For Those Who Could Not Attend
Reading 19 01 2019
Crowd :-
Referee - Andy Woolmer
Attendance: 26,404
Team :-
Roos, Bogle, Keogh, Tomori, Malone
Huddlestone
Wilson, Mount,
Holmes, Marriott. Waghorn
Subs :- Mitchell, Buchanan, T Wilson, Bird, Jozefzoon, Evans, Nugent,
Conditions. Pitch immaculate, bitterly cold and grey.
After our storming win v Soton on Wednesday, hopes are high that the lads can recover their vigour and put one over Reading. The fear I suppose is our lads having not enough recovery time and the performances of their team replacements. And the 3 points are extremely important. So it was that Derby started where they had left off on Wednesday. Plenty of energy and quick accurate passing and it was no surprise that Holmes scored after just 2 minutes. He ran onto a ball following an interchange between Huddlestone and Wilson and simple netted for his first senior goal for Derby. Derby maintained their superiority for 2 minutes or so when they could have put the game out of sight by failing to convert any of some 3 or 4 chances. Reading then began to assert themselves by some good possession football which Derby defended excellently, until 5 minutes before half time Wilson received an excellent pass by Waghorn. Wilson hit his shot well but it took a deflection to completely defeat their goalie.
The second half was an entirely different matter. Readiing had much more of the ball and caused Derby all sorts of problems. For a long spell of Reading domination Derby’s defence was stretched and tested very thoroughly until, on 66 minutes they pulled one back through some excellent approach work allowing Aluko to score. From then on they attacked more and more but somehow Derby’s defence kept them out. Inevitable Derby had some close attempts too as Reading went in search of the equaliser. Fortunately it never came and the first Home win for a while was notched up. It was a sound defensive performance by Derby in which all defenders and others especially Waghorn, played their part. 3 points were well won against a side that got better and better as the game went on. Derby had only 35% possession so by Strett’s Law Reading won the game but lost the points.
Roos had another excellent game. Speculation over the reason for Carson’s absence was scotched by Frank when he informed us that he had a knee injury. But I think we can be pleased
That we have an excellent understudy. Roos distribution is n[better that Scott’s I think. And he very confidently claimed a number of high balls. On one occasion he raced out of his area as far as the touch line to put in a super tackle on McLeary to stifle a very dangerous Reading move. Bogle played well enough with a few mistakes and a lot of creative endeavour. Malone was good - perhaps inspired to perform by the signing of Ashley Cole.
Keogh and Tomori both defended well though it was a Tomori mistake that led to their goal. Huddlestone made some great passes but visibly tired. Wilson was always a handful as was Mount. Waghorn was voted MOTM and he certainly put in a good vigorous performance. He was especially helpful in defence tracking back and doing what he could to disrupt Readings increasingly dangerous attacks. Holmes deserved his goal and is proving to be a very signing. Marriott tried hard and caused problems until he was removed for Bennett.
The referee was good in parts and bad in parts - I suppose that is how it is (and has always been). Finally Reading, they were terrible in the first half but look likely to survive as they showed many good qualities in the second half
For Those Who Could not Attend
posted on 23/1/19
comment by Harper - Ram in Auckland. Clickage is afoot. (U13926)
posted 10 hours, 39 minutes ago
I'm not a fan of salmon at all. So no. I'm currently eating chicken and beef jerky for my morning protein hit, need to get 200g of protein a day.
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No you don't. The body can't process 200g of protein unless you are using certain chemicals or in a teenage growth spurt. All you are doing is weeing out a lot of urea.
posted on 23/1/19
Forget low carbs and high protein diets. Go for high fibre. The rest - fats, protein and carbs - will take care of themselves.
posted on 23/1/19
Not for Harper, he wants his thighs to be massive for some reason. High fibre won't help with that.
posted on 23/1/19
To make Harper needs 16 amino acids. 9 of these come from the food he eats and 7 are synthesised by the body. Thus it doesn't matter how much protein we eat what determines the amount converted in your own cells is the amino acids you synthesise. Certain hormones e.g. testosterone and their chemically similar compounds e.g steroids will help you synthesise more amino acids. An average human needs to consume around 50g of protein a day of which they will convert about 30g in to their own cells for growth or repair. The bulk of the protein we eat is converted in to urea and is then toxic so leaves via the kidneys. Consuming too much protein can lead to incomplete conversion to urea and you synthesise uric acid which can cause kidney stones and gout.
