While it’s true to build muscle you need to eat more, the biggest mistake you can make — which could set you back months — is to take that as a ticket to eat anything and everything. You need to know which are the best sources of food for building muscle, if you are to make your muscle gains in the quickest time possible, and avoid putting on fat by taking in empty calories which the muscles can’t find a use for.
The best sources of food for building muscle are whole foods. Whole foods are simply foods which have minimal processing. Foods such as eggs, milk, cheese, fish, beef, chicken, cheese, pasta, rice, oats, etc.
For instance, burgers from McDonalds or the TV Dinner you have in your freezer won’t cut it.
That is because whole foods contain useful energy. That means their calorie contents are made up of useful nutrients; nutrients the body can use to build muscle.
A lot of junk foods are made from sub par nutrients, so while they may have high calorie values, they contain sub par and empty calories, which means the muscles can’t use it, but, the empty calories will be stored as fat.
Lager is one such classic example – it contains plenty of calories, but aside from the negative effects of alcohol on building muscle, the actual calories themselves are empty and can only be stored as fat.
You now know what to eat — whole foods — and you should make sure that your diet is made up of this type of food, and only on the rare occasion should you have junk food… or ‘cheat meals’, as they are known in bodybuilding.