Carbohydrates Intake
Carbs are essential for bodybuilders to gain mass. Adequate amount of carbs not only helps in fueling your body with the daily energy but also helps your body to fully utilize the amino acids for muscle growth. Carbs are chiefly responsible for release of “insulin” release which shuttles amino acids and other vital nutrients into your muscles for growth. But it is essential to take as many clean complex carbohydrates as possible, because increased intake can result in fat storage. Processed food induces overproduction of insulin, while fibrous cleaner carbs stabilizes the production of insulin which inturn suppresses the fat storing ability of hormone.
Since carbs is the basic source of energy, minerals, vitamins and fiber for your body, so carb intake is necessary for weight loss diet. But it is essential to stick to a diet plan with clean complex carbohydrates rich in fiber.
There are some diet plans like South Beach Diet and Atkins which are low carb diet. These diets plans will be discussed in details in separate sections.
Water Intake
Whether you plan to add mass or lose weight water plays a major role. No one can deny the importance of water as your 2/3 of your body is water, it lubricates your body, allows your muscles to contract harder and speeds up recovery, maintains temperature and perform some million other functions. As a rule, you should consume atleast 10, 8 ounces glasses of water every day.
Supplementation
Word “supplement” means “something which makes up for a deficiency; addition, extra added part”. This literally is the function of supplementation. It won’t replace the meat and potatoes of the nutrition. Supplements help body big time once the basic nutritional requirements are taken care of.
