Muscular Development - September 2009 (US)

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Muscle Building Review - How Much Do You Really Have to Eat?

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:12:56 +0100

One of the most important components of successful muscle growth is eating, and eating a lot at that. Think about how much you currently eat now. Assuming that you're not hideously overweight, you're going to have to eat close to double that amount each day if you want to consistently build lean muscle. It's not all about only doing weights. If you can't supply your body with the adequate building blocks to repair the muscle after it's been torn from the workout, how can you expect to get any bigger at all? This article will discuss the muscle building program, "No-Nonsense Muscle Building" and it's opinion about how you should go about eating.

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1. You have to take in enough calories

This is the first rule of putting on weight. We're not talking about muscle in particular, but just weight, including muscle and fat. It's essentially the reverse of how you lose weight, that is losing more calories than you're taking in. It obviously isn't as simple as this with many men claiming to "eat all day" and still not be able to grow muscle on their body when they're working out. If that's happening, then something else must be wrong. At any rate, to know how many calories you have to take in, you have to take your current body weight, gender, fat percentage and goal you wish to reach with your body into consideration.muscle supplement.

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2. You have to eat the right foods at the right time

This is usually one of the big components that stops men from bulking up. They might eat a lot, but if they're eating naughty foods that are high in saturated fat, (Vince DelMonte calls them "empty calories") or sugar, then they're filling themselves up with food that won't treat their bodies well. I'd like to liken this to the diet of sumo wrestlers. They are big. There's no doubt about it. However, they're not fat. If you define overweight in terms of fat percentage a skinny dude in the crowd watching a 120 kg sumo wrestler fight could be "fatter" than the sumo wrestler himself! All that weight they have is muscle, based on a special diet of fish, vegetables and other foods high in protein. Am I telling you that you have to eat like a sumo wrestler to gain muscle mass? Well, what do you think?muscle building supplement

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3. Muscle:fat ratio

If you want to bulk, and I mean really add on the kilos, you're going to want to maximize the muscle:fat ratio. What I mean by this is that you want more muscle than fat, which goes back to why eating is so important. Gaining 30-40 lbs of muscle and 10 lbs of fat is much more impressive than 20-25 lbs of muscle and 20-25 lbs of fat. In order to maximize the muscle:fat ratio, you're going to have to take into account your resting metabolic rate and your active metabolic rate. From this, you can calculate how many calories you need to bulk up. The funny thing is, this sounds difficult to a lot of people, so they don't do it, but reading the nutritional information on packets of food is easy. That's the way that most bodybuilders actually stack on muscle.growth hormone.

So, you really have to eat a lot of food if you want to insanely bulk up. If you continue eating how much you currently eat and workout, you're going to be taking one step forwards and two steps backwards, since the intensity of the workout will burn out the food you take in much faster.muscle building supplements

Cheng is the owner of HowToGetLeanMuscle.com and this muscle blog, geared towards helping regular men with no experience in lifting weights learn how to get lean muscle.

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