Copyright 2006 Jonathan Perez

In my previous short article, “Why You Don’t Need Protein To Gain Muscle”, I discussed 1 of the 3 inaccurate beliefs that everybody has of protein, believing that you should consume huge total up to put on weight and develop muscle mass.

I discussed why it is NOT real that protein is what comprises the majority of the muscle weight on your body.

Today, I’m going to compose a little about the 2nd misconception: that consuming high quantities of carbohydrates or fats (instead of consuming high protein) is going to make you appear like a little ball of lard (fat).

Let me make one point truly clear, if your objective is to acquire muscle weight and develop muscle mass, consuming low quantities of carbohydrates or fats IS NOT the method to go!

There are numerous that are under the impression that you can get muscle WITHOUT acquiring fat by consuming a high protein, low to moderate fat or low to moderate carbohydrate diet plan.

Well, I’m here to inform you that it could not be even more from the fact.

Back in the 70’s and 80’s everybody was on the “slim” kick.

Individuals believed that you needed to prevent fats at all expenses, even if you were attempting to get muscle weight.

That’s when all of these “low” or “no fat” items struck the marketplaces, profiting from the most current trend.

All of an abrupt, out of no where, with the re-publication of the Atkins Diet book, in the 90’s, and even now, everybody entirely started and made a turn-around to make carbohydrates ENEMY # 1.

Now, it was all dandy and great to consume fats and high protein, “ohhhh, however keep away from those carbohydrates”. Male, are we gullible!

What’s down-right amusing is the reality that whether individuals were following a low fat diet plan or low carbohydrate diet plan, everybody still wasn’t looking any much better.

Individuals still weren’t reaching their bodybuilding/ weight acquiring objectives!

Well, to solve to the point of this matter (because I might blog about this for pages and pages), no matter how you divide your calories, high fat, slim, high protein, low protein, high carbohydrate, low carbohydrate, and so on, you are NOT going to acquire one ounce of muscle weight if you do not consume sufficient total caloriesperiod!!!!!

You can pack protein gram after protein gram down your throat, however if you do not provide your body enough calories, you aren’t going to put on weight.

Vice-versa, you can go on the most affordable carbohydrate or fat diet plan around, however if you are still consuming MORE calories than what your body utilizes daily, you aren’t going to burn fat.

Your body reacts to CALORIES.

Food, despite what type, is absorbed in the stomach, gets transformed into a type of ENERGY, gets sent out to the blood stream, gets moved to the various tissues and organs, where it is then utilized how your body finest chooses.

It isn’t the reality that you are consuming carbohydrates or consuming fats that make individuals obese, it’s the truth that they are consuming a lot of calories, either each day or per sitting!!!!!

If you wish to put on weight, you can not go on a slim or carbohydrate diet plan.

I duplicate, you CAN NOT. Your body requires those calories. It is difficult to get enough calories from simply protein to construct muscle.

It is carbohydrates that gets transformed into glucose, which is the ONLY thing that your muscles can utilize to offer energy to a muscle when it is working out, and is the only compound in the body that presses water and other nutrients into a muscle, which includes to the volume, size, and weight of a muscle.NOT protein!

It is fats that your body utilizes to line the muscle cells and produces the hormonal agents that assist develop muscle mass, like testosteronenot protein! In my next short article I’ll blog about the 3rd protein misconception that’s being spread out.