Bulking Diet - Why Most Trainees Waste Months By Getting It Wrong!
In Brief…
With the wrong bulking diet your muscle gains will be poor and it can take you months to cut, costing you those gains in the process.
Here’s how to bulk for constant growth without wasting a single day – and totally avoid a long cutting period…
No question about it, the three biggest mistakes trainees make when bulking are:
- Not eating enough.
- Not eating regular enough (particularly good quality protein).
- Ignoring huge fat accumulation believing they’ll lose it easily later.
Let’s quickly (but thoroughly) examine the effects of these 3 points:
1. Not eating enough.
Your body’s growth (be it fat or muscle) hinges entirely upon how many calories you consume. To grow bigger, you need to eat bigger (more calories, from good food sources: whole foods.) Enough said on this.
2. Not eating regular enough (particularly good quality protein).
When you aren’t training your muscles are in a constant state of repair and growth, and as such, need a constant supply of energy and nutrients – particularly protein, to repair and grow the muscle.
The biggest mistake most trainees make is they don’t eat every 3 hours – particularly protein. You’ve got to do this or your results will be a far cry from what they could have been… I know this from personal experience.
You should be consuming egg, whey, milk, fish, beef, chicken and cheese. They are the best sources of protein.
Tip: Milk is a very special protein called casein that digests very slowly, so a few pints of milk before bedtime when bulking will ensure your muscles continue growing and don’t starve and shrink.
3. Ignoring huge fat accumulation believing they’ll lose it easily later.
The worst, most costly mistake you can make is to allow yourself to pile on many pounds of fat and think that it’s ok. It’s not – and you are seriously screwing yourself over thinking this way.
Listen: Unless you are taking steroids, it could take you months upon months upon months to lose just a few stone of fat… and all the while, you can’t build an ounce of muscle… and… you are gradually losing the muscle you did build!
My advice for avoiding this is simple: Get as lean as you can before bulking (forget ‘abs’ lean, but certainly no fat). And then, bulk slowly, looking to add only 1 – 1.5lb of body weight a week. This way, you can be almost certain that you are building muscle, and not fat… which is likely if you added much more.
You absolutely must regularly monitor your fat levels with callipers on a weekly basis, and make sure you don’t get carried away with all of the stories on the internet about miraculous 30-40lb solid-muscle transformations ‘in just weeks’. It’s bull, and this is the real deal.
