bodybuilding nutrition

should favor smaller and frequent throughout the day instead of those great and rare feedings. Why? Because when you feed your body several times a day, your metabolism increases. Therefore, you burn more fat.

 Frequent feedings are of particular importance since after three to four hours without food your body switches to a catabolic state (a state in which you lose muscle and gain fat!). 

The body thinks it is starving and it starts feeding on lean muscle tissue and it prepares to store calories as fat. Bad scenario! Therefore, that your program works, you eat four to six meals (depending gender and goals) a day spaced at 2-1/2 to 3 hours apart.

The 3 Best Lean-Muscle Building Foods

1. Beef 

Beef is important for building muscle because of its protein, cholesterol, zinc, B vitamins and iron content.

Meat from cattle fed on grass have much higher levels of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) than cattle raised conventionally, which gives you a boost in shedding body fat and building muscle .

2. Oranges

Another good fruit that can actually help to stimulate muscle growth, strength and endurance, especially when consumed before training.

5. Cantaloupe

Due to its relatively low fructose pleasure, this melon is one of the few fruits that has made a rapid carbohydrate digestion. Making it a good carbohydrates should first thing in the morning after a long night of fasting and one of the few good fruit to eat effective workouts.