Aside from protein shakes and the like. What meals would be good for gaining muscle?
Hopefully I'm making this easy to understand, but if I haven't please feel free to ask me to make it clearer.
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in the mean time.......brown rice bread pasta, oats, lean meat"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves…" - Dao de Ching
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"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves…" - Dao de Ching
The biggest secret in life is not that we go through life discovering ourselves but that we go through life creating our selves. Think about that.
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08-11-2009, 03:26 PM #8
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08-11-2009, 03:57 PM #10
The most general advice is that if it doesn't grow from the ground or have a mother then you shouldn't eat it. Nutrient-dense carbs and animal proteins are what you need to eat to maintain or grow muscle. Shakes are great, too, but maximize real food.
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08-11-2009, 04:17 PM #11
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08-11-2009, 05:55 PM #12
The more fats and cholesterol you get the better.
Cholesterol and fats help regulate testosterone and most of your post workout recovery energy consumption comes from fats.
I don't feel carbs are as good of a "bulking" agent as fats. They do have their place. They fuel your workout and there is the potentional for supercompensating glycogen stores post workout but eating high carbs and low fats is very over-hyped.
Of course, the trump in all this is calories in vs. calories out. If you're eating over maintenance, you will gain weight.
I would just prefer to keep my insulin levels low and my fats high while I did this.
Edit: Eggs, nuts, cheese, steak, fatty mcfat burgers, peanut butter, olive oil, fish, etcLast edited by stracin; 08-11-2009 at 06:00 PM.
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