| Many factors will go into your choice of a body building | | | | from each meal. |
| diet, but by far the most important of them is the | | | | You should consume complex carbohydrates like |
| amount of nutrition your diet will provide. Your body | | | | whole grains, vegetables, and beans, except for those |
| building diet will provide the fuel for your workouts, your | | | | times you eat immediately after a workout, when your |
| recovery, and your new muscle growth. If you are not | | | | body needs the simple carbohydrates found in fruit to |
| getting the proper nutrients in the proper amounts, your | | | | replace the glycogen that you burned. Simple carbs |
| bodybuilding efforts will never achieve the body you | | | | post-workout will speed your recuperation time. |
| want. | | | | Complex carbs are also great sources of fiber, |
| There is no "one-diet-fits-all" for bodybuilders. But there | | | | another important component in a good body building |
| are some body building diet rules which apply to almost | | | | diet. |
| everyone. The first of these is that you will get much | | | | Consume enough protein each day, spread out over |
| better results is you eat small servings of nutritious | | | | your meals, to amount to between one and |
| food several time daily instead of limiting yourself to | | | | one-and-a-half grams for each pound of your lean |
| two or three major chowdowns. Why? | | | | body mass. Have your lean body mass calculated for |
| By eating frequently throughout the day, you will stoke | | | | you before you begin your body building program, and |
| your metabolic rate and burn more fat, even when you | | | | have it re-checked periodically as you add new |
| are not working out. If you take more than three or | | | | muscle. White meat chicken and turkey without skin, |
| four hours between meals, you body switches to a | | | | red meats rated 90% or more lean, fish, and eggs or |
| muscle-depleting, fat-storing condition called a catabolic | | | | egg substitutes are all good sources of protein. |
| state. | | | | Avoid both animal fats and hydrogenated vegetable |
| What should you be eating? That old tried-and-true | | | | fats, as they are saturated and will clog your arteries. |
| formula, balanced meals. Carbs, proteins and fats, in a | | | | Unhydrogenated vegetable, nut, and fish oils are good |
| 40/40/20 proportion, will give your body building diet all | | | | choices for your body building diet; fish oil, flaxseed oil, |
| the essential nutrients working together so that your | | | | and virgin olive oil may also provide you with |
| body can maximize the amount of nutrition it absorbs | | | | antioxidant benefits. |