9 tray and allow to cool.

Cut in slabs later on, wrap and refrigerate.

Very nutritious,

loads of good carbs, fats and proteins.

Wouldnt reccomend these for some on a cut diet generally.

But great for that high calorie quick fix or missed meal etc.

best,

V.V.

[Flex]

Hard to pin it on any one food - worst thing would have to be a 1200 cal ketogenic diet - I managed 18 days on Flax seed oil and whey protein - the first 8 or so were solely flax oil and whey (plus orange metamucil for fibre), and then added some tuna and mayo, cheese and eggs. Lost a lot of fat but was pretty sick of it by the end and was really happy when I added carbs back in.

This is followed closely by the Body Opus Diet - cheese, eggs, tuna, mayo, steak, flax oil, whey protein for 5 days followed by 2 days carbo loading - eating every 2 hours or so - liquid glucose, maltodextrin, dextrose powder. Did this for around 14 weeks total in prep for summer a couple of times - in cycles of about 4 to 6 weeks. Lost stacks of fat and gained a fair bit of muscle but haven't been brave enough to attempt it again.

[waldo]

Hard to pin it on any one food - worst thing would have to be a 1200 cal ketogenic diet - I managed 18 days on Flax seed oil and whey protein - the first 8 or so were solely flax oil and whey (plus orange metamucil for fibre), and then added some tuna and mayo, cheese and eggs. Lost a lot of fat but was pretty sick of it by the end and was really happy when I added carbs back in.

This is followed closely by the Body Opus Diet - cheese, eggs, tuna, mayo, steak, flax oil, whey protein for 5 days followed by 2 days carbo loading - eating every 2 hours or so - liquid glucose, maltodextrin, dextrose powder. Did this for around 14 weeks total in prep for summer a couple of times - in cycles of about 4 to 6 weeks. Lost stacks of fat and gained a fair bit of muscle but haven't been brave enough to attempt it again.

Hehehe, Body Opus! Lost seven kilos in two and a half weeks on that before I got REAL sick and also developed a nasty case of scabies....moral of the story: Make sure you get your vitamins when doing stupid diets!

Worst meal: Egg white ommlette with a tin of cold tuna wrapped inside. That was nice....

[Ash]

Worst meal: Egg white ommlette with a tin of cold tuna wrapped inside. That was nice....

Did you take the tuna out of the tin before adding it to the eggs?

[frogie2001]

tuna is the most evil thing to have without covering in chilie sauce and warming up. I went to a gym once where they sold protein shakes.

2 scoops of growth

2 cups of milk

1 tble spoon flax seed oil

1 banana

and a can of tuna in there for good measure

I never worked up the courage to try it, but the protein hit would have been enough to knock out an elepahnt,