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Bulking at work (Blue Collar)

AlwaysCovered

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I’m a union elevator constructor. I build elevators in fresh buildings. Aside from the shanty I don’t have many other amenities. But I do have 110v. So I’ll usually plug in my Hot Logic hot plate and heat up a meal or two. But typically everything else is cold. Any other blue collar guys out there that have to improvise like me? What do you guys pack for the day??
 
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@AlwaysCovered I’m an Iron worker. I do the same. I’ll bring some chicken or beef with some tortillas. I’ll eat them cold or heat them up if I can. Bring a couple protein shakes for the day as well.
 
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I’m in the trucking industry, so I completely get where ya’ll are coming from. I’m lucky that I have a lean build naturally or I would have weighed 800 lbs. I pack a cooler with various things. Sometimes tuna, chicken, turkey,…whatever. For a while, I fell into the trap of eating garbage, or going long periods with nothing to eat. Even though now I’m not eating a strict clean diet, I feel so much better packing my own food for the day. I’m an older guy, so at this stage in my life I’m not trying to get as big as possible. I’m happy with a muscular, lean body…It’s much harder for us blue collar guys to eat properly, but it absolutely can be done
 
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Don’t fall for the ‘clean eating’ lies; Get your calories wherever you can. Pack high calorie shit food if you have no other options, because you’re better off hitting at least maintenance calories with junk than going below maintenance because you were afraid to touch Doritos.

I used to bring blended up breakfast + a milk gallon to work. Breakfast was 2 cups of oatmeal, 2 cups of cereal (usually coco or fruity pebbles for easy blending), a banana, sometimes peanut butter if I wanted the flavor, and then milk until I got it a nice consistency. Put that into a bottle and drink on it during the commute, then drink the milk till it’s gone (if it got warm I just sucked it up and fuckin drank it anyway, who cares), and then rinse the milk jug and fill with water for the rest of the shift unless I brought gatorade/powerade then it’s that and then water for the rest of the shift. Liquids alone had me over 4000 calories and 150ish protein, then whatever food I ate on top of this was just surplus. Some days I had a big appetite, others not so much. Either way I knew that I was maintaining if not growing with just a few big gulps of liquids to start my days so I never stressed about what else I consumed/had to consume.
 
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@JDLift I use to drink a shit ton of whole milk when I was younger…definitely good for the calories…lol
 
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@JDLift that’s an interesting approach. But I like it. Especially in the summer my appetite goes out the window because I’m usually on my 3rd tshirt by 10am because it’s 110° in the shaft lol. But calorie dense shakes might be the way to front-load calories for the day.
 
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A lot of time I get stuck working outside. I usually get 2 shakes in a day (morning & night). I put milk, whey isolate, psyllium husk, and raw oats in there, easy to get down. Good calories. I will also pack a couple sandwiches to snack on at work, and usually eat 3 sometimes 4 chicken meals at work. Cold shredded chicken isn’t too bad with some rice or potatoes if you put something like Caesar or Italian salad dressing on it IMO. It’s not good but not that bad. Just gotta get ice in the cooler unless it’s cool out then I throw it in the bed of the truck, lol. Then of course a large hot dinner with a Gatorade at home with the lady post workout in the evening. It’s probably not optimal but I’m trying to force it to work. I can’t really push the gear much honestly because I can’t eat about to keep up with it. Between working, training insane, and having some test in my system, my body is like a furnace and I feel like I constantly have to over feed myself.
 
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Oh, and for those who may not know, likely if you’re working a blue collar job and you want to bodybuild, you’re going to get absolutely terrorized for eating every couple hours. I’ve heard of my buddies slamming food in the porta shitters. Luckily I’m a little more fortunate.
 
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