Diet And Supplements For Gaining Weight (Part One)
Bodybuilders normally have one of two aims depending on their length of time in the sport. People new to the sport often have body fat, so they have the objective of wanting to lose that fat, whereas experienced bodybuilders want to build bulk, muscles and strength.
Beginners would like to accomplish both of the goals at the same time, but regrettably this is not easy as dieting to lose fat reduces muscle as well, if it is not done properly.
The process of building muscle used to be fairly personal until not so long ago, unless you were in the top strata or could afford your own fitness adviser or nutritionist. It in essence involved eating as much as you could and then working to burn the fat off, whilst trying to keep the muscle on.
As an instance, a man hoping to become Mr. Wales was working as a labourer with my brother in the Seventies digging trenches: he used to eat a chicken and drink a pint of milk in his ten-minute tea break at ten o'clock.
He did not keep the job long by the way, because bodybuilding is about posture and posing. If lifting is involved, like with weight-lifters, the power is short term, whereas diggers of trenches need to slog all day
A more well-known instance was Bruce Randall in the Fifties. He did his bulking in the American Marines eating mountains of protein-rich foodstuffs courtesy of the tax-payer. He ultimately reached a body weight of 400 pounds, but he could accomplish 900 pound lifts.
One anecdote goes that Randall was working out in a gym in New York in this period, but was unhappy with the siting of a bench he wished to use. So he picked it up and put it where he wanted to work. After putting it down, he saw that it had been bolted to the floor. He just had not noticed ripping the bolts out of the floor!
Later, Randal decided to take the sport seriously. After a great amount of exercise and coaching by trainers and nutricionists, he reduced his weight to 187 pounds from 405 pounds, although he did go back up to 227 pounds. He was rewarded by the fact that he won the coveted title of Mr Universe in 1959 in London.
Lou Ferrigno, who played the Hulk in the TV series was a two-time winner of Mr Universe. When he started in Brooklyn, he was a fairly ordinary looking kid, but he was determined to get the perfect body. He worked very hard and ate and ate and ate. At his peak, Lou weighed 300 pounds.
When asked what his secret to bulking up was, he replied: 'Lots of milk and food'. This was the hit or miss technique of the Seventies, Eighties and to a lesser extent the Nineties. However, nowadays the strategy is to eat the right foodstuffs and supplements to only make muscle or at least mostly muscle.
Beginners would like to accomplish both of the goals at the same time, but regrettably this is not easy as dieting to lose fat reduces muscle as well, if it is not done properly.
The process of building muscle used to be fairly personal until not so long ago, unless you were in the top strata or could afford your own fitness adviser or nutritionist. It in essence involved eating as much as you could and then working to burn the fat off, whilst trying to keep the muscle on.
As an instance, a man hoping to become Mr. Wales was working as a labourer with my brother in the Seventies digging trenches: he used to eat a chicken and drink a pint of milk in his ten-minute tea break at ten o'clock.
He did not keep the job long by the way, because bodybuilding is about posture and posing. If lifting is involved, like with weight-lifters, the power is short term, whereas diggers of trenches need to slog all day
A more well-known instance was Bruce Randall in the Fifties. He did his bulking in the American Marines eating mountains of protein-rich foodstuffs courtesy of the tax-payer. He ultimately reached a body weight of 400 pounds, but he could accomplish 900 pound lifts.
One anecdote goes that Randall was working out in a gym in New York in this period, but was unhappy with the siting of a bench he wished to use. So he picked it up and put it where he wanted to work. After putting it down, he saw that it had been bolted to the floor. He just had not noticed ripping the bolts out of the floor!
Later, Randal decided to take the sport seriously. After a great amount of exercise and coaching by trainers and nutricionists, he reduced his weight to 187 pounds from 405 pounds, although he did go back up to 227 pounds. He was rewarded by the fact that he won the coveted title of Mr Universe in 1959 in London.
Lou Ferrigno, who played the Hulk in the TV series was a two-time winner of Mr Universe. When he started in Brooklyn, he was a fairly ordinary looking kid, but he was determined to get the perfect body. He worked very hard and ate and ate and ate. At his peak, Lou weighed 300 pounds.
When asked what his secret to bulking up was, he replied: 'Lots of milk and food'. This was the hit or miss technique of the Seventies, Eighties and to a lesser extent the Nineties. However, nowadays the strategy is to eat the right foodstuffs and supplements to only make muscle or at least mostly muscle.
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