Is eating every 3 hours really nessecary for body building?
I go the gym 6 days a week and work a different body part each day and rest on sunday. How important is diet really for body building. I really dont have an appetite large enought to eat every 3 hours so if i dont have to i wont, and if i do have to is there an alternative way? Please god help me.
It’s an accepted standard of sorts, but not always necessary. The main idea behind that is to constantly give your metabolism something to do thus its used as a tool for weight control. It doesn’t matter if you’re going up or down in weight. It’s just easier to manage by having a routine of eating something every three hours or so. It’s not just when you eat it’s also what you eat. Those meals every three hours are no more then a half a bowl full of some type of food. It’s not a big sit down meal. The three biggest ones are, breakfast, a light meal an hour before the workout and a light carb load within an hour after the workout. Timing is the key when trying to shed fat and get ripped for a show. I have one coming up in Sept and I’ve been on that sort of routine for over 5 years. Most I know at the gym do something similar. It works for me and I’ve been at it a while so it’s easy for me. I don’t really like it, I just do it. For me it seems I’m always eating, cooking, cleaning dishes. I now cook enough food on a Sunday to last for that type of meal format for seven days. If I were still married I would have a hard time doing that. It’s a lot easier since I’m the only one I have to cook for.
You do not need to eat every three hours.
You want to eat something with some protein before or soon after lifting so that your muscles have the building blocks to rebuild.
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It’s an accepted standard of sorts, but not always necessary. The main idea behind that is to constantly give your metabolism something to do thus its used as a tool for weight control. It doesn’t matter if you’re going up or down in weight. It’s just easier to manage by having a routine of eating something every three hours or so. It’s not just when you eat it’s also what you eat. Those meals every three hours are no more then a half a bowl full of some type of food. It’s not a big sit down meal. The three biggest ones are, breakfast, a light meal an hour before the workout and a light carb load within an hour after the workout. Timing is the key when trying to shed fat and get ripped for a show. I have one coming up in Sept and I’ve been on that sort of routine for over 5 years. Most I know at the gym do something similar. It works for me and I’ve been at it a while so it’s easy for me. I don’t really like it, I just do it. For me it seems I’m always eating, cooking, cleaning dishes. I now cook enough food on a Sunday to last for that type of meal format for seven days. If I were still married I would have a hard time doing that. It’s a lot easier since I’m the only one I have to cook for.
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