How to Build Muscle - Stay Lean With Carbohydrates
-Six meals or three meals per day? Let's look at this at a logical point of view.
Say you eat 450g of carbohydrates daily and you divide it over three meals.
This means your body will have to digest 150g of carbs every time you eat.
Now, some will turn into muscle glycogen and the rest will convert into ugly fat.
If you had to take the exact same amount of food and split it evenly through out the day you would end up consuming 75g per meal.
This method takes away the fat storing ability, and what's even better is now more fuel is available for your muscles.
This keeps the muscles of the body full for longer and enhances growth.
-Limiting Carbohydrate Intake Sometimes this can work in your favour, Bruce Namhing explains this.
"When you eat fewer carbs, your body undergoes all kinds of changes.
Your muscles start to "carve" carbohydrates.
With fewer carbs, the ability of your muscles to utilize them - rather than store them as body fat - actually increases.
When you return to eating more carbohydrates, virtually all of them are stored in your muscles, making your physique look fuller and more impressive.
" This process also increases protein synthesis which means your muscles will grow.
-Insulin Sensitivity You need to know what your own body does.
So, do carbs make you tired? then you might be insulin resistant.
If this is the case then your body pumps out more insulin when eating and will also create more fat for storage.
This is what you need to consider if you believe you could be insulin resistant, stay away from sugar, juices, refined carbs (like rice cakes), cold cereals, mashed potatoes and white rice.
Rather, choose foods that are slower burning like, red potatoes, yams, brown rice, pasta and buckwheat noodles.
Because of the slow burning characteristics the carbs will more likely store as glycogen than as fat.
Reason for this is because you now regulate your intake and insulin levels stay moderate.
-Conclusion If you intend to build muscle at all you have to seriously look at your own diet to see if you are firstly eating the right kind of carbohydrates and secondly if you are consuming the right amounts.
And stay consistent in your efforts through out the week, month and year.
Have no more than 1 or 2 cheat meals in one week.
-Whats in Part 2 In this article, Bruce points out what supplements and minerals can be used to increase the body's absorption of muscle glycogen into the muscles.
Say you eat 450g of carbohydrates daily and you divide it over three meals.
This means your body will have to digest 150g of carbs every time you eat.
Now, some will turn into muscle glycogen and the rest will convert into ugly fat.
If you had to take the exact same amount of food and split it evenly through out the day you would end up consuming 75g per meal.
This method takes away the fat storing ability, and what's even better is now more fuel is available for your muscles.
This keeps the muscles of the body full for longer and enhances growth.
-Limiting Carbohydrate Intake Sometimes this can work in your favour, Bruce Namhing explains this.
"When you eat fewer carbs, your body undergoes all kinds of changes.
Your muscles start to "carve" carbohydrates.
With fewer carbs, the ability of your muscles to utilize them - rather than store them as body fat - actually increases.
When you return to eating more carbohydrates, virtually all of them are stored in your muscles, making your physique look fuller and more impressive.
" This process also increases protein synthesis which means your muscles will grow.
-Insulin Sensitivity You need to know what your own body does.
So, do carbs make you tired? then you might be insulin resistant.
If this is the case then your body pumps out more insulin when eating and will also create more fat for storage.
This is what you need to consider if you believe you could be insulin resistant, stay away from sugar, juices, refined carbs (like rice cakes), cold cereals, mashed potatoes and white rice.
Rather, choose foods that are slower burning like, red potatoes, yams, brown rice, pasta and buckwheat noodles.
Because of the slow burning characteristics the carbs will more likely store as glycogen than as fat.
Reason for this is because you now regulate your intake and insulin levels stay moderate.
-Conclusion If you intend to build muscle at all you have to seriously look at your own diet to see if you are firstly eating the right kind of carbohydrates and secondly if you are consuming the right amounts.
And stay consistent in your efforts through out the week, month and year.
Have no more than 1 or 2 cheat meals in one week.
-Whats in Part 2 In this article, Bruce points out what supplements and minerals can be used to increase the body's absorption of muscle glycogen into the muscles.
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