Bodybuilding Dieting, Tips to Do it Right
All right, so you want to get physically fit at the gym, and lift heavy weights. If only it were as simple as pumping the weights up and down.
An important aspect of both repair and growth is nutrition. Bodybuilding diets are always changing for the simple reason muscle mass increases, putting muscle on means eating more, losing muscle means you will need to eat less. How do you stay on top of what is going on inside the body?
First you will want to monitor your weight and see if your goal of adding muscle is causing it to increase. If it stay as it is, then we need to look at increasing the food taken in. You are eating too much if your weight is increasing and if your stomach is growing. Be careful, as initially it will increase with lifting, and you want to monitor for increased in the dreaded fat.
Using body fat calipers is a great technique to assess whether muscle or fat is increasing. You can use them every other week. If muscle seems to be going down according to your calipers, that is the evidence that you are not eating enough good nutrition. If the calipers reflect that the percent of bodyfat is increasing then you will have to consume less.
Decent gyms should offer a set of calipers, which should give you true readings as to the results as long as you ensure the same person takes measurements each time. Using them and finding the millimeters and your bodyweight you can use the chart and find the percentage bodyfat you have.
In order to figure out what the amount of your body fat you have, you need to take your body weight, in pounds, multiply it by your body fat percentage. This formula will tell you what your total body fat is. Subtracting this amount from total weight will estimate your free fat mass. This total includes not just muscle but all structure in the body, but it is a good estimate for our purposes.
After these two figures have been worked out, you should keep notes of your total body fat and free mass. You can then compare these measurements in the future to check if your body fat percentage has increased. You'll discover that with proper food consumption and balanced exercise and nutrition, the amount of mass without fat increases while bodyfat total decreases. If you don't eat enough, your muscles and fat free mass will decrease, but your body fat will increase. - 17273
An important aspect of both repair and growth is nutrition. Bodybuilding diets are always changing for the simple reason muscle mass increases, putting muscle on means eating more, losing muscle means you will need to eat less. How do you stay on top of what is going on inside the body?
First you will want to monitor your weight and see if your goal of adding muscle is causing it to increase. If it stay as it is, then we need to look at increasing the food taken in. You are eating too much if your weight is increasing and if your stomach is growing. Be careful, as initially it will increase with lifting, and you want to monitor for increased in the dreaded fat.
Using body fat calipers is a great technique to assess whether muscle or fat is increasing. You can use them every other week. If muscle seems to be going down according to your calipers, that is the evidence that you are not eating enough good nutrition. If the calipers reflect that the percent of bodyfat is increasing then you will have to consume less.
Decent gyms should offer a set of calipers, which should give you true readings as to the results as long as you ensure the same person takes measurements each time. Using them and finding the millimeters and your bodyweight you can use the chart and find the percentage bodyfat you have.
In order to figure out what the amount of your body fat you have, you need to take your body weight, in pounds, multiply it by your body fat percentage. This formula will tell you what your total body fat is. Subtracting this amount from total weight will estimate your free fat mass. This total includes not just muscle but all structure in the body, but it is a good estimate for our purposes.
After these two figures have been worked out, you should keep notes of your total body fat and free mass. You can then compare these measurements in the future to check if your body fat percentage has increased. You'll discover that with proper food consumption and balanced exercise and nutrition, the amount of mass without fat increases while bodyfat total decreases. If you don't eat enough, your muscles and fat free mass will decrease, but your body fat will increase. - 17273
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