Body building Low Carb DietA body building low carb diet is a necessity if you want rock hard abs and the kind of lean physique that is common only to the best bodybuilders. If you are ever going to listen to my body building tips, this is probably the most important tip I have for someone who wants to get as lean as possible. A proper low carb diet keeps your insulin levels steady to prevent excessive fat storage, and in fact encourages fat burning. Many of you have probably read that insulin is an anabolic hormone. And if insulin is an anabolic hormone, why would we want to ignore it? Those sentences are both true, and the answer is that we want to maximize the anabolic effects of insulin and minimize the negative aspects, such as fat storage. We can do that with macronutrient manipulation very effectively. What that means is that we can adjust our ratios of Protein, Carbohydrates, and Fats in a way that will produce the results we want in our physiques. One of the more popular nutrition plans for weight trainers does just that. The diet is basically 5 days of low carbs (under 30 grams per day), high protein and high fat. On the weekends you can eat anything you want, especially carbs, and then go back to the low carbohydrate portion of the diet on Monday again. The way this works is that during the 5 days of low carbs, your body switches over to burning fat very efficiently and you are able to lower your overall body fat levels during that time. This is especially helpful to a body building woman. For whatever reason, women seem to really benefit from a body building low carb diet. On the weekends you begin to take in large amounts of carbs, causing a spike in your insulin levels. Because you have not been eating carbs, this causes an anabolic state and all of the carbs are shuttled into your muscle cells until they are full. Once they are full, however, your body will begin to lay down body fat, so you want to switch back to low carb as soon as that happens. Experience will be the best guide for you, but the 5 days low carbs and 2 days high carbs is a good starting point. After a couple of weeks of this, you will want to adjust your overall calories up or down depending upon your goal of either losing body fat or gaining muscle mass. The best way to do that is to eat less fat to lower your calories or add some carbs and protein to gain mass. I have found this body building low carb diet to be a little too strict for me. My body feels fine the whole way through, but I have a hard time choking all the meat down without any carbs after a few days. What I like to do is to slightly raise my carbohydrate levels on the low carb days from 30 grams to 100 grams. It does not hurt me too much, although at 350 pounds, I am a little bigger than most people, so maybe the 30 grams was way too low for me anyway. Either way, if you play around with the carbohydrate levels a little you should be able to find a level that will give you the results you want without too much discomfort. Like I said earlier, there are some great body building tips out there, but the body building low carb diet is the number one way to get those rock hard abs.
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