Diet And Supplements For Putting On Weight (part 1)

Bodybuilders normally have one of two aims depending on their duration of time in the sport. Individuals new to the sport often have body fat, so they have the goal of wanting to lose that fat, whereas seasoned bodybuilders want to create bulk, muscles and strength.

Novices want to accomplish both of the goals at the same time, but unfortunately this is not simple as dieting to lose fat reduces muscle too, if it is not done in the correct manner.

The process of building muscle used to be fairly personal until not so long ago, unless you were in the top strata or could afford your own fitness adviser or dietitian. It in essence involved eating as much as you could and then working to burn the fat off, while trying to keep the muscle on.

As an example, a man hoping to become Mr. Wales was working as a labourer with my brother in the Seventies digging trenches: he used to bolt a chicken and drink a pint of milk in his ten-minute tea break at ten o’clock.

He did not keep the job long by the way, because bodybuilding is about posture and posing. If lifting is involved, like with weight-lifters, the power is short term, whereas diggers of trenches need to work all day

A more well-known example was Bruce Randall in the Fifties. He did his bulking in the American Marines eating mountains of protein-rich foodstuffs courtesy of the tax-payer. He ultimately reached a body weight of 400 pounds, but he could achieve 900 pound lifts.

One story goes that Randall was working out in a gym in New York in this period, but was not happy with the siting of a bench he wished to use. So he picked it up and put it where he wanted to work. After putting it down, he saw that it had been bolted to the floor. He only had not noticed ripping the bolts out of the floor!

Later, Randal decided to take the sport earnestly. After a great deal of exercise and coaching by trainers and nutritionists, he reduced his weight to 187 pounds from 405 pounds, although he did go back up to 227 pounds. He was rewarded by the fact that he won the coveted title of Mr Universe in 1959 in London.

Lou Ferrigno, who played the Hulk in the TV series was a two-time winner of Mr Universe. When he started in Brooklyn, he was a fairly ordinary looking kid, but he was determined to have the ideal body. He worked very hard and ate and ate and ate. At his peak, Lou weighed 300 pounds.

When asked what his secret to bulking up was, he replied: ‘Plenty of milk and food’. This was the hit or miss system of the Seventies , Eighties and to a certain extent the Nineties. However, these days the strategy is to consume the correct foodstuffs and supplements to only make muscle or at least mostly muscle.

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