No Excuses! Busy as Hell & Getting It Done!

A good friend and former football player of mine, Max Sall is in his freshman season of wrestling at Ohio State (Nice work!). If you know anything about wrestling then you know that there are weight classes and that practices are frequent and grueling.
Max came to me today saying that practice and lifting is "kicking his ass." He would never admit to this during football so this must be for real! He said he is ingesting some bcaa's around training time and his helping him a little bit. He also says he's considering consuming a post workout shake of 15-30 grams of whey protein. His breakfast consist of a "detour" bar, a banana, and some nuts. Other than that he's not eating too much in fear of not making weight. He also say's that he'd like some help eating to maintain energy levels and ultimately his weight class.
I gave Max some simple advice on how to eat properly and fairly inexpensively while competing very hard at wrestling and devoting the rest of his time to classes. Here's a summary of what we decided on, and so far it's working pretty well:

-Nut Butters (cashew, almond, peanut)
-Raw Unsalted Nuts
-whole hard boiled eggs
-Fish Oil
-olive oil
-Organic Honey
-Ezekiel Bread
-Coconut Oil
-Whey protein powder
-Berries
-Greek Yogurt
-baby spinach
-steak
-chicken
-any "free range" meats Max can find locally
-I'd get a "Greens" powder such as Designs for Health's Paleo Greens or Biotest's Superfood to drink with breakfast and dinner to keep your immune system up during the physiologicaly stressful wrestling season since eating tons of veggies won't be too practical.

We then came up with a meal plan using these foods that I'm not going to detail as much. We made breakfast, lunch and his two mid meal snacks mostly consisting of protein and fats to keep blood sugar stable and keep Max mentally ready for a grueling practice session. His snack after lunch about 90 minutes before practice I alotted a space for some carboyhdrates such as berries, honey and ezekiel bread. We couple this with some hard boiled eggs, nuts, and greek yogurt. Max makes a branched chain amino acid drink to drink before and during practice. He uses 10 grams before practice, 10 grams during practice and another 15-20 after practice. Max says this has helped sustain his energy levels during these 2-3 hour sweat-a-thons. After practice he'll have a whey protein drink of about 40-50 grams and follow that up with a meal when he gets back to the dorms. This meal he takes down a meat source, a bowl of fruit and some vegetables. He'll then have a protein/fat snack later in the evening before bed.

Max is due to report back to me over the upcoming holliday break. So far he's making his weight class no problem and his energy levels are up. We may go visit BK at Power Performance so we might have some live Max training footage and diet update.
BK is the real deal with the nutrition aspect of things, give his blog a look: http://benknappgaragetraining.blogspot.com

Max isn't letting a hectic lifestyle get in his way, are you?