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Q: What is the rationale behind having five or six meals per day instead of three?
A: It’s quite simple really – eating more frequently speeds up your metabolism, allowing you to burn fat faster. Eating every few hours is also the best way to build muscle. And the more muscle you build, the faster your metabolism will become. This never ending cycle of lean muscularity can be yours if you adopt the lifestyle habit of eating every three waking hours.
How, though, can the simple act of eating more speed up your metabolism and allow you to build more muscle? I’m glad you asked. Here are three important ways:
1. The very process of eating and digesting food burns calories. Some foods, in fact, have what are called negative calories (lettuce for instance) – it takes more calories to consume them ...Posted in: Nutrition | | Comments (0)
If you’re a bodybuilder looking for an edge in the gym, you may want to consider the use of green tea. It delivers a wealth of positive factors, including improvements to fat loss, immune system function, energy, and health. Here are a few reasons it may be of benefit to your health as well as your bodybuilding progress.
Increased Performance
Green tea causes an immediate boost in the metabolism. It also increases the metabolic rate at which carbohydrates are used by the body. In other words, your body burns carb calories more efficiently. Especially when dieting, this can be highly helpful!
Fat Fighting
Green tea contains compounds known as catechins which assist in creating a natural thermogenic effect in the body, as well as preventing fat deposit buildups in the first place. In studies, patients experienced a very moderate, ...Posted in: Supplements | | Comments (0)
Bodybuilders have two primary goals. The first, and most obvious, is to build muscle. This is the goal of most people who are first picking up a weight, and this is the goal of those who have been training for twenty years. But the second goal is equally important – maintaining a low enough body fat percentage so that the muscle weight gained is actually visible.
The metabolism is the body’s mechanism, which burns a flat number of calories each day. People with a high metabolism typically have low body fat. People with a low metabolism tend to carry a body fat level of 15% or higher. Anytime the body fat goes higher than 10 or 12%, a bodybuilder stops looking like a bodybuilder and starts looking like a powerlifter, or worse, overweight.
The metabolism can ...Posted in: Nutrition | | Comments (0)





