Muscle Building Secret

Studying the different styles of muscle work-outs, you’re sure to see plenty of variations and confusing concepts. Most of these muscle workouts DO have one similar “ingredient,” though - they all tend to advocate for consuming enormous amount of calories while building muscle, then drastically reduce calories while burning bodyfat. This is called a “bulking and cutting” approach. Unfortunately, the downfall with this plan is that while gaining muscle, you are also gaining fat - and usually LOTS of it! But you CAN perform muscle workouts that do NOT involve packing on pounds of bodyfat!

Of course, we all want to know the “secret to that!

Contrary to what mainstream fitness experts would have you believe, it is possible to add muscle without eating an excess of calories. It’s even possible to gain muscle mass on a low-calorie diet. How does this work? First of all, adding muscle is mainly caused by UTILIZING that particular muscle. Your calorie intake is more closely tied with how much body fat you have on your body. Essentially, fewer calories equates to less bodyfat, and longer, harder muscle workouts equates to MORE MUSCLE! For an amazing physique in less time, THIS is the approach to take!

So How Little Can You Eat While Still Adding Muscle?

Basically, the guideline is this - whatever caloric intake you need to sustain your weight level, eat SLIGHTLY LESS than that. It won’t be the same for everybody. One way to get a pretty good idea of this amount is to take your weight (pounds) and multiply by ten. So a 180 pound man would want to average roughly 1,800 calories per day. Then, as you continue this for two weeks, you’ll want to keep a record of your bodyfat percentage. You can keep eating the same amount of calories throughout your time of muscle workouts as long as during that two weeks your bodyfat did not increase.

“What about protein? How much do I need during muscle workouts?”

Some people in the world of fitness (big business, really) have led us to believe that we need MASSIVE quantities of protein to build muscle. Regarding protein consumption, we could literally fill an entire book with information on this touchy topic! Thankfully, we don’t have to. “How Much Protein,” written by Brad Pilon, already exists! He was formerly the lead executive in the research and development dept. of a major supplement manufacturing company known the world over. Brad explains that the average person only has to have a half a gram of protein for each pound on your body. Therefore, the 165 pound man really needs only a daily protein intake of about 83 grams. Round it up to 90, or even 100 if you like. The truth is, though, focusing ALL your efforts on extremely high-protein diets is pointless. Remember, muscle size is much more related to muscle workouts than with dieting. Lower caloric intake is used for losing the bodyfat.

“Are there supplements I should be taking to enhance my muscle workouts?”

Creatine is the ONE supplement while training with muscle workouts that I would recommend above any others. It’s really the ONLY supplement on the market today that has been shown in studies to actually increase muscle strength and size past eating solid foods alone. All other supplements effects can be duplicated with whole foods. So right after any of your muscle work-outs, make sure and take 3-5 grams of creatine.

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