When you’re just starting your life at the gym, you will most likely be there for two things: to build muscle or to lose weight. Either way, you should have the correct nutritional plan to keep either of them going. A good nutritional plan should have the right amounts of all of the nutrients, including protein, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins, minerals,
You don't need to worry about counting calories. If you eat from the list of nutrient dense foods (which includes bacon), you can eat as much as you want, as often as you want. Eating nutrient poor foods leads to hunger withdrawals and even withdrawal symptoms when you try to clean up your diet. Withdrawal hunger is a condition where the body lies
A key component of fitness is increasing lean body mass. Increased lean body mass offers aesthetic, metabolic and fitness benefits. Although exercise is the cornerstone for increasing lean body mass, there are five simple steps one can take to increase lean body mass faster. You often find that whilst building lean muscle mass you need to: Consume a lot of protein and
As much as we rely on protein powders to build muscle as we are under knowledge that this is of importance, it is not a very effective approach. It can also negatively influence your health in the long term because your body needs a constant supply of good quality whole foods, these aid the body function properly and sustains lean muscle growth. To achieve a ripped
No matter how much you exercise they don’t seem to go away and your body is stuck with two bumps on the sides. However, don’t despair, there is a solution to your problem! You are probably thinking that you need to overhaul your physique, change your fitness regimen and you would be right, but that is only secondary. The first
5 Key Nutrition Rules For Greater Muscle Gains You don’t grow just because you train; growth is actually dependent on proper recovery from training. And the way you recuperate best is by providing your body with the nutrients it needs at the appropriate times for optimal recovery and growth. Your goal is to add lean mass — muscle tissue. That’s
You might be thinking, “There is no way eating more fat is going to help me lose weight!” Logically, everything about that assertion seems to make perfect sense because eating fat makes you fat and consuming lots of it will lead to obesity, right? Keep reading because the opposite is often true. For decades, fat has been the enemy. Certain studies claimed that the nutrient
