Saturday, January 3, 2009

Why A Good Bodybuilding Diet Plan Is Really Important

By Ricardo d Argence

When you become a bodybuilder, you will need strong determination, will power, dedication, change in your routine and lifestyle, daily exercise, and a healthy diet. Bodybuilders have always been the masters of dieting. other than body builders, no other athlete has been able to manipulate their body exactly the way that they want to.

Bodybuilders have a unique talent losing and gaining body weight, just by adjusting their diet the right way. Of course, a proper workout program is important in order to have a perfect V-shape body with bulging muscles, but equally important is your diet. Many people have the idea that not eating will help them lose weight. Though it is true, it is not a healthy way of shedding extra weight.

Surprisingly, eating well can contribute to weight loss. You cant just go out and eat everything and anything you want and expect to loose weight. If you want to shed weight and shape your body, it calls for a proper diet plan.

Be it maintaining a healthy body or building a physique like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone, in any case you require a proper diet plan, which will help you boost your body building process. Now that you know how important a role healthy diet plan plays in the process of bodybuilding, you may be wondering what a bodybuilding diet plan is all about.

You should eat nutritious and healthy foods in right amounts if you are on a body building diet. In order for you to build a nice-toned healthy muscualr body we will have to take a look at what types of diet plans would be best for you.

Breakfast: 1 cup cooked non-instant oatmeal. Seven scrambled eggs (1 whole+6 or more whites). 1 cup coffee. 1 glass of apple juice.

First Snack: 1 small glass of water. 1 protein shake.

Lunch time: 1 can tuna fish. 2 slices of wheat bread. 1 spoon of sweet relish. Dash of celery-salt. 1 large glass of water.

Snack: 1 protein shake. 1 small glass of water

Dinner: 1 salmon steak or baked boneless chicken breast. 1 serving of brown rice. 1 serving of green beans. 1 large glass of water.

Before going to bed: 1 protein shake. 1 small glass of water.

You must have noticed that all your meals have one thing in common that is water. This is because water plays a very important role in your bodybuilding diet plan. It is usually recommended to have 8-9 glasses of water every day. Water helps to boost up your body building process, therefore, make sure you have enough water every day.

So to conclude, for a healthy and a muscular body it is very important to follow a proper diet plan. In case you are working towards building a muscular body then considering the abovementioned diet plan along with your workout program is sure to help you a great deal in achieving your goal faster than you expect. - 15432

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