What Our PTs Are Actually Eating - No Cheating...

So on your fitness journey, you decided to get yourself a personal trainer who’s given you advice on what it is you should or shouldn’t be eating. 

They’re trim and in shape, but the question is, are they practising what they preach? 

We thought we’d investigate this question for you and we asked a number of our personal trainers (no cheating) what it is they’re eating on that day. 

This isn’t nutritional advice; it’s just showing what people are eating on that given day; please consult your doctor or nutritionist before you drastically change your diet. 

Adrian Plester | Birmingham

Adrian is eating really well, has low carbs in the evening, and has plenty of protein for repair. He also uses greens and vegetables to help aid digestion and provide his body with all the vitamins and minerals it might need. 

• Breakfast: 2-3 scrambled eggs with wholemeal toast 

• Lunch: Chicken, rice and salad

• Dinner: Steak, green veg, sweet potato and mushrooms 

Craig | Liverpool

Craig is channelling our inner breakfast craving here and eating quite a heavy lunch. These meals are quite carb heavy, although personal trainers are on their feet most of the day, providing them with fuel to last the day. 

• Sausage and Hash Brown on toast, ‘swimming in brown sauce’ breakfast  

• Chicken wings and salt and pepper noodles from the canteen on the Match Works site lunch 

Ben Milburn - PT | Liverpool

A very balanced meal with protein, carbs and fats to help drive Ben through the day. Interestingly more and more people are making the jump to Sourdough bread because of it’s impact on your gut microbiome. Traidtiojnal bread has quite alot of ingredients in it which can make it harder to digest. 

• 2 Medium eggs, 4 bacon medallions, 2 sourdough bread, apple - breakfast

• 5% beef mince homemade burgers on brioche buns

• Protein yoghurt, protein bar, tangerine

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Nuno Barreto PT | Portsmouth

Nuno is another Personal Trainer that is using fasting in his nutrition routine. He has a window of eating each day of btween 2pm - 10pm and doesn’t eat anything outside of those hours. 

Fasting puts your body into ketosis which essentially means it starts to use fats within the body to use as fuel. People who intermittent fast also describe themselves as heaving more energy, because you’re body isn’t feeling weighted down by processing the food you’ve just consumed. 

• First meal, source of carbs, protein and vegetables

• Snack, protein bar, Bananas

• Pre-workout
  Last Meal source of protein, source of carbs, protein and vegetables

Joseph Royster - PT - Cannock

Weighted with the heartiest of meals at the beginning of the day to increase performance through the middle of the day, this is a really well balanced meal with all the necessary protein, carbs, fats, and nutrients he will need for the day.

Joe mentions how he’s not tracking calories, so this is him being a bit looser post-competition; notice how there are very few ingredients or calories that are not providing value. Apart from the choco buttons, although you could say it’s feeding his soul :). 

• 4 Scrambled eggs with cayenne pepper, 2 pieces toast, 3 rashers of bacon, whole avocado 

• Whole packet of mic rice, 250gm chicken, cayenne pepper,

• Snack, choco buttons - whole bag, and a can of lucosade 

• Dinner was tuna chicken salad with chorizo and cheddar and a punnet of strawberries

Karl Watkinson - Personal Trainer 

Karl, has a really great breakfast to set him up for the day, taking an earlier shift in the morning he’s loading alot of his calories to the beginning of the day. This is quite common with PTs that are doing the earlier shifts. 

Karl goes on to say that he sometimes needs to have that cheat of a block of dairy milk, but this is usually on a Saturday, and it’s planned with his caloric intake. 

• 2 x seeded pieces toast, avocado and material mixed with scrambled egg. 

• No lunch, just fast until 5pm 

• Usually has a heavier carb meal, today was lasagne with salad 

So there you have it, essentially though what we’re seeing his is generally they’re all being very good, which we guess is the point. There’s a notion that you cannot out-exercise a bad diet, and with the personal trainers all eating so well then they’re making it easier to maintain an healthy weight but not to mention have their bodies run correctly. Note they’re all consuming good amounts of protein to help repair muscle, most are consuming carbs to help fuel their day, and all of them are having fruits and vegetables throughout the day to maintain good gut and general health.