Muscle Building Diets and Tips for More Muscle Mass

Muscle building diets are crucial to your success at building muscle mass.

Without the proper nutrition, you'll struggle to add any significant amount of muscle mass to your body.

You just aren't going to add twenty pounds of muscle mass if you're eating a 1,000 calorie a day, high carb, vegetarian diet.

Not a chance!

Sadly, this is what a lot of weight lifters do.

They come to me asking why the heck aren't they getting any bigger.

Usually, their weight training program is a mess but that's another story.

When I ask about their nutrition program a blank stare comes over their face. They are busting their butt in the gym but completely neglecting their nutrition. Their shooting themselves in the foot.

Their are three important components to a successful fitness or bodybuilding program. (continued below)

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• Training
  
• Nutrition (including muscle building diets if muscle mass is your goal)
  
• Attitude (without the proper attitude you won't stick to your training program or your nutrition program

So what should your muscle building diets contain?

If you have trouble putting on weight, you'll need a lot more calories each day than you are used to getting. This can be difficult to do so you'll want to add calories gradually so your body can get used to it.

If you're taking in 2,000 calories a day and you need 3,500 - 4,000 a day to start building muscle, don't go from 2,000 one day to 4,000 the next. Add a couple of hundred calories a day until you reach your daiy intake goal.

Here are some nutrition tips for more muscle mass

• Eat 6 or more times per day (this makes it easier to get in all your calories)
  
• Have 2 or 3 protein shakes per day (this makes it easier to get in all your protein as well as all your calories as opposed to trying to do it all with whole food
  
• Eat clean. Eating a lot more calories is no excuse for eating junk. If you get all your extra calories from pizza, potato chips and beer, you won't add muscle. You'll add fat.
  
• Keep an eye on your waist line and adjust your calories accordingly. If you start adding more fat than muscle it's time to cut back on your caloric intake

Breakfast

2% Milk

Oatmeal

Egg Whites

Banana

Midmorning

Protein Drink (2% Milk, peanut butter, whey protein powder)

Lunch

2 tuna sandwhiches on wheat bread

Midafternoon

Protein Drink (2% Milk, peanut butter, whey protein powder)

Dinner

Chicken, tuna, or turkeySalad and or vegetables

Postworkout

Protein drink but either using a specific postworkout protein mix or something like whey protein powder mixed in some type of juice

Snack

Nuts

Milk

Or maybe yogurt with protein powder mixed in

Stick with these muscle building diets tips and watch your muscle mass grow.

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