Golf Channel saying Bryson DeChamb is super consistent in 2020. 7 Protein shakes a day!

So far for 2020 Golf Channel listed:

T5, 2, 4, T3, T8 and T6. It seems to be working. Daniel Berger has also been pretty consistent too. Bryson DeChambeau PGA TOUR Profile - News, Stats, and Videos Bryson DeChambeau's daily diet (7 protein shakes!) will shock you7 protein shakes! The dude better be careful because he may start looking like Daly or Hal Sutton. Wasn't Hal like one of the best putters ever on the tour? Was he the guy all the current pros went to for putting lessons?

I'm not a nutritionist but that's got to be more than 3000-3500 calories right?

I think the guy who has it right is Dustin Johnson. Strong but very flexible. It seems to be working for Bryson.

It’s definitely more than 3500, especially if he’s trying to maintain that weight.

Consistent or constipated?

Let’s see

Bacon-200

eggs-300

toast-200

3 prot shakes-750

3 go macro-840

PB&J-400

3 prot shake-750

snacks, prot shake-400

steak/potatoes-800

2 prot shake-500

Check my math but that’s about-

5000 calories.

There’s a pic out on the internet that lists his food intake. It has him between 3000 and 3500

I came up with the same. At the his base metabolic rate probably over 2500 calories a day, plus about 2000 golfing and practicing, plus another 500 lifting I would say he would legitimately need that much to maintain his current weight. It takes a 3000 calorie deficit to burn 1 lb of fat and with being 40 pounds up and my assumption is about 15 lbs of that was muscle he could maintain a deficit of 1500 a week, keep lifting and keep 90% of that muscle gain and be shredded in a year.

I give him about 6 months at this and then when he suddenly balloons to 300lbs, it won't be so good any more.

While I question the methods and the effects long term, you can't really argue with the results on the course.

Dr. Q wants to know what his cholesterol level is?

My partner is a renal consultant. She will be happy to advise DCB on the perils of fake protein. She treats several body builders who look great and insides are a mess.

In my experience as a (happily retired!!) doctor, the only way to put on as much muscle as Dechambeau apparently has is to take Human Growth Hormone. You can weight train as much as you like, but without HGH you will not acquire muscle at the rate he claims, if at all. Many people train very hard but to put on muscle in volume, HGH is necessary.......hasn't the PGA Tour banned this substance?

I agree. But Playing on tour in an ongoing deficit won’t be fun.

And think about it. He gains 45 pound, maybe 15 of it muscle (I’m actually skeptical even that since he said he’s been doing isolation/bodyweight not compound) and what? He’s now going to lose 30 pounds to get shredded?

Why gain all the fat in the first place. By the time he’s in a deficit to lose 30 pounds, he ends up 215. And he may be unpleasantly surprised at how little muscle mass he gained with isolation/body weight training. And it’s tough to maintain all your muscle mass in a deficit. If he got back to his previous body fat level, I bet he’d be like 210. Maybe less.

Why didn’t he just gain a couple of pounds of muscle a month without all the fat? A newbie lifter can do that. But then again, not without compound.

And here he is drinking 7 protein shakes a day to do bodyweight lifts?

BD is rewriting the fitness/diet books.

That said, he did say his goal was to gain a lot of weight and hit it farther!

I agree----DC's diet is appallingly unhealthy and if he's taking HGH he's going to have major health problems in future----and not too far in the future!

I think we'd all like to have DJ's build but for some of us not lucky enough to have hit the genetic lottery it ain't gonna happen. That being said, I posted in the other BD thread that I think this is not a good move by him long term. I had (stress had) a build like BD's. I guess luckily it is a frame you can put weight on and it "spread around" and not look terrible. That said I would love to shave off about 30 pounds and get closer to 210 than 240. BD will find as you get older and as you stay at that higher weight it gets harder to get it back off.

He only needs to deficit 1750 calories a week or 250 a day deficit to lose 1/2 lb a week. So drop his last protein shake and I would be surprised if he even noticed. If he keeps lifting he should be able to hold on to a decent percentage of the muscle he has gained.

He's only 26 so as long as he doesn't balloon and actually maintains his current weight I could see him maintaining everything for a long time, though his lack of fiber from any veggie sources is a little troubling.

Yeah DJ looks like he could also be a pro baseball player. What is the stat on DJ - he has won at least one PGA tourney over the last 10 or is it 15 years? S

I think Bryson is a good dude but he needs to be careful. I think it is too much.

I said in the traveler's thread (or maybe I dreamed I did) that DJ can get into some positions due to his athleticism that few can. I even think Faldo broke it down with Konica whatever swing vision.

His left wrist at the top and how he keeps his right elbow directly under it is unbelievable. I think he is able to do that by being pretty lean. I tried to get into that position just sitting at my desk and my left bicep and chest don't let it happen. My right shoulder also will not let my right elbow get down into that position. I guess I have the "Fat Jack" flying right elbow.

I do try my best to pull my right elbow down to my right hip and clear my lead hip but I doubt I am anywhere close to the position he is getting in.

So are we going to see you go down this path for the remainder of the year?

He can’t maintain his current weight and get “shredded” as you say. He put on 30 pounds of fat. If he gets shredded, he’ll be at 210.

I thought it was pretty clear I was years ahead of him, and am only now trying to go back on it.

Damn. I had to go to the weight converter to see what pounds were in rest of world measurements. I'm 188cm that would convert to 6f 2". I weigh 79 kg. That would convert to 174 pounds. I'm fairly normal around here. What do you guys eat over there to go to 300 pounds 136kg.

Just reading the words of 7 shakes in a day makes me want to barf.

The extra 40 + lbs is really building his legs over time. Pick up a 40 lb bag of salt and carry it everywhere all day. Walk as much as a tour player or caddy does. In a year your legs are tree trunks, whether it was salt, muscle or blubber you were carrying, all would strengthen those legs equally. It is darn near impossible for a very fit 200 pounder to have the lean muscle mass of a reasonably active 300 pounder. If the 300 pounder has 85 pounds of fat, they have more muscle than any ripped 200 pounder. It’s math.

I understand that, I'm saying he could go either way and it wouldn't be overly difficult.

6'2" and 174 would be thin for the US. Especially a US male that was a former HS athlete in either (US) football, baseball or basketball. Most HS sports have fairly sophisticated weight programs. I started lifting when I was in seventh grade (and hated it) for basketball and baseball. I would say guys here are built more like BD, JB Holmes and, if I am being real honest, Patrick Reed than DJ or Tommy Fleetwood.

I was getting ready to say Tony Finau seems pretty representative but he is 6'4" 200. That is thin-ish. If he puts on BD weight, dare I say, he would be approaching linebacker size.

He could practice with a weight belt rather than put on fat. The biggest problem with fat is that it gathers around your organs.

It could be too much but I like to see him push the envelope. I think he's smart enough to have assessed the possible side effects and performed risk analysis and decided to head down this path.