The holy grail of anabolism is building muscle without also building body fat as well. For decades, it was believed that this was impossible, that no one could ever hope to add muscle without adding fat stores as well. In recent years, several diet and nutrition developments have been made. These have indicated to scientists and body builders alike that building lean muscle without the fat is possible.
What it comes down to is macro nutrient levels, eating at the right times, and taking in the perfect amount of calories, protein and carbohydrates based on your somanatype (body type), fitness goals, and workout style. Following diet plans provided by magazines will certainly put your body into an anabolic (muscle building) state, however they are not custom tailored to your body type or fitness goals. The end result is muscle and fat gains. Muscle is difficult to build, and easy to lose. Body fat, however, is easy to gain, and hard to lose. Even worse, once you have gained a fat cell, it's with you for life. You will never be able to get rid of it. Empty fat cells make it easier to gain body fat, which is exactly what you don't want.
The key to gaining lean muscle without the fat, lies with your diet. It has been said that body building is 90% nutrition, and 10% lifting weights. And that number is about as accurate as it gets. Simply put, there is no "universal" nutrition program. The only way to maximize your body building efforts, while keeping body fat at bay, is to follow a 100% customized nutrition program, that has been designed specifically for you and your goals. Up until recently, doing this meant spending your hard earned dollar to see a body building specific nutritionist. Not a cheap exercise. Today, there are several different programs out there that will automatically and accurately create nutrition programs geared towards you, your body type and your goals. I'll be blogging a bit more in the future about some of the programs that I have had success with, one of which is the Somanabolic Muscle Maximizer. There are other programs out there, but I'm definitely a big fan of the Somanabolic Muscle Maximizer. It was the first (and only) custom nutrition program I have ever used, I doubt I will ever switch.
Take care and check back later for more lean muscle info!
