Beyond-Brawn-2nd-Edition

“Listen to your body”
YOUR HOW-TO OF PRACTICAL BODYBUILDING NUTRITION
20.115 In moderation, satisfy food cravings you may experience. Depriving yourself
of a food you crave may even harm you. You may also have an intuitive
feeling that a certain food is not good for you, though in theory it is a good
food.
Food supplements
20.116 You should not be anti food supplements, but you should be anti anything
that distracts you from a 99% focus on the fundamentals of basic training,
basic rest, and basic nutrition through food. All the maybes of nutrition, and
supplements especially, take up way too much of most trainees’ attention.
20.117 e use of food supplements is part of the common image of a weight lifter,
and something that gives a feeling of membership. e reality is that some
(but “some” does not mean all) food supplement companies are guilty of:
a. Deceitful claims that their product can never deliver.
b. Listing fictitious ingredients and quantities (usually in order to offer a
“quality” product at a low price).
c. Making up research studies; selecting research that has nothing to do
with healthy hard-training humans; and drawing on research that is
based on methodology utterly devoid of any scientific credibility whatsoever.
20.118 Once people swallow the “nutrition is 80% of bodybuilding” belief (or even
the “mere” 50%), and the “magic bullet” way to bigger muscles, they become
marketers’ dreams—prime candidates for any food supplement doing the
rounds.
Conditions to satisfy before trying “bodybuilding supplements”
20.119 You must have the fundamentals in place before you go experimenting with
only possibly useful extras. No supplement will compensate for a diet deficient
in a major component. Here are the fundamentals to get in place:
a. Daily satisfaction of your caloric needs.
b. Satisfaction of your daily caloric needs through five or six evenly spaced,
evenly sized, easy digested meals.
c. Daily satisfaction of your full sleep requirements.
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