Nutrition For Maximum Muscularity Another Armgument For Eating Fruits And Vegitibles

[MS]

Yes, you eat something from each category, even at breakfast. This is an advanced diet for serious bodybuilders, and is designed so the mix of proteins and carbs are balanced and time released (in theory). You don’t necessarily eat a WHOLE chicken breast and a WHOLE round steak, you cook up whatever you’re gonna need for the next few days and divide it into small portions. So maybe you only eat half a chicken breast, half a round steak and two eggs (plus the fruit) for breakfast. Then you eat the other half of the chick/steak with meal number 3 or 6. This diet has even worked out your pre-workout meal for you.

Acer, first of all this is a mass gain (bulking) diet, not a cutting diet. It’s true that excess fructose is not good for you. Excess means more fructose than your liver AND your muscles need. In other words if you’re training hard (depleting muscle glycogen) and you eat fructose, sure your liver will get first pass at the fructose. But any left overs will then fill muscle stores. AFTER liver and muscle have had their fill, then the rest may get stored as fat, but that’s true of any excess calories. Besides, not all of the sugars in the fruits listed are high in fructose. Aside from that, your liver is prolly the single most important organ you have for assisting muscle gain or fat loss. Keeping it’s glycogen stores topped up ensures you stay in the best anabolic environment possible, and also helps you detox all of life’s daily assaults on your liver.

The lack of veggies should not be a worry as long as your getting plenty of whole fruits. You’ll be getting lots of fiber, vitamins, and beneficial phytonutrients from the fruit.

 

[OMEGA]

Great adjunct to the article MS!

I am kinda of waiting for PwB on this one he has some interesting ideas as well

 

[N-10-CITY]

I'm in a cutting phase right now, but I may give this a shot the next time a bulk up. Now, in Meal #3 water is the suggested beverage-does this mean that this is the only time of day that water is supposed to be consumed during this diet, or can water be consumed as you see fit throughout the course of the day? i.e. Is the water that is specified for Meal #3 just there to indicate not to drink fruit juice, the Ultimate Orange drink, etc?

 

[MS]

Good question about the water (and I don't know the answer). Intuitively I would think you should drink water whenever you can, and just avoid fruit or veggie juice with meal number 3.

I would struggle more with the lack of coffee.........

 

[OMEGA]

 

[plornive]

It is very organized and seems to have a variety of foods. I think it would be ok to add some complex carbs in most of the meals, though. Wouldn't that only help, considering one is already eating lots of fruits and veggies on a hypercaloric diet? And considering insulin is necessary for muscle growth, wouldn't it help a lot to add some more starches?

 

[plornive]

that is an old post!

 

[coolcolj]

Insulin is only needed after training to stuff nutrients into the muscles, and other times its best to keep it on the low side to to keep lean. That's how you gain muscle and lose fat at the same time.

That's what it boils down, manipulate your hormonal balance. You you can eat 2000 cals of starch carb heavy meals and get fat, been there before or you can eat 2000 cals of moedrate heavy, moderate fat and moderate carbs and get lean and build muscle at the same time. You just need to know when to eat starchy carbs.

There would be a lot more lean and muscular people walking around if people understoof this. Its taken me 20 years and futzing around to finally figure it out!

 

[thriller]

coolcolj how did you figure this out?

how do you know when ot eat starchy carbs if oyu want ot lean and biuld muscle at the same time?

 

[anthrax]

Very interesting diet OMEGA, thanks !

BTW, why the ratio fruit/vegetables is so high ?

Why not a bit less fruit and more veggies ?