One of the first things that you have to do if you are going to adopt a diet regime that is designed to increase muscle mass is to move away from the traditional three meals a day scenario. Instead, you need to eat perhaps five smaller meals a day, with considerably less time in between eating times.
The reason that you do this is that under normal circumstances, your body will assume that there is no more food coming if you don’t feed it for more than three or four hours.
Consequently, in this catabolic state, your body will immediately start to feed on lean muscle (leaving your body fat untouched) on the basis that this body fat is high in calories and therefore represents an excellent source of long-term energy if there is no more food coming for a longer period.
This is completely contrary to what you want as a bodybuilder, so you must eat several smaller meals a day, with no more than 2½ or 3 hours between each one.
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