Eating like the pro’s
For one reason or another, some people just aren’t down for experimenting. Some, like Chasity, revel in it and thrive on doing the that necessary thing to get exactly where they want to be.
The following is authored by: Chastity Slone
There called the “Big Uglies”. The NFL’s offensive linemen. Most all tip the scale at three bills or more. When Matt Kalil decided to forgo his senior year at USC and enter the draft, the next five months he heard one thing over and over from coaches, “so how much do you think you can weigh?”
Matt Kalil
Position: Tackle
Age: 23
Height: 6’7″
Weight: 306
Body Fat: 17%
Calories/Day: 7000
Concussions and suicides are the NFL’s top issues right now. But men whose job it is to protect the “superstars” are invisible to us; after all, they don’t carry the ball and score touchdowns. This despite the fact that a recent National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health study determined that NFL players with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more during their careers (clinically obese) are 2x as likely to die of heart disease as their teammates. - (ESPN the Mag; Valkenburg)
-The left tackle is blessed with the kind of blazing metabolism most of us would kill for. (Valkenburg)
Which is why at the help of his teams nutritionist, he eats every two hours with a meal consisting of mounds of chicken Alfredo and Penna pasta, piles of carrots and bell peppers, a stack of potato wedged french fries and a thick piece of garlic bread. Every night regardless of whatever else he has eaten that day, he downs a 1,200 calorie protein shake with peanut butter blended in.
-if he drinks the grainy gunk to soon before bed, it will give him painful acid reflux and keep him awake for hours – as if his digestive system is staging a revolt. (Valkenburg)
In 1970, there was one NFL player who weighed 300-plus pounds. Last season, there were 360.
Chastity Slone
Goal: Games Athlete
Age: 38
Height: 5’7″
Weight: 141
Body Fat: 10%
Calories/Day: 3,000
Currently sitting down to my second meal today. Half a pound of shredded chicken with a grape-seed oil dressing. Five ounces of spaghetti squash, 2oz of pistachios and cashews and 2 tbsp. of Cap-tri = Approximately 850 calories.
I, like Matt Kalil, have a raging metabolism (furnace, if you will). It would be easier for me to attain the look of Christmas Abbott (whom I currently stalk:) rather than that of games competitor, Katie Hogan. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see I need to up my calories in order to move the scale. Remember, my goal is to be able to move 150lbs as fast as I move 140lbs. Inevitably I have to train at that weight for a while so that I become efficient at moving that weight. If the Open starts mid February, I have possible until December to get there, train at that weight for approximately a month, then decide if I come down somewhat will it help me or hinder reaching my goal.
Compare the nutritional plans. Who is taking a great risk in order to reach his dream? Compare body types. There’s not a big difference between mine and Kalil. Both need many more calories to reach and sustain our dreams. Compare the discipline to your own. No matter the goal, when (not if) you reach a plateau, no matter who you are, no matter what profession or how much money you make or the color of your skin…you have to give a little more. You have to crank it up a little hotter.
Strength:
Power Clean
8×1@75%-80% 1RM
EMOM
Power Snatch
8×1@75%-80% 1RM
EMOM
For score:
3-Bar-ups
9-Burpees
18-Double unders
AMRAP 10 Minutes
Auxiliary:
Alternating Pause-pistols
AMRAP 4 Minutes
*A pause pistol contains a (3) second pause at bottom of each rep.
Post impression to comments.
Apparently no one is actually working out at PCF today…apparently no one has an opinion about a great post….apparently everyone desires to do “Heavy Fran” as the beginning of Wednesday’s training.
Love you Chas. Love everything you do, write, say…taking a much needed rest day after two days of killer wods. PLEASE don’t make me do heavy fran this week!!!
Your looking stronger than ever Chas!
3 (m) attempted 3 bar ups each round
23 pistols (easier to do in oly shoes! )
jb-
I will be working out at 530. please no heavy fran.
In the interest of sparking conversation- I am curious what you think about Kalil’s diet. Obviously he needs some bodyfat and heft- but it seems like most of the bulk is coming thru carbs. What would be your dietary prescription for someone in his situation that needs his heft?
OTHER PEOPLE PLEASE START COMMENTING NOW
Nice Joel, flatter the programer by asking his opinion which he loves to give….
And yes, I totally disagree with his method, but agree with his freedom to implement the choice. Meaning, assuming your cool with risks involved, and money means more than health, then go for it.
I would have him load up on oils, coconut, avocados, fats of all sources. Then I would go to sweet potatoes, squash and pumpkin. It that wasn’t enough, liquid calories like almond and coconut milks, then butters.
