Thanks man!Thinking back on this I don’t remember what I used to eat on meet days. It’s been over 15 years since I competed but I’ve got about 20 meets under my belt. I do remember eating fast food for lunch at a lot of meets but that’s about it. I always had snacks like energy bars, Gatorade and water. Meets can be very hectic and timing meals is difficult. It is important to eat something but don’t do anything crazy. Eat only foods your body is used to. Some meets have long breaks between flights and events. Others are done in less then 6 hours (rare). Just find time to eat what you can. You will be very nervous for your first several meets and your appetite will be all over the place. You probably won’t want to eat anything until after squats and the nerves subside a bit. Hunger can hit you hard when some of that adrenaline wears off so just have easy to digest stuff on hame. Good luck to you.
When is the meet? What federation and weight class?
I'm doing raw with sleevesSweet! Keep us posted. You doing raw or equipped?
Assuming 24 hour weigh ins I'll go somewhere like Bob Evans for breakfast after weighing in. Eat a ton of carbs. Then pizza or burgers for lunch and pasta for dinner. Throughout the day I'll drink whole milk and eat high sodium and carb snacks. Pretty much go nuts the day before.
Then on meet day I'll have granola bars, bananas, beef jerky, and pop tarts on hand. I'll drink mostly water early in the day and save the caffeine for right before my flight does deadlift. I'll have some hydration type drinks on hand too. Nothing that's going to sit too heavy in my stomach, but still keep me energized.
Nornal before bed. Light breakfast and get the coffe in early. I assume you're on the mark with your weight class?
I was always just on the upper end of my weight class but never that close. Make the weigh-in the night before and eat normal. Don't run out to PizzaHut and eat a whole meatlovers deep dish just because you made weight; there's no trophy for making weight. lol Plus if you miss the 24 hr one, you're stuck with the day of weigh-in.Thanks I was just about to ask about coffee/caffeine intake.
I'm waking up about 179-180
24hr weigh ins
Some of you may not agree with this but IMO there is no point in cutting weight unless you are attempting a world record lift or total or competing in a big money meet (which is somewhat of a joke in powerlifting, there is no money). Its just not worth all the extra stress and work to cut all that weight unless something very significant is on the line. Meets are stressful enough to begin with.
I have seen many bomb out on squat because of it!Cutting weight is like kryptonite to the powerlifter.