Muscle Building – The Best Muscle Building Foods
After you’ve put yourself on a good muscle-building program, the next step is to design a diet that will allow you to add raw muscle mass to your body.
This is usually the area that people tend to have the most trouble with, not necessarily due to a lack of effort, but because gaining muscle weight can be quite difficult for some.
Are you one of those people? Let me ask you this question. Have you stuffed yourself for days on end only to find out at the end of the week that the number on the scale has dropped? Frustrating, isn’t it? The reality of the fact is that for some guys, it’s hard gain weight. They try and they try and they try. No problem.
It’s not that you’re not giving it your all, you are, it’s just that it seems like your body is working against you.
Take comfort knowing that you are not alone. There are many people who have this problem, BUT if you’re smart with how you create your diet, you can outdo your body and finally gain that muscle mass you’ve been trying to gain for what seems like decades.
Here are the top muscle-building foods you should be eating in a daily base.
-Steak
-Walnuts
-Nut butter such as peanut butter, almond butter, or chocolate-flavored hazelnut spread
-curd
-Bagels
-pasta
-low sugar granola cereals
-linseeds/linseed oil
-chicken breasts
-mixed nuts
-dried fruit
-dry oats (eaten as regular cereal)
-whole eggs (include the yolks: three to four yolks a day when you’re trying to gain muscle can actually help boost your testosterone production!)
-sweet potatoes
These are the main foods you want to avoid. Not because they’re not necessarily healthy, but because they’ll fill you up too quickly and not give you enough total calories. Keep the amounts to a minimum, just enough to give you the nutrients you need.
-lots of vegetables (although some vegetables should be eaten for their nutrients, avoid large amounts)
-puffed rice cereal
-cooked oats (again, a healthy option, but if you eat them raw, you’ll get twice the calories!)
-egg whites
-watermelon
-sugary sweets (although they are calorie dense, they are empty calories and will also send up your insulin levels
high – which encourages fat storage)
-low fat products
-chips/rice crackers
-popcorn
So take a look at your current diet and see how it stacks up. You should aim to eat every 2-3 hours if you are the type of person whose metabolism runs at an incredibly fast rate and as such can’t seem to gain weight.
Remember, as long as you eat more calories each day than you burn, you will gain weight.
When you combine these excess calories with a smart weight lifting program, you’ll gain muscle mass.