Healthy Diet at Home

how important is nutrition in bodybuilding– athletic performance todd: hi. my name's todd from sporty’s health[dot] com [dot] au. i'm here today with dale from bsn. something that we often get askedis how important is nutrition in body building, athletic performance, and just exercise recoveryand so forth. dale what are your thoughts on that?dale: i represent two supplement companies, diet for building muscle, basically nutrition is paramount, is the mostimportant thing a person can be doing. if you're macro nutrients are sub-standard orbelow where they need to be these things can't work. they can maybe get you back up to whereyou should be but you're not going to get the results that you're expecting. food isthe most important thing. one of the first things i'll ask somebody is how many timesa day are you eating. you want to ascertain what their goal is. so if they're trying toput on muscle, if they're trying to lose body fat, let's break it...

(This is part 5 of a multi-part series on How to Tweak a Low Carb Diet . It discusses my weight loss journey so far. If you didn't read part 1, you can do so by clicking on the how-to link. Part 1 also includes links to the rest of this series.) After leaving the Kimkins’ weight loss diet behind, I began reading through Lyle McDonald’s website and body building forum because of a comment I received to one of my blog posts. This commenter had gotten stuck when she was almost to goal weight and had broken her stall by incorporating Lyle’s technique of using refeeds to reset her Leptin and other hormone levels back to normal. She warned me that the forum participants were not always nice to each other, especially newbies, and that they could be a bit over-the-top, but she believed the information I would find there would help me decide what to do next. That piqued my interest. Not only because I trusted the source of that information, but because I knew there had to be a valid reason ...