Diets for body builders focus on cutting fat without losing muscle. Doing cardio will use up the calories body builders need to build and maintain their large muscles. There are several body builder diets you can try that vary in the foods you eat and guidelines for when you eat them. You should feel energized, not deprived, when following these diets. Consult your physician before changing your diet.
The Iso-Caloric Diet
The Iso-Caloric diet is all about percentages. By altering your fat to carbohydrate ratio in the food you eat you can maximize fat loss while minimizing muscle loss. You will want to eat fewer calories, but watch where your calories come from. When following this diet, one-third of your calories should come from carbs, one-third from fat and one-third from protein. This may cause some hunger, weakness and discomfort in the beginning since many body builders are used to eating a lot of carbs and not much fat. Overall, the diet should eventually cause you to strip fat and gain strength and muscle. If you eat too many carbs, they will be changed into fat or protein. Eating a lot of protein will cause your body to get the necessary amino acids it needs from your muscles. Protein doesn't give energy to your body as well as carbs do, so it will need to supplement the need for energy with the amino acids already in your body. Fat will provide the energy needed. Foods such as nuts, fish, and dairy provide fat and protein.
Read labels and seek to balance your daily calories. Not every meal must be exactly balanced as long as at the end of the day your total calories come from these three sources evenly.
The Body Opus Diet
The Body Opus diet was invented by Dan Duchaine. It focuses on anabolic growth and glyocgen supercompensation achieved through a strict dietary and exercise program. You will alternate eating five days on a low calories and low carb diet with two days of a moderate amount of calories and high carbs. The diet requires three days a week of strength training. The diet works by reducing the amount of carbs you eat. Consuming less carbs will reduce the insulin produced by your body. Insulin is released in response to eating carbs. Less insulin will help you reach your goals because insulin will cause excess blood sugar to turn to fat and stop the fat you already have from being burned off. The five days of low-calorie eating should get calories from 70 percent protein and 30 percent from fat. The two moderate calorie days require eating 60 percent of your calories from carbs, 25 percent from protein, and the remaining 15 percent from fat.
The Anabolic Diet
This diet is similar to the Body Opus diet but less strict. It is a high-fat, low carb diet that is also concerned with limiting insulin production. The idea is that your body needs energy. If it isn't getting energy from carbs it will get it from the fat you consume or the fat already stored in your body. Your body will need some time to adjust to getting its energy from fat instead of carbs, but once it does, you can say goodbye to fat. You also will eat according to a five day and two day alternating schedule. For five days, do not eat more than 30 grams of carbs each day. On the other two days there are no restrictions. Consider these free days to relax and be bad.
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