Tuesday

Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet.

Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.

Dan John

Training:
Press 3x5
Push-ups 2 x max reps
Body rows 2 x max reps
Rest 5 minutes
Zercher squats
Zercher lunges
Clean and press
Romanian deadlift
Bent rows
Rest 60 seconds
Reps are 10, 8, 6