After following conventional bodybuilding recipes for years with little success, it became apparent to me that for the most part, bodybuilding is a sport of myths and half-truths. The biggest myth that still exists is the "eat more" line. People will tell you to eat more if you have hit a plateau, but will never specify why, or what you should eat more of. The end result is that you will still be stuck at the same plateau, only now you will have more body fat. Not very successful, if you ask me.
When someone tells you to eat more, they are full of it, to put it bluntly. They are just another one of the many thousands who blindly follow whatever they read in the magazines, or on the message boards. They are probably waddling around with excess body fat, as well. The truth is that you don't necessarily have to eat more, you probably just have to tweak your nutrition a bit in order to break through a plateau and continue on your way. In the old days, this meant seeking out expensive nutritionists who would charge an arm and a leg to custom tailor a diet to your body type, goals and workout routine. Thousands of dollars later, you could finally bust through your plateau and continue. Today, thanks to the Internet and science, the cost has dropped from the thousands to the hundreds, and from the hundreds to the tens of dollars. Today, there are various programs available from various nutritionists that will custom Tailor a diet plan to your goals, body type and lifting habits. My personal favorite, and the one I have been using for as long as I can remember, is the Somanabolic Muscle Maximizer (or simply SMM). You fill in your info, and get to work (with the programs help, of course) creating a custom nutrition program that is designed for you, and only you. It will assist you in breaking through plateau's, while adding lean mass without adding body fat at the same time. Click here to visit the Somanabolic Muscle Maximizer website to watch a free presentation on why diet is 90% of body building.
I'll be adding more myths to this page in a bit, once I've decided with ones are driving me crazy enough to sit down and write about them!
