How Important is Body Building Nutrition in Gaining Muscle?

Body building nutrition is perhaps the most important thing in any workout programme. This is an oversight that many fitness aficionados have overlooked. After running and lifting weights, some go back and chow down to an unhealthy meal which in all respects, negates whatever effort they have put in the gym.

Let me put it to you in basics. Body building nutrition is essentially what you put in your body, the raw materials that it uses to repair itself, to shape and grow your muscles. I'll use the analogy of an engine. Now imagine if you bought yourself a nice little 1.3 litre engine for your car. And over time, you feel you need to 'pump it up', adding turbo, better cooling, Fingertip towels increasing the torque and horsepower. But the performance of it depends on what you put inside. You can't put in vegetable oil into your engine and hope to get fast paced performance can you? You need the best of the best, the necessary ingredients that will bring about the best in your engine.

Your body is the same thing. It is the biological engine that drives everything and anything within your workout. Bodybuilding has been dissected into a science, and once you over strain and over load your muscles, you need to put in the right ingredients for optimal growth and repair. This means you need to calculate how much protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals your body needs to take advantage of the time you have invested in the gym.

Protein builds muscle. Carbohydrates are essential in providing energy and replenishing the body. Glucose and fluids maintain balance and vitamins and minerals ensure your body gets enough raw materials for the next work out. Normal food can achieve this, but supplementation is a must. Remember you are putting your body on an extreme strain one you start grunting and lifting heavy weights.

I can't stress this enough. Diet is 90% of your workout. You can huff and puff all you want, lifting huge weights, but without proper nutrition you will be waylaid by injury, lethargy and the lack of progress. Plateaus in any ones workout can be almost 75% of the time attributed to the lack of proper body building nutrition.

Now there are a lot of so called nutrition gurus who just spew out general information. However, everyone is different from the mesamorphs, endomorphs and ectomorphs (including their different body variations), as well as muscle density and the bodies basic own thermogenic rate. A good book should be able to spell out a nutrition that closely matches your body type, not just chucking in all sorts of stuff in the hop something goes right.

For years I have trained many clients and have managed to achieve excellent results by following basic principles put forth by body building nutrition. If you want to get optimum results from your workouts, examine your goals, training intensity and frequency and diet. It is only by balancing all three will you be able to obtain the results you desire.

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