Three Foods Your Weight Lifting Diet Needs To Have

By: Greg Gallon Click author's name for more of his/her articles

There are obviously dozens of foods that are highly beneficial to a weight lifting diet. We want to pick one from each of the foundational areas of your diet.

They are:

1) Protein
2) Carbohydrates
3) Fats

An often misunderstood fact is that you need both carbs and fats as well as protein to build muscle.

While protein is what your body will utilize to repair the damage that you cause your muscles during training, carbs and fats are also absolutely necessary to your weight training diet.

Carbs are one of the best muscle building foods and necessary for the drive that they will provide for you in the gym as well as recovery after a workout. Having carbohydrates in your diet will allow your body to better use the proteins in your diet. Your body has to break the protein down into amino acids which are the building blocks of muscle but the process it uses to do this requires the energy that you get from having a proper amount of carbohydrates in your diet.

Fat too is an essential part of a muscle building diet. Be sure to get a lot of essential, unsaturated fats and you don't need to fear the saturated fats either. Contrary to a most people's thinking, saturated fats won't make you fat if you eat them and can be greatly used by the body to build lean muscle. Essential fats, especially omega 3, helps to push the majority of the glucose you consume into your muscles to be used rather than into your fat cells to be stored. Believe it, you have to eat fat to loose fat and build muscle.

So for carbs our favorite recommendation is oatmeal. It is great for breakfast which is your most important meal of the day. It is a simple carb with plenty of fiber. This is our top recommended carbohydrate to have in your diet. Obviously there are many other great sources for carbs. Other whole grains, fruits, and vegetables all contain healthy and highly beneficial carbohydrates.

For protein it has to be eggs. They are at the top of every list you will find because their protein is so easily converted into amino acids by your body. The quality of all protein is measured by the standard of egg protein. They are also rich in essential fats, saturated fats and contain lecithin. All these are highly beneficial for producing the muscle mass you're looking for. Other tremendous sources of protein are whole milk, lean chicken and turkey, lean red meat, fish and cottage cheese.

Lastly is fats. Again there are a number of great sources. Fish oil, flax seed oil, hemp oil, extra virgin cold pressed olive oil, extra virgin cold pressed coconut oil, eggs, nuts and beans to name a few.

One of the greatest sources is fish oil. It has a tremendous amount of omega 3 fatty acids in it in two forms 1) docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and 2) eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). Both are used by your body and help to grow muscle and prevent a number of diseases and other health problems. Getting the right amount of fat in your diet allow for the production of testosterone. An essential hormone used for building muscle.

Nutrition is no doubt the part of muscle building where people make their biggest and most consistent mistakes. If you want to build muscle you have to pay attention to nutrition.

Too many people spend way too much time at the gym instead working on their muscle building diets in the kitchen. The sad fact is that time in the gym can be greatly wasted without the necessary time in kitchen.

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