CapRegBari Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Lost 30-40 over the summer, gained 60+ back in the off-season. Seriously. It had a terrible effect on the following summer. Don't binge when you get home, kids! Keep exercising! No matter how much you missed McDonalds and ice cream. You'll gain a lot back because you can't keep up the lifestyle in the real world, but... yeah. Bad news bears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavs Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Since I was usually (5'11'') 130 lbs. before tour I usually gained 10 to 15 lbs. from a summer of drum corps. Being underweight can be a problem if you aren't eating, which is why its important to join a corps that feeds well. Having a fast metabolism doesn't help at all... I ate seconds ALL the time for almost every meal (big meals), veggies and everything, got a PB&J or two with every meal (lots of PB), low fat milk is good to wash everything down if its there for the meal. Snacked on whatever healthy foods I could find throughout the day and on bus trips. I ate a LOT for after show snacks, and brought them on the bus with me whenever I could. Never skipped a meal. Drank a whole lot of water (before and after long bus rides, right before i went to sleep, right when I woke up, and of course throughout the whole day) I lost weight when I got off tour. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tizzizzailslf04 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Since I was usually (5'11'') 130 lbs. before tour I usually gained 10 to 15 lbs. from a summer of drum corps. Being underweight can be a problem if you aren't eating, which is why its important to join a corps that feeds well. Having a fast metabolism doesn't help at all...I ate seconds ALL the time for almost every meal (big meals), veggies and everything, got a PB&J or two with every meal (lots of PB), low fat milk is good to wash everything down if its there for the meal. Snacked on whatever healthy foods I could find throughout the day and on bus trips. I ate a LOT for after show snacks, and brought them on the bus with me whenever I could. Never skipped a meal. Drank a whole lot of water (before and after long bus rides, right before i went to sleep, right when I woke up, and of course throughout the whole day) I lost weight when I got off tour. :( Dude you sound like an exact replica of me, haha. I hope I can gain that much weight. Holy crap you ate and drank alot, though. Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
friceox Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Ah, how I love hearing people say that the pit doesn't work. As someone previously said, front ensemble members are constantly moving and lifting equipment. I think I lost most of my weight from being the truck so much. It was like bein in a sauna, but instead of sittin around naked with a towel....i was in there lifting marimba's and vibraphone's over my head (well....usually almost naked) I never really bulked up in muscle on tour, I'd just get really toned, especially in the calves. Pushing a 5 octave beast of a marimba with cymbals and other junk attatched to it around the country. I probably would have gained some serious weight in 2002 at Phantom if the original plan of having 4 members of the pit march during the piano concerto would have gone thru (kinda glad it didn't...would have been cool though) Unfortunately, strapping a full set of bells, 18in gong drum, 8in snare drum, and a mounted cymbal was too much for the harnesses to handle... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavs Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Dude you sound like an exact replica of me, haha. I hope I can gain that much weight. Holy crap you ate and drank alot, though. Lol Some days it was harder to eat than others. Most days it was fine; running around the football field all day can make you pretty hungry around meal times. The days I wasn't doin' too much were tough eating and drinking days. I won't lie to ya and say I only ate healthy foods all summer. I remember eating a med. pizza from Dominoes right before performing at MTSU...i think theres a dominoes near there. Ate the whole thing myself, and had trouble zipping up my uniform pants an hour later. Heh, i guess for a small guy I could eat a lot in the summer. I was definitely lucky to be in the corps I was in. I've marched in a corps that had problems feeding the members. Not fun. Not safe. Luckly that underfed corps was in my home town, and I could go home to eat durring pre-tour. Tour was a different story... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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