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Body Builders Diet

June 18, 2008

A good body building diet and nutrition is the key success to your body building programme.There is a special diet for body builders which composes of proteins and carbohydrates and little fat upto 2 % is recommendable.

There are basic rules for diet for body builders, that diet should not be very heavy ,there should be small amount of feedings in the entire day, one should not starve in order to achieve good figure. The basic bodybuilding diet can compose of oats combined with milk and some dry fruits like almonds, and other nuts. The diet should also include carbohydrates like rice with baked potatoes, green vegetables like broccoli, beans.

Dietary supplements should only be taken when they are requires, unnecessary consumption of supplements can lead to many severe health problems. The intake of saturates fats like alcohol, salt, excess sugar foods must be avoided. One should increase the intake of water and should exercise regularly.Maintaning normal weight is also necessary.

Body builders should consume the food according to their exercise. Greater expenditure of energy will require more intake of food to keep the body healthy. In case for weight loss programmes ,where the amount of energy consumed should be less than the amount of energy release in form of exercise. Creating 20-25 % decrease in energy balance will result in weight loss.

People who want to build their body according to weight lifting ,they are required to build more muscle than fat. To increase muscle mass one should increase the intake of food and increase the exercise. The diet for such bodybuilders includes high dairy product intake like milk and cheese. Overeating is not recommended, one should consume food according to the energy burnt daily in form of exercises. As the weight training will increase the body will require more of protein , but intake of protein should be checked as more protein intake can affect kidneys adversely.

For a healthy body building it is recommended that one should eat cooked food and not eat precooked or processed food. Fresh vegetables and home cooked food is ideal for body building diet as it will contain less salt and sugar.


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