Aug 13
Do you rapidly gain your weight back as soon as your diet plan is stopped? You count your calories. You go all out at the gym every day. You do cycling as hard as you can. But hardly do you indulge yourself in chocolate when you put on weight again. It happens because wrong diet plan makes your body suffer from the lack of fats, proteins and carbs over a long period of time. As soon as the foods you’ve stayed away for many weeks come into your stomach, your body starts depositing essential substances to support its normal functioning, as if scared of another food deficiency. Continue reading »
Your nutrition should be one of your major priorities when your goal is to raise your muscular development. What you eat and how you eat has greater importance than the training scheme itself. Gym takes about an hour of your life a day, while the other 23 hours have much greater effect on how fast your muscles develop and to which extent. 
Most people believe sports food is unhealthy. These beliefs could be explained by different reasons which, however, have little to do with the facts. Here are top 4 myths about sports food: sports food is unnatural, it overburdens the digestive system, it can be replaced with natural foods, it is very expensive. This article debunks these myths. 
Intensive workouts often lead to muscle pain, or myalgia. It can make one exercise less or less intensive and some – even give up exercising. It’s not easy to make a bodybuilder give up working out in the gym, but anyway myalgia makes this process quite uncomfortable. There are different ways to get rid of muscle pain. One of them, and an easy one, has been recently found by the scientists. 
Australian scientists believe that coffee helps restore muscles after physical activity. The scientists conducted an experiment on professional cyclists and discovered a complex mechanism which restores the muscles much faster due to the coffee effect. The results of the study apply to other sports as well, particularly to bodybuilding. 
For the sake of a beautiful body people quit smoking, then change their diet and sleep more, and furthermore buy fancy bottles with sport additives. They go through all those efforts to make their body attractive. For the sake of beauty they have to change their lifestyle, but while staying away from cakes may be an easy task, how about alcohol? Sometimes, for instance at the parties, it is impossible to say no to this drink; but how will it affect the training? Will the stamina go down, will some fat crop up? Let’s investigate what alcohol is and how it affects the bodybuilder’s organism. 
Sport drinks get more and more popular those days. The market is filled with different drinks of this kind, while each manufacturer announces his product to be the best one out there. It does not matter what brand you prefer to drink, what matters is how you drink it. Energy drinks are designed for people who train 60 minutes and over, or train in high-temperature environments. How does the body absorb the nutrients and liquid depends on the ratio they pass from the stomach to the thin section of intestines. 
Among all the popular foods milk plays its own, important role. Literally it can be called food known since infancy. One starts drinking milk not even from their first days of life, but starting with the first hours, and, as a rule, goes on drinking it during entire life. For those, who have an active way of life, and especially for bodybuilders milk is extremely valuable. It would be enough to mention, that two cups of skim milk contain about 80 percent of the daily calcium norm, 30 percent of the daily protein norm and also a significant amount of vitamins. 
About 70% of the Earth is covered with water, the same percentage of it is contained in the human body. Water is essential for metabolic processes including protein synthesis. This is so simple, but at the same time very important for bodybuilders to drink more water. Do it for your body, and this will only help you gain muscle mass faster and more effective. And below you will see, why. 
Remember the cartoon about Popeye? This guy ate spinach, and after it his biceps grew really fast and he became superhero. But was it just a made-up story or does eating spinach really contribute to muscle growth? Scientists have proven, that indeed spinach does have that steroid effect. This is why it’s recommended to include this greenery into a daily diet of bodybuilders. 
Sugar has become one of the most controversial substances for bodybuilders. In general it causes weight gain, fat storage, high levels of blood sugar, which is a great diabetes risk. But is it the same for bodybuilders? Or, maybe, there is a certain time, when bodybuilders need sugar, for example, post-workout? Let’s find it out. 
Everybody needs to eat a healthy diet: consume less saturated fats, which contribute to poor vascular health, and include more fruits and vegetables to the meal in order to neutralize extra calories and fats. And if your goal is a muscular physique, then you should pay a greater attention to what you eat. Fiber (here is meant only dietary fiber) is an essential nutrient, which should be added to a daily diet of every bodybuilder. Let’s see, why it is healthy and how it can help bodybuilders build muscles and fat-free mass. 