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James Lackey
15-Apr-2006
Thoughts on Diet and Training, from
James Lackey
When training for the 2004 Grand nationals for BMX, I came to the conclusion about six weeks out, I could do "more" was a perfect "diet." That was an answer to the question "are you doing everything possible to succeed"
I knew the "gist" of diets from the Army. I had anecdotal evidence of "what was best for me" in my many years of racing. Now I just had to find the exact formula, routine to maintain power to weight ratio and to so called "Peak 6 weeks hence." The exact calories for 6 days of vigorous training and racing was divided to Protein 240 G carbs 287 G and Fat 47G with a 10% increase every 3rd day.
I had 2 problems. The first was my stealth tactic of arriving a week early and racing the grands track and not practicing the "event practice" two practice days prior to the race. The tactic was to rest while others worked, to be at my best after 12 hours of Qualifiers on Sat and 6 hours of Semi finals on Sunday and hopefully peak Sunday at 5pm. That seemingly was a huge edge as 50 of my friends did that routine for 2005.
My biggest problem is always on race day. I can't eat. Its much like a marathon racer that cant eat for the duration of the pre race and race. A simple solution of carb packs, sugar or Red bull as we do not have problems with dehydration prior to a 60 second sprint.
The problem is not being amped for the lap after one hour of rest prior to each 60 second sprint. On Sunday, you can be eliminated at any single race by not making the top 4 in the semis. All season I tested Red bull, sugar (look both ways caffeine which everyone said was stupid as it dehydrates you) Anyways almost everything caused a sharp spike and gave me the shakes and I smacked the starting gate, over cleared the first set of double jumps etc. It was in my head that none would work. What I did was wake up at 5 am eat pancakes, take a nap and diluted 50% Gatorade and water all day all season.
I stumbled on to 2 things that worked for me. One was an slight increase in body fat to carry me through the weekend. Next was caffeine to actually dehydrate myself by 5 pounds just prior to the end of the day, (after being over-hydrated all day) then a quick gulp of sugar (alertness) and a water bottle to keep mouth wet in staging lanes. It all seemingly worked. My fastest lap times and best performances were always in the main events.
Back to the point of food harmonics. I read all sorts of studies on Almonds carry a certain frequency etc and I kinda just gave research up there. It was too far over my head or mumbo. I dunno I just stopped.
However I did find what Vic has said many times about over all health. The amount of time food stays in the body has a correlation to overall health. It certainly did with performance. I did not eat much or any meat for protein 10 days prior to the Grands. It was protein bars/ nuts that supplied all my daily Fat and Protein requirements. It was awful. Yet, between training, resting, a bit of strategy that was successful Ive never felt better in my life.
Perhaps there is much to be said for working out, simple carbs, nuts and food harmonics. There are certain bottles drugs and supps that help (supposedly) the bodies ability to release lactic acid. That is every athletes "wall" I never bought into that idea as with any drug or performance enhancing agent, once you are with out it or wrong amount you are worse off than baseline. Therefore I always used training and work to hit the wall 1-foot after the finish line.
"Patrick said adding or subtracting anything from the eventually arrived at ratio, just lowered the frequency. (It wound up with 10 different ingredients). Research indicates that foods with an over- ride frequency of 72MHz or greater increase the body's bioelectric energy. Foods below 72 MHz deplete the body's energy.
Patrick says cost was never considered, only foods that potentiate the greatest life force energy were chosen. (This would explain their higher cost). He measures processed foods from 10MHz to 30MHz, fresh organically grown foods from 30MHz to 80MHz, and an average of 83MHz for ordinary super-food products. (Thus, his claim Life Source provides up to 36% more vital energy)."
James Lackey is a Florida trader.
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