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Hey do you want to be a bodybuilder but you don't know what it takes? Do you want to build healthy looking muscles and to have a “MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO”? (Latin- a healthy mind in a healthy body).With this article we will try to introduce you into the world of bodybuilding. Bodybuilding is a sport which involves lots of dedication and will. It is very nice to be admired for your good looks and for your healthy body but it is also very difficult to reach performances. What do you need to be a top bodybuilder? You need apply two rules that lie in every professional body builder's bible:
Eating is also an important part of your training so don't neglect it. EAT WELL! What do you know about muscle building food? You probably know that body needs energy to function. Energy means carbohydrates. Carbohydrates (also know as carbs in the world of bodybuilding and fitness) are substances stored in the liver. They are taken from bread, vegetables, pastry products and fruits. Your body turns these aliments into carbohydrates because they are the most preferred source of energy. When the amount of carbohydrates is very big you will end up with fat deposits. Your body doesn't need that; your body needs proteins to grow muscles and carbohydrates to get energy. That is why a healthy meal in body building isn't always about how expensive is your food. A healthy meal in bodybuilding is about what is in the food you eat. Every product has a label which indicates the content of the product and also the nutritional/energetic value of it. Look on that label to see the content in carbohydrates, protein and fats. You body needs a daily 1-1.5g protein per pound of body mass. That means that if your body weights 150 pounds you will need to eat around 175 g of protein per day.
Also be very careful with the carbohydrates dosage. You need to have your meals organized with an amount of 45-50% protein, 35-40% carbohydrates and a 20% of high quality unsaturated fats. In a normal everyday meal a man consumes more carbohydrates than proteins and especially more saturated fats. That is why you really need that dosage of protein, carbs and fats. A proper diet will be very good for you while training as a bodybuilder. We recommend you some of the most popular bodybuilding diets all over the world:
- The anabolic diet – a diet focused on eating carbs as less as possible and putting out of your daily eating plans the bread and the foods rich in saturated fats and glucoses. This diet will create an ideal anabolic environment for your training.
- The Atkins diet – this is the diet that stood behind many diets these days. Doctor Atkins's theory concerning a bigger amount of protein rather than carbohydrates and fats, proved very useful. This is more a lose weight diet. It is more permissive with the things you can eat so if you don't look for top performance and you are after fortifying your body, then this is the right diet for you.
You will find all sorts of meal plans and documentation in books and all over the internet. It would be better than buying 5 hamburgers to buy a book to learn about healthy nutrition. This is a good way to find out what proper alimentation in bodybuilding really is. TRAIN WELL! If it's your first time you go to the gym you shouldn't be to familiar with the equipment in the gym. This is why you need to hire yourself a personal trainer. At least you can do this only for the first weeks. He will help you train better and most of all he will develop a schedule for your training. If you can't afford hiring a personal trainer, you must then be familiar with the groups of muscles in the human body. Before going to gym try studying a little anatomy. Most of the professional weight machines have diagrams with the groups of muscles they exercise. So if you will make your own schedule depending on what groups you want to exercise most, this should be a lot easier.
When working at the gym, make sure you don't exhaust your body. Take into account your possibilities and your needs and give yourself a long time to recover from training. Don't try impressing other people (especially the girls) working at the gym with how much you can lift or other things like that. This could lead to unwanted events like injuries or other types of accidents. You need to train a lot before you can show real performances and you need to train even more if you want to keep those high performances. Try working out only 3 days a week! As we said before, your body needs time to recover from the effort. So if you don't give it that time it won't be able to evolve. Also, before following a diet or a gym training program, go to a doctor's office and make a medical exam and some blood tests. It will help you a lot to decide what diet is proper for you. If you can't follow a healthy diet from the beginning try to make small changes in your present diet and switch every week an unhealthy product with a healthy one. You need this in order to achieve what you want to because if you keep that pizza and soda in your diet the whole hard workout will be useless. So as a conclusion if you practice and follow a healthy training program as well as a healthy diet you will surely see more results than people who don't have a well set training program. You shouldn't forget to take your supplements, eat many meals a day and rest well after practice and if you will follow this advice you will be very happy with the results you will see.
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