Many think that once they get to a certain age that no matter how hard they go at it on their properly designed workout program and routine that they won’t be able to stimulate muscle building and weight gain. This article will show you otherwise:
If you partake in a regular, consistent, and intense workout program or routine, than pat yourself on the back…not just because you are well on your way to greater levels of muscle building and weight gain (assuming you are using the correct training and eating regimens), but also because you are not contributing to the huge money problem that occurs in the United States as a direct result of health related problems the government has to deal because of people who do not workout.
According to the World Health Organization it costs an estimated 75 billion dollars (yes, that’s a “b” in “billion”) every year in the United States of America in medical costs as a direct result of inactivity.
Now, this amount, 75 billion dollars, was what the US had to spend in the year 2000. Well, I bet it’s safe to say that now, eight years later (almost 9) the costs are a lot more than that. But, being that you’re an avid bodybuilder looking or the quickest way to build muscle mass naturally and gain weight consider yourself “part of the solution, not the problem”.
If I had a penny for every time I’ve written that when it comes down to eating to gain weight fast, build muscle mass naturally, or lose weight in the form of body fat, that it isn’t about macronutrient ratios or special “percentages”….that it’s about the overall calories, I’d be richer than Donald Trump.
And, I’m seeing that I’m not the only one. Bill Dobbins, in a recent article he penned in Planet Muscle, says “…nutrients…once broken down by the digestive system, all food is made up of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, with protein also containing nitrogen. While the three macronutrients are used differently by the body, at a fundamental level, a calorie of energy is a calorie of energy, regardless of the source from which it comes. This statement challenges a lot of widely held assumptions. For example, that carbohydrate makes you fat. That ingesting fat in the diet will cause you to store body fat at a disproportionately high rate.”.
I know this is going to cause a lot of readers to get all crazy and red faced, but honestly, there are millions of REAL WORLD examples that clearly prove and demonstrate that your overall calories is what most affects how much muscle you build, how much weight you gain, and how much strength and power you’ll be able to develop. Plain and simple.
IFBB professional bodybuilder Milos Sarvec, also known as very sought-after contest dieting guru, in which he has helped many bodybuilders hold on to hard earned muscle mass they have built from intense weight training from their workout routines…all while burning and shedding body fat to get well-defined and ripped, was recently quoted by Bill Dobbins in a recent article on his take about the whole “how to diet and what to cut out…carbs or fats…low protein or high protein, etc., etc.”. What he says should be a wake up call to any weight trainer who buys into the whole high protein / low carb / high fat craze that’s been brainwashed into many’s brains.
In the article he says, “I’m not surprised by the findings of this study…Over the years, I’ve seen competition bodybuilders - whose training and diet programs are among the most rigorous in the world - try a lot of different diets. I’ve seen some very strange approaches to eating and weight loss, but the one thing they all had in common, if they were successful, was taking in less food — reducing calories. Some bodybuilders did more cardio, some less. But to get in shape they all had to eat less. That’s the unchanging common denominator.”
How interesting. And how true. If you’re trying to gain weight, build muscle mass naturally, shed body fat fast, or all of the above, don’t get caught up in the whole “macronutrients” (protein / carbohydrates / fats) game….because as I’ve said time and time again, calories rule at the end of the day!!!
That’s right, you’re beloved low-moderate carb diet you’ve been following, thinking that it will keep your body fat levels low while you focus on muscle building and gaining weight, is stabbing you in the back, chest, shoulders, arms, legs, etc., as you read this post. Avoiding sugars is one of the dumbest things you could do when trying to up your muscle growth.
An Australian published just examined this very dilemma, and you’ll want to read what they found Check my latest article: