IMPORTANCE OF SOLID FOOD

“Nutrition is as important as training”, Building muscle demands great efforts both in the gym and in the kitchen and meal table as proper nutrition will account for your bodybuilding success or lack thereof. Always think of the bicycle analogy. The two wheels of a bicycle represent training and nutrition. If one of the wheels is faulty or inadequate, the bicycle will be dysfunctional. Likewise, training and nutrition are intimately related. I know too many people who train really hard but fail to progress. In 99.9% of the time it is simply because their nutrition is inadequate.

I have been asked many nutrition questions by forums members, friends and customers alike, which has prompted me to write this article to enlighten readers on some of what I believe to be the golden rules of bodybuilding nutrition. There can, of course, be many other important nutrition tips but the ones that I will elaborate on are those I feel are among the most important.

THE PERCENTAGE RULE

Very often we have heard or read about the contribution of nutrition to bodybuilding and sporting progress. You will hear that nutrition is 60 or 80% of bodybuilding and the rest is divided into training and resting. I do not know how this percentage has been determined but it is grossly inaccurate. Its purpose is, however, to highlight the great importance that nutrition plays in determining progress.

I would rather say that bodybuilding is giving 100% in your training and giving 100% in your nutrition. In other words, “train like a horse, eat like a horse and sleep like a baby”.

SOLID FOOD FIRST THEN SUPPLEMENTS

As a rule, most of your calories should come from solid meals. The rest can come from nutritional supplements. Too many novice bodybuilders get carried away by nutritional supplements. Afterall, all magazines nowadays are filled with dozens of advertisement from nutrition companies featuring Mr. Olympia and IFBB Pros. The unaware bodybuilder gets easily misled by these colourful ads and hardcore sounding products.

Nitrotech Hardcore, Gold Standard Whey, Syntha-6, Myofusion all represent innovations in sports nutrition, true. Back to when I made my first steps in bodybuilding, Whey was not even on the market. As a side note, Arnold Schwarzenegger did not have access to Whey protein, Glutamine, Creatine, Pre-workout or BCAAS. So think of how lucky modern bodybuilders are. Arnold and old time greats obtained most of their protein from solid food and some milkshakes prepared from milk and eggs.

Do not think that supplements can make up for poor eating. Your body can process protein from food better than supplements. Even if you use the best supplements but you don’t eat, you will never make progress, period. That is why food is called food and supplements are called supplements.

“You cannot get away by skipping a good solid balanced meal even if you drink Nitrotech, Mass Tech or Serious Mass.”

by Vic Veeraj Goyaram (africanmuscle)

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