The amazingly strong English bowmen of the middle ages consumed a diet very low in protein. They could pull a bow with 180 pounds tension, something not men can do today. The gentry consumed an enormously high amount of protein and suffered with gout.
posted on 23/1/19
Very interesting Spart. Sounds authoritative too, which always helps. I think I'll stick to eating food.
posted on 23/1/19
comment by Harper - Ram in Auckland. Clickage is afoot. (U13926)
posted 18 hours, 53 minutes ago
I'm not a fan of salmon at all. So no. I'm currently eating chicken and beef jerky for my morning protein hit, need to get 200g of protein a day.
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The salmon fins and their meat are really great on a hot day with an ice cold beer (or and nice cold beer). Or a glass of chilled Sauvignon Blanc (Marlborough of course).
posted on 23/1/19
It's a pretty standard thing for those wanting to put on muscle and strength to consume 1g of protein per 1lb of bodyweight. Everything I've ever read has suggested this is the way. From what I've read, it's an urban myth that the body can't process excess protein. Muscle needs protein to heal and rebuild/reinforce. There are many studies stating very similar numbers. I get plenty of fibre from all the vegetables I eat. Carbs I work on whether or not I'll be training and eat as necessary the night before and in the morning so get them into my system, but no carbs within 3 hours of training (bad idea as your body goes into rest and digest mode). I also supplement with creatine and BCAAs. Never had kidney stones, never had gout. I poo twice a day minimum, sometimes 3 so I'm nice and regular. I'm captain healthy.
posted on 23/1/19
You still smoking Harps?
posted on 23/1/19
It's standard biology not an urban myth Harps. The food supplements companies produce a lot of bull to sell their products. For example the rehydration drinks, The Australian Institute of Sport did a double blind test on athletes who trained with water or rehydration drinks or none at all. They did it by having back packs which fed them intravenously so none of the athletes knew what they were getting. The results were no difference in performance.
I can assure you that if you took a urine sample after consuming these supplements you find increased urea in your urine. Building muscle is a slow process as every body builder knows. It is quite a difficult synthesis to take lots of different amino acids to make one specific protein so it is bound to be slow. It's not like fat which is a fairly simple synthesis, hence it is quick and easy to put on fat. As you say we need protein to grow and repair. After 35 we only need it to repair unless you cheat and take HGH as Sylvester Stallone does. Training just breaks down the muscle and proteins are sent to the site to repair but they are still only produced at a relatively slow rate unless you cheat with steroids.
posted on 23/1/19
No Igor, I quit 3 months ago using nicotine gum and haven't touched one since. I've also stopped eating bread, cut coffee down to just one cup when I wake up and drink green tea and water during the day instead, and have upped my intake of fruit and vegetables (I've always eaten a decent amount of veg now I just eat an extra serving a day. I feel bloody marvelous.
Spart, yes those hydration drinks are smoke and mirrors, I never touch them I just gulp down water in the gym. Creatine works, that's been scientifically proven. I always take a pre workout as it fires me up way more than training without it. Protein is contentious, there are studies contradicting each other, I read one earlier saying men need about 50g a day if not particularly active, whereas men who are doing sports, weight training etc need approx 125g a day. I'm not a bodybuilder, my aim is to compete in masters powerlifting when I turn 40 in 3 years time, so for me it's purely about strength and conditioning, I'm in the gym lifting hard and heavy 4 days a week then on Sundays I go to the pool and do swim sprint intervals for half an hour. I need to be in a calorie surplus, which I am, but it's good calories as I'm a fairly lean 96kg, clearly visible abs so body fat is down around 12% at a guess.
Specifics of nutrition isn't my strong point yet, it's obvious what foods are good or bad, but I'm now starting to look into it more scientifically with the timings and contents to give myself the best possible chance of progress.
If any of you frequent Instagram my username is project_get_paul_strong. It's my blog of gym progress and healthy food.