DIET

Making it work


Food is paramount Supplements won’t make you big, diet will. You need to eat good food to grow, and the diet is the main key to your success.
 Training is nothing without this, and I cannot stress enough that you need to have a good diet to get anywhere in this. I have seen people train for years and get nowhere because their diet wasn’t on the mark – all of that time in the gym has been wasted when it didn’t have to be. Eat right, and eat lots.

 Keep It Realistic 

 The first and foremost thing with diet is to keep it realistic.
 When building a diet, you need to ensure that not only are the meal times realistic and fit in with your dayto-day schedule, but also that you can have the food prepared and ready to eat at that time.
 You also need to keep it realistic in terms of how much you’re going to eat, especially with bulking. Quite often new guys will plan to eat a stack of food, but end up full, and end up skipping meals.


 Get used to counting calories

lClose enough isn’t good enough if you want to achieve a perfect body. It’s not all about counting every single calorie you eat though, it’s all about planning.
 To start out, you’ll probably want to make a few different diets, and then vary them so you don’t get bored. This way, when you make a spreadsheet of your diet or write it all out, you’ll already have it all nicely laid out for the day and won’t need to continuously add everything up as you go – you just need to stick to the plan you made.

Failing to plan is planning to fail

You need to plan – not just what you’re going to eat, but you need to make sure it’s there and ready to eat when you need it. The biggest tip I can give you here is to cook the night before. Do it in a batch, and get used to microwaving. If you can manage to have your whole days food cooked and ready to go, then you’ll have no excuses to skip meals, and you’ll have a much easier time sticking to your diet. The Ratio’s The ideal ratio for a diet for most people is as follows: Protein: 40% Carbs: 40% Fat: 20% If you follow this ratio and calculate your calories dependent on what you want to achieve, you will automatically have the right amount of everything you need. For endomorphs it is quite common to drop the fat to as low as 10%, and up the protein and carbs evenly