Food Emporium: Good diet first, great supplements second
Man can’t live on shakes alone.
We live in an age where science and nutrition go hand-in-hand, and food is often engineered rather than grown. Like most technological advances, many of us have lost sight as to what role nutritional supplements should have in our diets.
Granted, today’s sports nutrition is highly advanced and very advantageous to high performance athletes. But a supplement should be just that: Something that SUPPLEMENTS your existing diet.
For the purposes of bulking up, getting your required daily intake of protien can be a bit impractical. After all, how much chicken can one man eat?
Which is why of course we have protein shakes. They exist to supplement our diets and keep our protein levels in check. Still, a protein shake is a poor substitute for a meal, no matter what the fancy labels may tell you.
Whatever your fitness goals are, food is not the enemy.
It is possible to eat for size without getting fat. One of the things I encourage you to try is to reintroduce foods into your diet by eating them naked. Aside from cutting out the unnecessary sugar and empty calories, you can begin to develop a taste for true food.
We’re so wrapped up in flavoring everything we eat. Salt and pepper, dressings, marinades, condiments, butter - it’s completely out of control.
Dumping that garbage will allow you to eat more - and grow more.
And the more you eat, the better you look - and the less reliance your body will have on nutritional supplements. If you’re body is getting the food it needs, it can concentrate on using the supplements to help you grow out of the gym. If you’re not eating enough, the supplements are wasted by the body in an effort to the backfill the missing nutrition.
And if the nutrition was wasted, so was your entire workout.
The most critical aspect of adding lean muscle mass (besides the gym) is your diet. Depending on your body size and type, shoot for at least 18 calories per pound of lean body weight and 1.5 grams of protein per pound of lean body weight.
Make sure to build your workout around complex carbs but always say no to sugar. It may be difficult to eat for size while simultaneously eating “clean”, so don’t be afraid of fats either - so long as they’re unsaturated.
And you should be drinking water like you’re camping on Mercury. Four to six liters per day at the very least. What’s the simplest way to determine if you’re getting enough H2O? If your urine is yellow and not clear, you’re not drinking enough water.
Now that you have a sound diet and exercise plan, let’s take a look at some of the supplements that can help you reach the next level.
Don’t worry about trying to figure out which nutritional supplements are going to help you increase your overall mass. Once again the Feel It! Nutrition experts have already done the research for you and assembled the most comprehensive stack available to help you achieve your goals.
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The Feel It! Nutrition Bulk Stack consists of the following cutting-edge supplements:
Dymatize: 100% Hydrolyzed Whey Protein Isolate (5 lbs) Chocolate
Optimum Nutrition: 100% Casein Protein, Instantized Chocolate Supreme
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Dymatize: Creatine 10.7 oz (300 g) Micronized
Universal Nutrition: Animal M Stak
Twin Lab: BCAA Fuel 180 tablets
The key to using Bulk Stack is balancing it with your food intake and training regimen. Again, tracking your progress and keeping a written record of when and how you exercise can mean the difference between slight growth and a total muscle explosion.
Grow it, don’t blow it. Get Bulk Stack today and take yourself to the next level. But hurry, this sale ends on January 15!
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