Body Building meal timing

Body building meals consisting of natural, healthy foods and ingredients is a great start to a muscle building diet, however it is also important to time the body building meals correctly. During growth muscle cells require a constant and regular supply of all necessary nutrients, particularly the amino acids, along with B vitamins and vitamin C.

Healthy balanced body building meals need to be eaten regularly throughout the day in order to maintain optimum amino acid levels in the blood. High levels of amino acids circulating in the blood enables cells to access the building blocks exactly when needed for muscle growth and development.

The day should be started with a good breakfast eaten within half-hour after waking. Remember fast muscle growth uses nutrient stores rapidly so after sleeping for 8 hours nutrient levels will be low. A good breakfast will help replenish used nutrients and encourage the body to speed up recovery and growth.

After a big body building breakfast it would be wise to eat a simple, light snack so not to bloat the stomach easily and make room for a lunchtime meal. Eat the first snack of the day about 3-4 hours after breakfast and make sure it contains a little protein.

There should be an alternation between meals and snacks to ease the stress on the stomach, for example breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner and light snack before bed. This technique allows foods to be consumed every 3 hours and limit a constant feeling of fullness. Timing the eating this way also enables 5-6 body building meals to be consumed each day for faster muscle growth.

On a training day a main meal should try to be eaten within half-hour after a workout so meals and snacks may need to be adjusted accordingly depending on what time training finishes.

Make sure all meals and snacks are well balanced and mostly made up of healthy, highly nutritious foods. Like all good bodybuilding meals it should provide a little high quality protein and good complex carbohydrates.

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Stretching exercises for warming up the whole Body

Two-part split routine which I used after the above basic workouts