Lose Fat, Gain Muscle and Bulk Up With The Right Bodybuilding Diets

Before we go into the details of what bodybuilding diets are composed of, let's first and foremost define what the word diet means.

What's A Diet?

The word diet typically sends shivers through people's spine as it is often associated with starvation and with being food deprived. However, a diet is merely the food choices that one makes on a daily basis. For a bodybuilding diet we need to make sure that we select foods that help us to repair and grow from the workouts that we perform while at the same time fostering either a fat burning or a muscle gaining environment.

What Makes Up A Great Bodybuilding Diet?

A great bodybuilding diet, in my opinion, is a balanced diet consisting of 40% carbs, 40% proteins, and 20% Good Fats. This sort of diet seems to work best for the purposes of losing body fat while gaining some muscle. Depending on whether you want to mainly gain muscle and bulk up or mainly lose body fat, you will adjust your calories upwards or downwards accordingly.

Carbohydrates are the body's main source of energy, and on a bodybuilding diet they should come mainly from complex slow releasing sources such as oatmeal, grits, brown rice, sweat potatoes in combination with fibrous sources such as green beans and broccoli.

Proteins, the building blocks for all tissues in the body, should come from chicken, turkey, tuna, and lean red meats.

Fats, which are used by the body to manufacture hormones, lubricate the joints, brain function and other essential items, should mainly come from monounsaturated and polyunsaturated sources. Canned extra virgin olive oil and flax seed oil should be the main sources of these.