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 Dr Buff
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| Bodybuilding's 30 Biggest Lies - Continued |
| 03.16.2010 12:37:24 | |
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America, the only thing I’ve got to say today is, “A bodybuilding precontest diet, at this point, is designed to make you LOOK good, not FEEL good!” I’m definitely feeling low energy, and I know it’s gonna get a bit worse before it gets better. With that said, I’m gonna jump right into the 30 biggest lies…enjoy! Oh…and expect more from http://www.simplyshredded.com. Haven’t read anything that’s new or revolutionary – it’s old information revisited, but it’s written in a good way. I like their writing style. Makes for easy reading.
7. The training programs that work best for pro bodybuilders work best for everyone. You see it happen every day in gyms across the country. Some bodybuilding neophyte will walk up to a gorilla-looking guy who looks like he’s King Kong’s descendent and ask him how he trains. The biggest guy in the gym likely got that way from either taking a tremendous amount of drugs or by being genetically pre-dispositioned to get big. These kinds of guys grow simply by smelling weights like the fat person who gains weight walking by Krispy Kreme. Follow a horse home and you’ll likely find horse parents. In reality, the guy in your gym who may be the best bodybuilder is the guy who has made the most progress and done the most to his physique using natural techniques. He may still be a pencil necked-geek, but he also may have put on 40-50 pounds of lean body mass to get where he is, and that, in all probability, took some kind of knowledge, especially since the genetics weren’t there. That person has learned to not overtrain, keeps his sets intense, yet to a minimum, and uses great form, technique, and concentration on both the concentric (active shortening of a muscle) and eccentric (active lengthening of a muscle) portion of each repetition.
In the old days before the science kicked in, many pros spent hours and hours doing innumerable sets. Reminds me of the time Arnold and Franco took 400-500 lbs of weights down to a deserted area on the beach and squatted for several hours until they literally couldn’t stand (or so the story goes…). Obviously this would by far surpass the average person’s recuperative abilities. If average people followed the routines of most pro bodybuilders, they would, in essence, start to whittle down what muscle mass they did have or, at best, make only a tiny bit of progress after a couple of years. So the morale of this story is, don’t try and run with the Rottweiler’s if you’re a little Chihuahua. Let the big dogs play by themselves.
8. You can’t build muscle on a sub-maintenance calorie intake diet. It may be a little harder, and it may require a little bit more know-how and a little bit more conscientious effort, but it can be done. But it is a fine line to walk, and you’ve got to tread carefully. The fact is, the obese state in human and animals is not universally correlated with absolute levels of caloric intake and neither is the accrual of lean body mass. The ability to realize changes in lean/fat ratios is regulated by components of the autonomic nervous system working in concert with several endocrine hormones. This is called ‘nutrient partitioning. For example, certain beta-agonist drugs like clenbuterol increase meat production in cattle over 30% while simultaneously diminishing bodyfat levels without increasing their feed intake. Other drugs can facilitate fat-burning and muscle building/prevention of muscle loss independent of energy intake. In other words, certain drugs allow you to hold and even increase size as you diet down.
But drugs are not the only way to do this, however. It’s true that a significant component of this mechanism is genetically linked (having “it” as far as genetics definitely helps…), but specific nutrients, in specific amounts, at specific times (or as I’ve always said, eating the right foods in the right amounts at the right times), when combined with an intense, effective training program, can markedly improve the lean/fat ratio of adult humans. The research and science now supports the theory of post-exercise supplementation within an hour of training. It also supports replenishing carbs and proteins after an intense cardio session due to not only the fat being oxidized (burned), but proteins and carbs at a higher level due to the increased intensity. There’s lots of good supplements and supplement companies out there. But there’s also a ton of crappy ones who sucker you out of your money through false and misleading advertising hype. Know your company; know your supplements if you’re gonna use them.
Well, that’s about it for tonight…gonna finish watching the game, eat one more meal, and then hit the sack. Holla at’cha boi, America…peace!
The Dr.
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