Must Haves In A Bodybuilding Diet
The must haves are three. The first is water, the second is proteins and the third is carbs. Simple? You wish. These three are the main reasons why the bodybuilding diets of most individuals are not yielding results. Read this.
Water is life they say, but to body building, water is even more; it’s muscles. That is if, muscles are everything to you, as they are to most professional body builders. It is the water that helps transport wastes from the muscle sites and on to excretory organs. It is water that actually cleans up your body and rids off all the toxic wastes of metabolism. Water actually help to transport nutrients to their point of use after they are digested. Water is good for your digestion processes. Water is very good for your kidneys. Water amplifies positively, the fat burning processes in the body.
Despite being vital as such, most body builders and non-body builders alike disregard water. We drink way too little of plain water during the day, truth be told. Yet it is water, the only dietary intake that can never be overdosed. You just cannot drink too much water, so drink as much of it as you possibly can. Bring a bottle of water with you to the gym. Keep it at your work desk, in school bag or wherever else you spend time.
It is from proteins that we get amino acids. Amino acids are the raw materials, the building blocks of hypertrophy. You can only build muscles as much as the proteins you eat. When the muscles are injured, proteins come in toe repair them. When the muscle tissues are exhausted and bruised and they need to recover, proteins get to work. When the tissues are worn out beyond repair, the proteins come in to provide the replacements. When the muscles are stimulated to grow further, the brain orders the proteins to be used in the new growth project.
It is therefore imperative that you increase the amount of proteins in your diet if your aim is maximal hypertrophy. It should be a rule that you always include some proteins in every meal you eat. Don’t eat proteins in some meals but in all meals. Protein my dear, are what your muscle tissues are built of. By the way, eating too much protein is hardly, if ever, a risk at all. It is recommended that your daily intake of proteins during training days or even rest days be three to four grams for every kilogram of tare body weight. If you weigh 70KGs then eat 21o grams of proteins daily, distributed evenly across the day. Besides the meats, eggs and grains, try out some protein powders, which are concentrated in the level of proteins.
Carbohydrates are the energy sources of the body builder. Actually, your meal should comprise of 40% carbohydrates. It is the curbs that provide the energy you expend during the exercises. Normal body functions like circulation also need energy. When you are doing mundane and normal tasks outside the gym, it is energy you are expending. So make carbs your staple food. Rich carb diets help make the workout possible and also prevent catabolism. You need the carbs, as simple as that, eat them.
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