Enjoyed a little personal training with Stephen and Ty at noon.
Stephen-Pcleans are sharp. Psnatch – let’s keep workin the pull under you demo-ed on your last one to help you as weight gets heavier.
Ty-breathe! this is practice time, right!? hip to bar progression comin’ along today. pistols by the end of year.
Just getting around to posting my numbers:
2 +21 trying to get those double unders
I agree, most of his calories are coming from carbs, and that huge shake at the end of the night. Computing his BMI it’s 34.6 but has a body fat of 17%! I”m comfused does that just prove that body fat is the better way to measure a person’s health? If so, then why do most health professional’s go off of BMI?
I also found the ending statistic to be surprising. Just shows the way food has played a part in our sports.
Robyn
Yes BMI is outdated for the most part, a reference that punishes those who gain muscle.
Crank that shit up Chas! Can’t wait to see you breathing fire during the opens!
This WOD made me feel like a CrossFit pup again. Lots of M’s for this guy. Sometimes you need those WOD’s.
Foster and Ry, thanks for the help with pistols.
Joel, I’m curious too what jb would recommend for an NFL lineman to put on and keep sufficient size. I imagine you would say increase fats and throw in some sweet potatoes, but something tells me that’s not gonna keep Kalil at 300+ lbs. I do know for a fact however, that if you eat 1 pound of nuts a day, you can gain about 10 lbs in a week! I don’t recommend that, however lol.
oh..and bring on heavy fran, sounds kinda fun
Ty
Posted before I saw this….good call, and it would be hard to keep the weight on
Ahh! there’s the questions that I wanted you to have!! Great questions, gang. I look forward to Josh’s answers.
Remember sometimes optimal health is not the goal. Being an NFL lineman is one profession that crosses the line from health to what it may take to survive and thrive at their job. The example of meals alone I was given in the article I read on Kalil makes for a super unhealthy man but a giant at his job.
These men, if they don’t drop the weight after the NFL can die from obstructive sleep apnea related to sleeping disorders such as the case of Reggie White who at the age of 43 past away.
I read the same article in ESPN magazine. It was absolutely mind blowing what these guys put their bodies through for a paycheck. The sad fact was how few of them that take the weight off after retirement.
I believe CrossFit and the Paleo lifestyle may be the answer for some of (all) theses guys, post retirement. There is structure in Crossfit which most athletes thrive on, as well as the competition factor which is what most of these guys miss the most after they hang up the cleats.
CrossFit for the win…again.
3 rds RX
As for Fran. In the words of gilligan “you can’t make me you can’t make me” and then the skipper made him. I know most of you young pcfers won’t get this. It was when T.V. was great and not trash.
JN – I’m gonna put that on a shirt.
Thanks
Your tank should say “Crank it up like Chas”
Awesome idea
Will be WODing at 630…just as long as Presley doc appointment doesnt go over…
Chas you are beyond awesome and I dont think…I know you will be kicking ass and taking names come Open time…hell, you do that now!!!
As for heavy Fran….I say this…”Fran” is gonna suck no matter what weight…no matter what modifications you have to make….no matter what “Fran” will never be something that is used in the same sentence as the word glee….but at the end of the day….thats why we all love CrossFit cause it punishes us and we keep fighting…
Nice work Chas! I am still trying to play with my caloric intake as I have plateaued a bit. Nice work by all at the 5:30 class, thanks Foster for the tips today
5+10 (m)
Chas, you never cease to amaze (and teach) me!
3+ 9 m
Thanks to Kylee for bringing your family along tonight. Great work.
Thank you for your service to our country. God Bless!
4 rounds (m). 1 bar up/round
Loving how people started posting comments after that first comment
bring it on Fran!!
Good job 6:30.
We found the cure to an empty blog-”Fran anyway anyhow”
Mindy did great with 800 athletes swinging from bars and hoping over each other.
6+12
ps….we are still doing Heavy Fran Wed
6:30 thank you for welcoming our visitors so warmly. Kylie- it was really touching to see you give your sister such a tribute, and a well deserved one at that.
Chas- you are many things to me… my friend, my competition on the wod floor, and my role model for so many reasons all rolled into one. LOVE having you back on the wod floor pushing me that much harder. Doing the open next to you is going to be fun
JN- She’s crankin it up
Thank you, mindy. And thank you, Cindy and Shelly and Renee and Nick and Mitchell Too kind. I appreciate your words!
2+10
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