Muscle Power Diets

Where do you think muscles come from? Is muscle power the child of a vigorous gym workout? Or is there than meets the eye? When you see all those muscular people pumping iron at the gym, you only see half of the picture. What you don't see is what those power houses have running in their blood stream. I'm talking about the nutrients. Muscle building is a war that is either half won or totally lost on the dinner table. This article discusses how you can, and should, eat to enhance your muscle power.

1. Eat 6 Meals a Day: when your building muscle you can't let your body stay deprived of nutrition for long periods of time or it will begin storing fat, thinking that it's starving. Giving the body a healthy 6 meals a day lets it know that there is abundance of nutrition and it need not store fat, rather build muscle. The rest of the stimulus comes from your workout in the gym.

2. Eat More Calories: incase you're wondering whether you'll be eating more calories when you take up the 6 meal schedule, the answer is 'YES'. When you eat for muscle, you eat differently then you o for weight loss. Your body needs energy to carry out the intense gym routines and it needs energy as well as nutrients to build the muscle. The simple rule of thumb goes...'eat more calories than your likely to burn in a day'.

3. Increase Protein: muscle building is the outcome of protein syntheses. Proteins are the riches and easiest source of amino acids, the building blocks of nature. When your building muscle, your body needs a high protein diet, as high as 50 percent of your total diet. Get protein from white meat such as chicken and fish. If you still feel that you're not getting results, try adding some red meat in there too. Taking a protein based meal 30 minutes earlier than a workout ensures that your body has a healthy supply of energy and amino acids when the workout is over.

4. Carbohydrates: while cutting down on carbs is a good thought if you're loosing weight; you need the carbs when you build muscle. Muscle building workouts burn the glycogen stored in the body. The glycogen is the outcome of carbs your body converted into energy. Whenever you eat a carbohydrate, it is broken down into sugars that end up in the blood stream. These sugars turn into glycogen, which is like the storage facility for the body's energy. Make carbs about 40% of your diet.

5. Fats: fats are not the enemy, eating surplus and not having ay place to expend all the energy is. Your body requires an exact amount of fat for its normal functioning. This fat of course does not mean the greasy junk food and fast food that has become the brand ambassador for the poor nutrient. The kind of fat that you should be taking is found in olive and avocadoes. Concentrate on getting the maximum unsaturated fats because these are good for both your arteries and heart. You should also take a small quantity of saturated fats because they help the testosterone levels. All in all fats should take up about 15-20% of your diet.

Keep in mind that your diet will be the deciding factor in how successful your weight loss program is.

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