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

It’s getting down right ridiculous the fact that so many people are jumping on the whole “carbs are bad for you / sugars make you fat” bandwagon without stepping back and looking at the whole picture when it comes to how to eat to gain weight and build muscle mass naturally. With so many natural trainers, weight lifters, bodybuilders, fitness enthusiasts, etc., staying away and treating carbohydrates as if it where the plague it’s no wonder so many of them have the hardest time with muscle building or gaining any quality weight.

Instantly, many begin to blame their workout routine or begin to call themselves a “hardgainer”, when the entire time the problem is what they are putting, or better yet, NOT putting down their throats.

In a recent column in Muscular Development magazine they refer to an Australian study where “researchers found that low glycogen (carbs / sugar) levels impaired muscle protein synthesis following weight training. They measured the activity levels of genes controlling muscle growth following weight training in legs with normal or depleted levels of glycogen….Carbs fuel high-intensity exercise and stimulate the genes that control muscle growth”, according to the Journal Applied Physiology.

The low levels of carbs in these weight trainers’ diet and nutritional protocol negatively affected the amount of muscle they were able to build and quality weight that they were able to gain. The problem now a days is that everyone seems to think that eating or avoiding a certain macronutrient, which are protein, carbohydrates, and fats, is what will visually make a difference in burning body fat and building muscle and spurring growth. Nine times out of ten the individuals that avoid carbs in their diet are also, as a result, eating a very low amount of overall calories. Look…it doesn’t matter how many grams of “whey protein” or “omega 6 / omega 3 fatty acids”, “monosaturated fats” you’re eating, if you don’t eat enough calories you can forget about muscle building. Go take up checkers instead.

Carbohydrates are just as important, if not more, than any type of fat or protein you eat. You have to keep in mind that because you train intensely weights to stimulate muscle growth and to gain weight the way you eat must be completely different than the average joe….which is what many studies that allegedly support low carb diets and protocols are based on.