What You Should Know about Building Lean Muscle
How to build lean muscle is based on one clear-cut fact: how much protein and calories you are ingesting each and every day. When you weight train and eat properly, with enough protein, you will burn fat and build muscle.
Your protein consumption should be increased while cutting down your body fat through eating properly. But here’s something else to consider, if you’re not eating right, then you have no reason to be in the gym; you’re actually harming your body if you do.
So, if you want to understand how to build lean muscle, you will need to do a few things — one is to keep a food journal for about two weeks in which you record all the food you eat, how many calories you get for each meal and how much protein you are consuming each day.
The minute you’ve done this, you may now start a strategy that will basically increase your muscle while burning off fat. Also, you must be able to find out exactly how much protein will you need to consume everyday.
If you weigh 165 lbs, and you want to weigh 185 lbs, then you need to eat like someone who weighs 185 lbs, and the key to that is consuming 1.5 your body weight (or goal body weight) in grams of protein.
So the guy who weighs 165 lbs, but who wants to weigh 185 lbs needs to consume 225 g A DAY to reach that weight and build that lean muscle mass.
225 g of protein is a lot, but not if you’re used to eating that much food. If you eat 5 to 6 meals a day and take in 45 grams of protein in each one, you’ll get to your goal. Body mass should be maintained by eating at constant levels. Once you’re eating right, you‘ll need to establish a weight-training routine that gradually builds as you graduate up the scales.
Of course, eating right also means eating smart and by this, we mean selecting menu items that are high in protein, vitamins & minerals, especially Omega-3s (good fat) and low in bad fat. To get the required dosage every day, you might want to try taking a quality protein shake although chicken, tuna and other fishes are also good options.
Carbs, you can take in all the carbs you want just as long as you’re getting the protein that you need, because you’ll be burning lots of carb calories during the workouts which requires an intense cardio routine.
There are lots of healthy carbs on the grocery store shelves, like fruit, vegetables, nuts, and grains, so don’t think that carbs are solely from fastfood. It is important to note that junk foods contain useless carbs that you should stay away from, instead get your carbs from natural fruits and vegetables.
Junk foods have no protein value so you’ll have stay away from those, and your main goal will be to reach your daily protein requirement and eating whatever else you want later.
Now you know the key factors involved in how to build lean muscle mass, don’t forget to take a multi-vitamin every day while you’re working out. This will help you push your body to the maximum while replenishing everything that’s getting used up.
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