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Articles » Health & Fitness » Muscle Building » Are Popular Weight Gain Diet Strategies Counterproductive To Bodybuilding Progress?
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- Date Contributed: Mar 04, 2009
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| Are Popular Weight Gain Diet Strategies Counterproductive To Bodybuilding Progress? |
Many bodybuilders begin weight lifting to enhance confidence levels, with some being overweight and needing both muscle gain and fat loss, while many others start bodybuilding significantly below what they feel is an ideal body weight, and because they consider themselves excessively thin, decide to pursue weight training with the hopes of completely rectifying this unwanted trait. The usual places they visit for advice are either bodybuilding magazines or Internet web sites that offer weight gain diet techniques, and the belief is, by following such eating techniques when combined with intense weight lifting, the body will begin to systematically gain weight, and appearance will greatly improve.
The problem with such thinking is that many variables are required when constructing an effective muscle building plan, and when a weight lifter aims to gain weight, he or she is not also seeking a larger waistline or a second chin, but rather lean muscle gains, which will improve appearance and increase body weight. Although most weight gain diet strategies are designed to produce their stated goal, which is to increase body weight, many accept this as proof that such a diet technique is worth following, but doing so fails to consider that the type of weight gained may be in the form of fat. A weight gain strategy can easily produce more body fat increase than muscle gain when designed without effective macronutrient ratios, and therefore, the term "weight gain diet routine" can easily define quick, unnecessary and undesirable body fat increase.
Unfortunately, many bodybuilders are oblivious to this fact, and pursue common bodybuilding weight gain diet routines without any doubts, believing that such diet methods will lead to an increase in self confidence. Yet, in reality, they find that although the scale increases regularly, appearance begins to dramatically decline as the body accumulates large amounts of fat, which is diametrically opposed to producing bodybuilding results. Despite this fact, many bodybuilders sustain such weight gain diet routines, believing that if they remain persistent, their goals will become a reality, and if body weight continues to climb, there is no need to change paths.
But after time passes with such flawed weight gain diet techniques, a bodybuilder will begin to feel unappealing physically, but for a much different reason, as body fat levels have covered newly built muscle mass, and destroyed all definition, creating a physique that is far from aesthetically pleasing. If a bodybuilder continues to believe that he or she must weigh a magical body weight to have achieved success, then body fat will continue to accumulate, and the goal of developing an attractive physical appearance will essentially become impossible, unless the bodybuilder's diet routine is significantly altered.
The most important point to keep in mind is that common weight gain diet plans overload the body with carbohydrates, causing a surge in body fat percentage, instead of correctly combining fat, carbohydrates and protein for sustained muscle gain, without dramatic expansion of body fat levels. In many cases, body fat will need to rise as muscle is gained, since many metabolisms cannot enhance muscle mass without some fat accumulation, but commonly followed weight gain diet strategies fuel the greatest amount of fat gain, as compared with providing a properly balanced method that offers consistent muscle building, while controlling body fat increase. The more body fat that is accumulated throughout the weight gain process, the longer a weight lifter must waste burning fat in the future, and the quicker he or she will regain that body fat in the future due to training fat cells to store a far higher level of body fat than otherwise would have been possible when following a correctly designed bodybuilding weight gain diet strategy.
So, when attempting to rectify a lean build, remember that the goal is to produce muscle gains and control body fat levels throughout the process, which requires avoiding common weight gain diet techniques which you will find plastered on the covers of bodybuilding publications, and instead balance nutrients properly so that the body can receive sufficient food for dramatic muscle gains, without the common body fat intrusion. The worst possible scenario for a bodybuilder is to spend much time attempting to build muscle, while following a flawed weight gain diet plan that causes body fat to encompass the vast majority of weight gained, so make sure to consider the importance of a professionally designed weight gain diet routine before embarking on a bodybuilding quest.
Francesco Castano authors the  www.MuscleNOW.com web site, which is a diet and weight training program teaching the exact techniques for muscle building without supplements or drugs. He also owns the www.IncrediBody.com online fitness superstore, selling protein powder at guaranteed lowest prices.
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