Bodybuilder Daily Routine:
Difference between a bodybuilder and a physique competitor, anyone who trains with weights is building their body and is therefore a bodybuilder. Can you believe how times have changed? I can remember in my mid-twenties just hating it when people asked if I was a bodybuilder.
At the time there were many associations to being a bodybuilder that were not so great.
No Life Outside Gym:
Take your pick Steroids, narcissistic, no brains, no life outside the gym, etc. Knowing this, I’d answer, If that’s what you want to call me. One thing for certain, I wasn't always as proud as I am today to be a bodybuilder. There are two big reasons why I’m now proud to answer that question with Of course, I’m a bodybuilder. The first …show more content…
Yes, you guessed it; all of them have one thing in common 5 or 6 small meals per day.
Physique Competitors:
Of course all the physique competitors know they should be eating 5 or 6 meals each day. But, more and more, of our normal clients know that they should be eating more small meals, even before I suggest it. They may not know what to eat, but at least I don’t have to work so hard on getting them to accept the fact that eating frequent, smaller meals is the best approach.
Current Nutrition:
I met with a 50 year old female, first-time client whose goal was to start shaping up. When I asked what her current nutrition was like, she didn’t use the common terms, breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Increase Nos of Meals:
Instead she started, for meal one, I eat, and for meal two, and she went all the way through meal 5. This is a woman that lived her whole life eating breakfast, lunch and dinner, and now she calls it Meal 1 through meal 5.
Fix Principles:
Sure, bodybuilders have trained since came up with the Principles in the late 1950’s. But, mainstream the recommendations were: at least three days a week of cardio and two or three day’s resistance training. On resistance training days do one exercise for each body part and 8-12 reps per exercise. Now don’t get me
Difference between a bodybuilder and a physique competitor, anyone who trains with weights is building their body and is therefore a bodybuilder. Can you believe how times have changed? I can remember in my mid-twenties just hating it when people asked if I was a bodybuilder.
At the time there were many associations to being a bodybuilder that were not so great.
No Life Outside Gym:
Take your pick Steroids, narcissistic, no brains, no life outside the gym, etc. Knowing this, I’d answer, If that’s what you want to call me. One thing for certain, I wasn't always as proud as I am today to be a bodybuilder. There are two big reasons why I’m now proud to answer that question with Of course, I’m a bodybuilder. The first …show more content…
Yes, you guessed it; all of them have one thing in common 5 or 6 small meals per day.
Physique Competitors:
Of course all the physique competitors know they should be eating 5 or 6 meals each day. But, more and more, of our normal clients know that they should be eating more small meals, even before I suggest it. They may not know what to eat, but at least I don’t have to work so hard on getting them to accept the fact that eating frequent, smaller meals is the best approach.
Current Nutrition:
I met with a 50 year old female, first-time client whose goal was to start shaping up. When I asked what her current nutrition was like, she didn’t use the common terms, breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Increase Nos of Meals:
Instead she started, for meal one, I eat, and for meal two, and she went all the way through meal 5. This is a woman that lived her whole life eating breakfast, lunch and dinner, and now she calls it Meal 1 through meal 5.
Fix Principles:
Sure, bodybuilders have trained since came up with the Principles in the late 1950’s. But, mainstream the recommendations were: at least three days a week of cardio and two or three day’s resistance training. On resistance training days do one exercise for each body part and 8-12 reps per exercise. Now don’t get me