bodyfat carbohydrates not bad diet
July 20th, 2008 by admin
Tags: bodyfat, bad diet, bad fat, fat carbohydrates, carbohydrates
Bodybuilders bodyfat carbohydrates diet
Fats Carbohydrates
You’ve heard it all before. Everybody from the American Medical Association to the media
trendsetters to that so-called “expert” at your neighborhood gym has been saying the same thing for
the last three decades: Fat is bad. Carbohydrates are good. If you want to get the body you’ve been
working so hard for, you’ve got to focus on those carbohydrates and keep fat to an absolute minimum.
So you dedicate yourself to living by the percentages the Lords of Low fat give you. 55 percent
carbs. No more than 15 percent fat. You load up on turkey and chicken. You separate the egg
whites. You surgically remove all visible fat from any piece of meat. You always broil. Never fry.
But you’ve been living a lie.
Bodyfat
Fact is, the high carbohydrate diet favored by so many bodybuilders can actually work against
them. They bulk up on all those carbs and end up packing on a tremendous amount of bodyfat.
Then, when it’s time to cut, too much muscle ends up being left in the gym along with the bodyfat.
Strength levels and personal motivation drops. You can become irritable. Maybe even
depressed. By the time that contest you’ve been working so hard for comes around, you often
look no better than you did for the last contest. You may look worse.
Diet
And that diet. To say it’s inconvenient and strict would be a drastic understatement. In a
world where eating makes up a great part of our social life, the regimen of a high carb diet can
quickly make you a social outcast.
Not that you can’t make progress toward your goals with a high carb diet. You can. Some.
But you can also find yourself plateauing or even losing lean body mass. As you count down
toward contest time, panic can set in. You take drastic measures to compensate for the state
you’re in and end up losing weeks of training.
So, why are you torturing yourself? Especially when there is an alternative that can pack on
muscle while keeping bodyfat at a minimum. It’s called the Anabolic Diet and, while it flies in
the face of what most bodybuilders have been led to believe, it could be the answer to your prayers.
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