Muscle Building Diet

A Muscle Building Diet To Gain Lean Muscle

Your muscle building diet is as important as your muscle building workout. Without the

proper nutrition you will not burn fat and you will not build muscle. It is possible to build muscle without adding too much fat to your body and get a rock hard chiseled frame. I’m sure your goals are the same as most of the bodybuilders out there today and that is to get an incredibly muscular physique and build muscle mass.
If you are just concentrating on your workouts and not concentrating on your diet then you only have ½ the equation. Eating huge quantities of protein and carbs is not the answer. You need a well-defined muscle building diet that your body can use to grow while you are resting. This will also help to fuel your workouts.

To bulk up or not?

If you are looking to gain size you will also add some fat in the process. This is unavoidable and sometimes welcomed. The added fat stores can help to fuel your workouts with added energy stores. If there were no added energy stores your body would use the next best thing to fuel your workouts and that is protein. This would defeat the purpose of taking protein supplements and should not be part of our muscle building diet.

The two phases of our muscle building diet are the bulk up phase and the fat loss phase. The bulk up phase is used to add size and weight to your frame and the extra fat added during this phase will be used to fuel our workouts.

The fat loss phase of the muscle building diet is where we get that ripped chiseled physique that looks so impressive at the beach. We are always in one phase or the other; it depends how long we are in each based on our individual needs.

Bulk Up Phase
The bulk up phase of your muscle building diet should not be done for more than three months. During this time you will be ingesting 15-20% more calories than is needed to maintain your weight. This should be enough calories to fuel your muscle building workouts. Any more than this will be hard to burn off once we get to the fat loss cycle. Remember that even though you are on a bulk up phase it is still important to do some cardio training. We want to keep the heart rate up and we want to condition our body to handle the super charged workouts.

Fat Loss Phase
The fat loss phase of our muscle building diet can be done as long as needed to get your physique to the point where your muscles looked ripped and sinewy. This is a matter of preference and will also depend on your genetics and body type. You should begin to restrict your caloric intake and begin to cycle your protein intake. Cycling protein intake is beyond the scope of this article. You can read more about protein cycling here.

These are guidelines on how to utilize the bulk up and fat loss phases to increase muscle mass and get ripped in the process. Pay attention to your body and it will tell you a lot about what it needs. You will know when to switch phases and when to stay at a phase longer. Much of your success depends on the proper muscle building diet. Good luck and good training.

If you're looking for a thorough guide to muscle building diets, I strongly recommend Tom Venuto's Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle. One of the strongest elements of the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle program is the detail and quality of information that it provides on diet and nutrition. Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle is a comprehensive fitness and bodybuilding program designed by Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and natural bodybuilder Tom Venuto. Venuto's program is one of the most highly sought after and purchased weight loss and fitness programs on the internet.

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