6 Simple Nutrition Rules To Gain More Muscle & Strength
Jul 29, 2024When it comes to putting on mass and strength, it’s paramount to fuel your body properly. Real whole foods must lay the foundation of your diet and proper supplementation will top it off.
Eating properly and sustainably:
- Uses whole foods only
- Optimizes gut health and digestion
- Helps correct nutrient deficiencies and hormones imbalances
- Improves energy, stamina, endurance and recovery
- Is based on a sustainable lifestyle
This way of eating supports:
- Weight loss
- Muscle gain
- Performance
- Health optimization
*for both MEN, WOMEN, and KIDS
Let's dive into the rules for nutrition to gain mass and strength.
1. EAT FOR PURPOSE, NOT FOR PLEASURE
If you’re serious about adding mass and strength, you must give your body the proper raw materials (food) to do that!
2. YOU MUST OPTIMIZE YOUR ENERGY BALANCE
In order to gain mass and strength, you must be eating in a CALORIC SURPLUS! I recommend eating in a 10-15% caloric surplus of your Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE) which is how many calories you’re burning on average per day.
Do this for 3 WEEKS then take 1 WEEK OFF and just eat at maintenance calories so you don’t gain unnecessary fat.
3. REAL WHOLE UNPROCESSED NATURAL FOODS
We thrive on a species appropriate diet of real food because we as humans are just like any other species on earth and just look at what they eat. No garbage, processed food.
4. EAT AN ANIMAL BASED DIET
I highly recommend that your diet consists of 70-80% high quality animal foods, 20-30% high quality plant foods, and 10% proper supplementation.
5. YOUR BODY IS A DIRECT REFLECTION OF THE FOODS YOU PUT INTO IT
This is an UNDENIABLE FACT. I guarantee that with the proper training and the proper nutrition your body will transform. It will have no choice. Provide it with what it needs to perform.
6. CHANGE THE WAY YOU VIEW FOOD AND IMPROVE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD
When you eat food, you should ask yourself this question “What is this meal about to do for me right now? Is it going to help me get closer to my goals or further away from my goals?"
A healthy relationship with food will only lead to the gains you're looking for.
The foundation of my diet is both highly bioavailable macronutrients and micronutrients that your body can easily digest and assimilate.
This was an excerpt from Coach Tanner Shuck's Anabolic Meal Plan. To get it for a discounted rate, click here.
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