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Nutrition For Building Muscle – The Real Rules of Muscle Building Nutrition

Building muscle with nutrition is not complicated, all you need is some basic knowledge, discipline and consistency. You need to eat a healthy diet every day to get the results you want. Nutrition is sometimes disregarded by weight trainers, but the truth is, if you don’t have a proper muscle building diet you are really limiting the results you are going to get from your training. So I have made a list of some of the rules of building muscle with nutrition. These are some of the most important rules you should follow when you are aiming to gain weight by building muscle.

Now, lets get to it!

1. Try to eat 6 good small meals a day. Eating more meals per day increases the body’s metabolism, gives you a constant flow of energy and reduces the chance of your body storing your food as fat. You need to shy away from the ‘3 meals a day’ mentality, those days have come and gone.

2. Eat protein and complex carbohydrates in every meal. Aim to get about 30 grams of protein and some carbs in each meal. For good quality carbs, stick to whole grains, oats, brown rice and wholemeal bread. Good sources of protein are chicken, egg whites, tuna, red meat and fish.

3. Use some bodybuilding supplements but not to excess. They are a great way to get the nutrients you need to your body fast. I would suggest to start off with whey protein supplements and then I would gradually move onto creatine and glutamine. The best times to take supplements is in the morning, before/after training and before bed.

4. Stay away from fats and excessive salts. However, you do need some fat for a healthy diet. Some things that have good fat are olive oil, peanut butter and fish. Also, drink lots of water, fuel up before you workout and after you workout have a meal/shake, which is an important nutrition boost.

5. If you want to gain weight and put on muscle you need to eat more calories than you burn throughout the day. If you don’t eat enough calories you will not put on any muscle. Its as simple as that, never stay hungry. As soon as you begin to feel hungry eat a meal of carbs and protein. Also before you go to bed get a quality meal of protein and carbs for muscle repairing while you sleep.

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