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attend to it, I can pass out or have a seizure.
You can eat and then wait for it to come up,
but then you’re usually lethargic after that.
It’s tricky.
MC: You must love Dymatize ISO100 since
it has less than a gram of sugar.
BK: Yes, that’s awesome because it’s one less
thing to calculate. And I know that I’m getting
the amount it says on the label. There is a
certain amount of protein that will raise your
blood sugar as well. If the label says 25 grams
but it really only has 10, then I will take too
much insulin and it will throw my balance off
and my blood sugar will get low. It’s important
that what is on that label is what I am taking
in. If a company claims 50 grams of protein
and there are 15 grams, that’s going to mess
me up.
MC: What kind of daily maintenance can
people do to stay off your table?
BK: Something as simple foam rolling the
lower extremities. Work on your hip flexors.
People don’t realize how tight hip flexors get
today with all the sitting we do at desk jobs.
Often, how we bodybuild creates lordosis and
pressure in the lower back. Keeping the hip
flexors and the lower extremities loose and
pliable will go a long way to avoiding injury.
MC: Does bodywork treatment actually
help aesthetics as well?
BK: There is a definite aesthetic benefit to
it, especially onstage. When you build up
adhesions and restrictions in the muscle
belly, they keep the muscle from expanding
and accepting as much blood as it can. One,
it looks less full because it’s cinched down,
and two, it will limit your range of motion. A
guy doing a back pose is trying to get wide.
If that muscle is tight or has an old training
injury, he won’t be able to get his shoulder up
and out and you won’t see as much detail or
width. Graston and Active Release allows the
shoulder to move farther and let the muscle
expand a little more. You might get a total of
one-inch wider, but you would have to lift a
lot of weights to grow that extra inch. IM
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