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While most people associate ketogenic diets with lean physiques, studies show that there are also bodybuilders who rely on keto foods to help build their muscles and bulk up. If this is news to you, and you thought high-carb was the only way to bigger biceps, then you’re in luck.
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Keto is a way of eating and a lifestyle that is taking the world by storm. It may seem like another new diet fad to those on the outside, and it may not suit everyone’s needs and tastes, but it has many potential benefits. People all over the world from a variety of different cultures and backgrounds are turning to the Keto diet to heal mild to severe health issues and of course, to lose weight.
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Inflammation is a problem that most people in the modern world suffer from. Inflammation is, essentially, what happens when the body encounters some kind of problem and then ramps up the immune system to fight the disease or infection. This is usually a good thing, but long-term inflammation can eventually lead to a number of health issues and can negatively impact a person’s training.
The Ketogenic diet (Keto for short) is basically an extremely low carbohydrate, high-fat diet. It has been argued by its proponents to offer a vast array of health benefits. It has many similarities with Atkins and other low-carb diets.
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Cooking our food is something that we’ve been doing for thousands of years, and it’s often the best way of making food more digestible, decreasing the amount of energy the body needs to expend on the digestive system. At the same time, cooking, such as the act of exposing foods to heat, can often denature some of the important compounds that boast great health benefits.
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For the last few decades, we’ve been led to believe that the only way to get enough protein in our diet is by consuming animal products, especially poultry, fish, and eggs.
It’s such a deeply held belief that many people will outright deny that it’s possible to get enough protein by only eating plants – but countless studies have proven that not only can we get plenty of protein, but we also attain the many protective benefits that plants have to offer.
Pre- and post-workout nutrition is essential for athletes, whether you’re a vegan or not! You need to time your carbohydrate and protein intake correctly to aid recovery and improve your overall results.
Snacking is a tricky thing, and if you pick the wrong foods you can easily pick up weight when you are trying to lose it.
But working out can make you hungry, and you do need to eat, so these low fat snacks are the perfect option:
As an increasing number of people cut meat, chicken and fish out of their diets and go vegetarian the focus on what to eat when exercising and keeping fit has become more intense.
Many people are under the impression that athletes cannot be vegetarian, but this couldn’t be further from the truth.
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You may not realise this, but your body is a machine which constantly reinvents itself. Throughout the day, your body breaks down its own tissue and replaces it with new tissue created from the foods we eat and the recycled material foraged from other tissues.
Every person’s body does this, but the process takes place much faster in the bodies of people who work out. As such, if you’re looking to bulk up, nutrition has to become an essential part of your routine.
A recent study found that muscle mass increased 0.2% per day during the first 20 days of a strength-training program, besides the high rate of muscle-protein breakdown already occurring. This easily explains why someone who’s just starting out on muscle building requires more protein that someone already deep into a strength training regime.
As such, a good amount to aim for when starting out is 0.73 grams of protein per 450g of body weight per day.
The process by which the body takes protein from food and turns it into muscle tissue is known as protein synthesis. As nutritional advisor Mike Roussell, Ph.D. explains it, protein synthesis is like a light switch – it’s either on or off.
By ingesting 20-25 grams of high-quality protein, the process of protein synthetisation is turned on. It has been proven that those who eat at least 20 grams of protein 6 times a day – best ingested while playing pokies online – will lose body fat and increase lean mass, but if 6 meals seems excessive try 3 protein-rich meals per day instead.
A recent study found that those who took protein supplements gained almost a full kilogram of muscle over 12 weeks compared to those who did not.
With this in mind, studies have also shown that your muscles are most receptive to protein every 4-6 hours and you should ideally eat a protein-rich meal 2-3 hours before training and another within 1-2 hours of finishing your workout.
Your body needs amino acids in order to build muscle as they are the building blocks of protein and certain foods contain different combinations of amino acids. Of all the amino acids, leucine is by far the most important when it comes to building muscle and it takes approximately 2-3 grams of leucine to get the maximum effect from a meal.
The good news is that any average-sized portion of protein contains at least 2 grams of leucine.
Most us who work desk jobs don’t need to ingest pre-workout carbohydrates as you have plenty in reserve and your regularly scheduled meals should be enough energy for a solid workout.
However, there is evidence that combining protein with carbs in a post-workout meal will result in higher protein synthesis and you should ingest a good amount of healthy fats in the form of olive oil and nuts.