Blogging About The Truth To Gain Weight & Build Muscle Mass!

It seems like recently there’s been a big push for eating foods and / or ingredients that are “all natural”, or “100% natural” for ensuring your getting the most for your muscle building / weight gaining buck. The term “hollistic” comes to mind as well.

The belief behind this is that if you have a diet to gain weight that includes items that are not all natural, that contain preservatives and the like, those factors will sabotage the muscle building process. Claims of “fat accumulating insulin spikes”, “protein degradation”, etc., is what will result from eating these types of food, and as a result of that, you’ll end up not gaining weight, losing muscle mass, get as fat as a hog, etc., etc., etc. Even diet sodas are now on the condemned list. Foods containing high fructose corn syrup is also on the list.

How much are there to these claims? Well, first, consider the source. Who’s making these claims. Is it someone that has built a body that you want, that has on themselves built muscle mass naturally, and slashed their levels of body fat? Or is some guy in a lab coat?

Also, take a look at what happens in the real world. The average joes that have learned to build muscle and gain weight without the use of steroids, did they do it by eating nothing but “all natural” foods? Or did they do it by, not necessarily engorging in “regular, everyday” foods, but none-the-less eating some regularly, yet watching the amount of food they eat overall while participating consistently in an intense workout routine day in and day out?

Again, eating “what” real world bodybuilders is what’s important, and not just some little theoretical tip is what will help you build muscle, gain weight, and get rid of you hardgainer status. I don’t know how many individuals I know that spend hundreds of dollars more per month because they are buying all of these “special” foods, yet they get as sick as sick as the next guy and don’t even look like they participate in any type of exercise workout program.

Also, many of these same weight trainers that are against eating any type of “regular food” are the same ones that waste a boatload of money on all kinds of “nutritional supplements“. They obviously don’t read the nutrition facts on the label because over half of the ingredients in those things are preservatives, chemicals, and sodium.