Daryl1765’s BodyBlog

All of us like to look good year round. Eating clean is important and is a big part of anyones regimen if they are serious about fitness. From a bodybuilding standpoint you can eat too clean off season. If yiou think you are big enough and don’t need to put any size on then I guess you can get away with staying 10-15lbs from contest shape,but I don’t know anyone who competes who thinks they are big enough. One of the mistakes people commonly make is eating the same foods day in and day out. They do this because it is easy. But remember, when you leave out certain types of foods you can become difficient in certain nutrients. For example, those that don’t eat wheat products can become difficient in b vitamins, you can suppliment but our body does not absorb vitamins as well from supplimentation as it does from the digestive process of food. Don’t be afraid to "indulge" occasionally. It does more good than harm. Eating extra clean is most important during dieting for competition and it should be. Off season just make sure you are getting enough calories and nutrients. Don’t forget there is more to being healthy than protein,good carbs and unsaturated fats. If you are difficient in vitamins and minerals your body and its metabolic and anabolic processes do not work properly. Eat healthy and balanced and don’t cut out certain foods completely. We need a diverse diet to be our best.

Come on, we’ve all been guilty of it at some point. Overtraining. The old saying "balls to the wall" can get us in trouble, especially as age creeps up on us. What is overtraining? Good question. A simple answer to a complicated question is training harder than necessary. What is necessary? Well for different individuals the answer is different. We want to stimulate our muscles to the point of fitigue but not so much so that we don’t recover when it is time to train that body part again. We have all heard the age old comment that we should not train a bodypart more than everyother day.This is true if you perform one exercise per bodypart. How many of us who are serious about fitness only perform one exercise per bodypart? Remember you only grow when you are in recovery not while you are training. If you are constantly training when are you growing? Different individuals have different recovery needs. Nutrition,sleep patterns, and training regimens have a lot to do with recovery. What are signs of overtraining? 1st off, joint pain,insomnia,lack of strength gain or plateaus, loss of motivation are all tell tale signs of overtraining. Sometimes the way you plot your workouts can lead to overtraining. For example: doing shoulders or triceps the day after chest. Almost every chest exercise involves the shoulders and triceps to some degree. Therefore doing shoulders or triceps the day after chest is going to screw you up because both the shoulders and the triceps are goinig to be in a semmi recovery mode following a chest workout. The same can be said for training biceps the day after back. What’s the moral of the story? Stimulate do not anilate!

Don’t worry about too many carbs. Be more concerned with what type of carbs. Our muscles run on ATP and glycogen. Atp is manufactured by the body glycogen only comes from carbs. Too little carbs leads to muscle loss and piss poor workouts!!!

We must eat to live not live to eat. Food is the number one reason we look like we do!

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