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Not sure I saw this on here before. Just a little interesting piece mostly on how he's eaten and some other physical routine stuff over the years.

https://www.gq.com/story/real-life-diet-andre-drummond-bulls

Not bad at all I know I have to work getting in shape this summer I was 215 in December now I’m 240 it’s shows abd I feel it

I have grown to really like AD as professional and a leader. He's definitely progressed since the guy he was when he was younger. I still think this team is better with him starting over Vuc. He's flawed by I think he adds a lot more than he takes away.

sco wrote:I have grown to really like AD as professional and a leader. He's definitely progressed since the guy he was when he was younger. I still think this team is better with him starting over Vuc. He's flawed by I think he adds a lot more than he takes away.

I think he proves that a center can still be productive even if they don't fit the mold that so many people think a player needs to be to play the position. He's been a good backup/spot starter this year for the team.

Honestly just reading through parts of it now, he still has some areas for improvement:

What does your normal game day meal look like?

I wake up and my chef will make me some oatmeal or a bowl of fruit, a smoothie. Then I go about my day. I get to the arena for shootaround, if I’m still kind of hungry I’ll get a cup of fruit. Then I won’t really eat again until it’s almost game time, 5:30 or 6:00.

It's hard to gauge how big this meal may be etc and when he's waking up... but a decent pre-game meal would ensure he's sufficiently stocked in terms of glycogen and energy etc.

I get he's getting paid a bucket load in comparison to us... but the fact he needs a chef to make him oatmeal

I’m definitely a lot less strict. I’ll still eat fairly clean, but I’ll have cheat days on Sunday because Monday is my conditioning day to burn off whatever I just ate and not feel horrible about it.

So he adds a conditioning day to 'undo' the cheat day. Groan.
Then talks about trying to take care of himself and his body... the irony.

We had a chef [with the Pistons in 2012], but they weren’t cooking what we eat now. It was buffet style, soul food every day.

. I know part of it is providing people food they'll actually eat, but that's just...

In the weight room I do a lot of legs. Toe raises, squats, deadlifts, single leg RDL’s [Romanian deadlifts]. Anything to do with legs, I’m all over it.

Toe raises... laugh.

I don't buy this, he's 280 pounds eating oatmeal and fruit?

step wrote:I get he's getting paid a bucket load in comparison to us... but the fact he needs a chef to make him oatmeal

And this, if I was paying a professional chef they sure as **** wouldn't be serving me oatmeal

meekrab wrote:I don't buy this, he's 280 pounds eating oatmeal and fruit?

step wrote:I get he's getting paid a bucket load in comparison to us... but the fact he needs a chef to make him oatmeal

And this, if I was paying a professional chef they sure as **** wouldn't be serving me oatmeal

It’s an investment. He probably told the chef he could only cook him healthy food, and if he didn’t have the chef he’s eat poptarts.

NZB2323 wrote:

meekrab wrote:I don't buy this, he's 280 pounds eating oatmeal and fruit?

step wrote:I get he's getting paid a bucket load in comparison to us... but the fact he needs a chef to make him oatmeal

And this, if I was paying a professional chef they sure as **** wouldn't be serving me oatmeal

It’s an investment. He probably told the chef he could only cook him healthy food, and if he didn’t have the chef he’s eat poptarts.

Plenty of healthy breakfast food that isn't oatmeal mate

meekrab wrote:

NZB2323 wrote:

meekrab wrote:I don't buy this, he's 280 pounds eating oatmeal and fruit?


And this, if I was paying a professional chef they sure as **** wouldn't be serving me oatmeal

It’s an investment. He probably told the chef he could only cook him healthy food, and if he didn’t have the chef he’s eat poptarts.

Plenty of healthy breakfast food that isn't oatmeal mate

Okay, but my point is that if you hire a chef to cook healthy food for you, it’s harder to eat unhealthy food. We should be giving a basketball player praise for hiring a chef to cook him healthy food, not criticism.

Probably needs a nutritionist more than a a guy to boil oats, open yogurt contenders, blend whey protein and chop fruit.