The Ultimate Muscle Mass Diet

Are you implementing the most effective muscle mass diet…the one ideal diet that if you actually follow through with it will guarantee that you’re going to hit your goals rather than just end up being disappointed and frustrated?

As I’m sure you’ve already discovered the bodybuilding and fitness community is extremely opinionated about nearly every topic related to building muscle mass, but over the years no single topic has sparked a bigger debate that what type of muscle building diet is the best.

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From the kooky fad diets to the insane supplement laden recommendations that the supplement companies have been ramming down our throats all the way to time-tested and proven muscle mass diets, no one can seem to give a reasonable answer to which muscle mass diet actually works the best.

The Popular Muscle Mass Diets

Fortunately, over the past few years the tried and true muscle building diets that actually lead to results have been making a comeback.  I think a lot of people are starting to realize that fad diets just don’t work – at least not for long-term muscle building success!

Here’s my short list of the best muscle mass diets:

1.) The Anabolic Diet (high protein, moderate fat, low carb)
2.) The Traditional High Carbohydrate Muscle Building Diet (high carb, adequate protein, low fat)
3.) Hybrid Carbohydrate Cycling diets that combine the best of each of these muscle mass diets.

Each of these styles of diets are extremely effective as long as the person who is implementing them actually follows the rules of the particular muscle mass diet. When people tend to get themselves into trouble is when they jump back and forth between the two philosophies.  Trust me when I say that each of theses nutritional approaches work and work well for building muscle mass, but you’ve got to buy into the philosophy that you choose 100% – no exceptions!

So Which Muscle Mass Diet Is The Best?

While there are certainly a lot of people out there who will disagree with what I’m about to say next, it doesn’t mean that it’s not the truth, so pay close attention….

The best muscle mass diet for you will completely depend on your specific goals, your time frame for achieving those goals, your personal preferences and your time constraints. Basically, there is no “ultimate” muscle mass diet – just a few time-tested nutritional philosophies that will only work well for someone who is ideally suited to that approach.

Bullet – If you can tolerate limiting your carbohydrate intake to less than 30 grams a day, you like to eat all kinds of meats (including lean sources), you enjoy eating fiber rich vegetables and you have the toughness to force yourself to go to the gym even when your glycogen (carb) level are low – typically towards the end of the week.  And you really want to gain muscle mass while significantly and quickly lowering your body fat levels, then the Anabolic Diet approach may be right for you.

Bullet – If on the other hand, you love your carbs and are not quite as enthusiastic about eating meat all day long and you can limit your intake of carbohydrates to a reasonable level of only high quality sources and you’re diligent about finding low fat ways to increase your protein intake, then the more traditional muscle mass diet approach may be better suited to you.

The New Wave of Muscle Mass Diets – Muscle Mass Diets Heading Into The Future

That said, I firmly believe that for most everyday aspiring bodybuilders and fitness buffs the answer will be found somewhere in-between the two extremes.  A combination of the clean traditional approach and the Anabolic Diet.

This hybrid muscle mass diet will utilize carbohydrate cycling techniques in order to keep you lean and manipulate your anabolic hormones while placing an emphasis on keeping low quality and unnecessary carbohydrates (like table sugar) and high levels of saturated fats to a minimum. With an emphasis being placed on reasonable quantities of muscle building protein and large quantities of heart healthy fats and fiber rich vegetables.

By now, nearly everyone can agree that unnecessary carbohydrates should be limited or even completely restricted and the evidence that consuming ample amounts of protein leads to a higher metabolic rate is overwhelming. Everybody and their mothers knows that consuming multiple (5 – 6) smaller nutrient dense meals every 2 – 3 hours throughout the day is a great way to jumpstart the metabolism and support lean muscle growth at the same time, and study after study is popping up touting the benefits of consuming heart healthy mono and poly unsaturated dietary fats!

To me it just makes good sense to combine all of the best parts of each of the more “traditional” muscle mass diets and structure a highly anabolic, protein packed, heart-healthy, fat burning, metabolism cranking dynamo of a super muscle mass diet that will…

• Keep you lean and help you burn fat
• Help you build muscle mass
• Increase your health
• Allow you to easily manage your weight
• Give you stable energy levels throughout the day
• Minimize any potential damage to the health of your heart

Think about it…

If your body has a higher metabolic rate, due to decent amounts of dietary protein and smaller more frequent meals throughout the day you’ll have a hard time keeping fat on.

If you focus on eating a lot of heart healthy fats and reduce the amount of saturated fats in your diet you’re doing your due diligence and protecting the health of your heart while ensuring that your body heads into a very “anabolic” state.

If you limit your intake of unnecessary and unhealthy excess carbohydrates you’ll stabilize your blood sugar levels permanently and not have to worry (at least as much) about developing Type II Diabetes.

If you get all of this stuff right and you’re consuming the right amount of calories, you’ll be bale to build muscle mass while simultaneously melting fat off of your body.

Because of all of the positive benefits listed above,  it only seems logical to me that that the new evolution of muscle mass diets will not only center around supporting muscle growth, but maintaining and even improving health at the same time – why not it’s a classic win – win situation.

To Summarize The New Hybrid Muscle Mass Diet

1. Eat ample amounts of high quality muscle building protein (some saturated fat is fine just don’t eat nothing but bacon and sausage)
2. Eat tons of fiber rich vegetables With Each Meal
3. Target a caloric intake level based on your specific goals
4. Eat a decent amount of heart healthy fats
5. Eat 5 – 8 smaller but nutritionally complete meals
6. Eliminate unnecessary low quality carbohydrates

When it comes to identifying your ideal muscle mass diet, it really can be that simple…I promise.  I’ll outline this new hybrid muscle mass diet in-depth breaking down each component of it in detail over the course of the next few months and hopefully give all of you a really great resource in the process!

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