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Worst Foods To Eat If You Want to Burn Fat and Gain Muscle Weight

September 6, 2009 – 4:44 am
Have Your Cake and Eat it too - but only as a rare treat

In a previous post, I have listed the top food choices that are best for healthy weight gain and muscle mass building. A few of you got concerned when you saw that some of your favorite foods are not on the list and wrote to me voicing out your concerns.

Obviously I wasn’t recommending that you eat those foods on the list and those foods alone. Not all foods not mentioned on the list are automatically “bad” and should be avoided. So to address the confusion, here are a partial list of foods you really are better off not eating.

This is not an exhaustive list, but I’m sure you’ll be able to get the general idea and soon you’ll be able to distinguish bad food choices from good ones.

The basic guideline is for you to avoid foods that are:

* low in nutrients, vitamins and minerals.
* highly processed – contains a lot of artificial flavorings, colorings, additives, preservatives and ingredients you can’t spell or pronounce easily
* loaded with simple carbohydrate, and refined sugars
* very high in saturated and trans fats

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Best Weight Gain Foods To Eat To Help Muscle Grow

September 2, 2009 – 4:59 am
The way you prepare food is important, too. Grilling, baking, or poaching are better than frying.

Calories are not created equal. Calories from fats is different from the calories you get from proteins or carbohydrates. So even if you are trying hard to gain weight, don’t resort to fatty, unhealthy foods just to achieve your daily calorie needs. You may be able to build muscle by eating Hamburgers, Ice Cream and Pizzas all day long but you may also die a lot earlier because of all the toxins you’ll be dumping on your body.

Foods that are ideal for healthy weight gain are those that have a high nutrient density (more nutrients per calorie) AND a high energy density (more calories per gram). So don’t just go for high fat foods in an effort to gain weight fast, because what you’ll end up doing is just gain fat, not lean muscle mass.

Here are the best choices of food for weight gain. If you consume these and couple it with a effective weight training program, you will surely build muscle fast:

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Weight Gaining Diet: Top 10 Nutrition Tips for Optimal Muscle Building

August 31, 2009 – 5:10 am
Big Muscles Are Not Just Made in the Gym

If you’d been reading this blog for a while now, you may have noticed how I place a lot of importance on your muscle building and weight gaining diet. This is because a healthy weight gaining diet is usually one of the two most neglected aspect of muscle building (the other aspect is recovery).

Oftentimes, trainers focus solely on what they do at the gym, and never really think about what they do when they are outside the gym. This is rather absurd if you think about it, because you’re only at the gym about 1% of the time. The other 99% of your time is spent sleeping, working, eating, playing, relaxing, socializing and whatever else you do. Understand that a great body is made not just in the gym but also in the kitchen and in the bedroom. Therefore you should seriously consider how what you do in the other 99% of your time are affecting your muscle building efforts.

So here I’ve compiled a list of the best weight gaining diet tips that you must apply if you are really determined to gain weight and build muscles mass fast. Ignore them at your own peril!

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How to Get Big Muscles? Do Your Weight Training Routines With Proper Form!

August 30, 2009 – 7:40 pm
Do your weight training routine properly and youll reap maximum muscle gains

It always amazes me how, in an effort to build muscle mass as fast as possible, so many people (especially men) fall for the “more is better” thinking when it comes to their workout routines. But muscle growth, just like many things worth pursuing in life, is more about the quality of the work you put into it, not just the quantity. And this, my friend, is the main principle you need to drill in your head. Don’t let your ego rule your weight lifting routines – concentrate on proper form.

Executing your weight training routines with proper form is just one of the many elements an effective program must have in order to help you get big muscles. The other elements are progressive overload, tempo, having a bodybuilding diet that complements your goals, variation, rep range, warming up and stretching, core stability, considering muscular imbalances and proper posture, etc.

Ignore these elements and all your work will just go to waste, or you’ll reap sub-optimal muscle growth and over all results. If you really want big muscles, you must do what really works. If you don’t know what that is, then educate yourself by learning from reputable sources like Vince DelMonte and Tom Venuto.

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