A diet for building muscle is something that will higher the ceiling of your workouts’ effects. The better the diet, the higher the ceiling. Building one of those isn’t hard at all. You don’t need to take dangerous foods or any kind of supplements.

I’m going through each main element of a diet for building muscle here, and give you example of foods you might use to get those main elements.

Proteins

Proteins are going to be used as building blocks of your muscles. With energy your have plus the stimulus you have your muscles during the workouts, your body is going to build muscles by adding proteins to it. Thus making it the most important element of every diet for building muscle.

Proteins can be found in red meat – which was where I was getting from, I just cannot be without that – chicken, fish and tuna. See, no tasteless food here, you don’t need to “suffer” in order to bulk up.

Carbohydrates

As said earlier, you need energy and stimulus and proteins to build up muscle. Proteins comes from your protein meals, muscle stimulus comes from working out. That energy will come from carbohydrates you eat. Making it almost as much as important as proteins.

Some people make the mistake of thinking they’ll bulk up faster because they have some fat, so their body is going to transform the fat into muscle. That is not true, it doesn’t happens that way. Fat is only converted into carbohydrates. So, if you have fat, you don’t need to eat lots of carbohydrates, you can slow down with them, to make it possible for you to lose fat.

Carbohydrates can be found in lots of places, rice, bread (or any dough), oats and potatoes (or any source of starch). A tip here, you want to avoid dough that have lots of sugar, that makes bread the ideal dough to eat.

Vitamins

I could write a whole ebook on vitamins. I’ve learned so much about them and how they can influence a diet for building muscles that is just ridiculous. But my conclusion is that a muscle builder should worry mainly with two of them. B2 and B vitamins.

B2 vitamin, also called riboflavin, helps your body make a better use off the energy it acquires from carbohydrates and fats. Making you less likely to get stuff like muscle pain or muscle tiredness.

B1 vitamin, also called folic acid, is going to help your body grow healthy cells. For example, pregnant women must have this vitamin to make sure their children grow correctly. You’ll be growing too, your muscles cells will be replicating more than normally. So you want to make sure you have vitamins to help that.

Daily Schedule

Well, it’s not only know what to it, it’s when too. A diet for building muscle is based on several meals spaced by two and a half hour to three and a half hour intervals. So you’ll be eating small meals after each interval of the time you choose. I was using three hours. Also you want to have your first meal of the day after 15 to 30 minutes after you’ve woken up – that is going to set up your metabolism for the day.

You should be eating proteins and carbohydrates in every meal, but you don’t need to have the same kind of worryings about the vitamins. I was making sure I had then 5 times a week, and no more than once per day.

1. Caroline July 10, 2009 7:39 pm

   Interesting facts on building muscle! I definitely need to tone and rebuild my muscles after several years of not swimming competitively. I know for sure I would have to use my Topricin pain cream when I start working out again, as I get sore just thinking about it! Caroline

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