bodybuilding diet beginner

what’s up, guys. sean nalewanyj here atwww.seannal.com-www.bodytransformationtruth.com. i was recently asked this question on q&avideo that i did a while back and it said, “what is the one thing you would wishedyou knew when you started lifting?” i sat down to think about it and pretty quicklyi came up with seven things that i wished i knew. i wanted to share those with you todayin this video. now there’re definitely more than seven things that i did wrong along theway, but these are just some of the main ones that came to mind first and foremost. if you’restill a beginner yourself then hopefully you can learn from and benefit from the mistakesthat i made as it applies to your program, and if you’re more advance then i’m suresome of these will sound very familiar and

you can just use them as a reminder. so, thetop seven bodybuilding mistakes that i’ve made, in no particular order: mistake numberone would be the overly aggressive dreamer bulk, in other words, having the goal of wantingto be as huge and muscular as possible and then going ahead and eating massive amountsof food and thinking that more calories automatically means more muscle. so i’m about 5’8”-5’9”,this morning i weighed in at 174 pounds and in the past i’ve actually been as heavyas 228 ponds, which for my frame is basically, just ridiculous. i just wanted to gain asmuch size as i possibly could and i went completely overboard on calories thinking that i wasputting on a bunch of muscle, when in reality a huge percentage of it was just fat, andi had to drop over 30 pounds before i started

to look half decent again. this is actuallyone of the most common bodybuilding mistakes there is and most serious lifters have probablygone through a solid dreamer bulk face at some point, but hindsight it’s really justnot a good approach all around. muscle growth is a slow and gradual process, your body canonly build a very limited amount of muscle over any given time frame and any caloriesthat you take in beyond what your body can use for muscle growth, those are just goingto end up as body fat, and if you get excessively fat then you won’t feel good, you won’tlook good and you’ll have to go through the whole tedious cutting process in orderto get rid of it. if i could go back i would’ve just stuck with a smaller calorie surplusand focused on making gradual lean gains rather

than trying to rushed things. bodybuildingmistake number two was not treating my joints with enough respect. when you first startlifting and you don’t have any injuries, you sort of thinks you’re invincible andthat nothing can go wrong, and you just want to make gains at whatever cost and that makesyou liable to do plenty of stupid things in the gym, and that eventually catch up to youand can cost real problems. i can’t say that i always train with pretty good form,but i definitely made the mistake of pushing the envelope a bit too far, thinking thatmore intensity automatically meant more gains, so i used a lot of forced reps, heavy negatives,rest pause, always training to failure and beyond, just thinks that when you [inaudible],but i was basically doing them every single

time i trained and as a result i ended upwith issues in my shoulders, in my low-back, my elbows, and the truth is that a lot ofthose things still affect me to a certain degree to this day, so if i could go backi would’ve done more thorough warm-ups, i would’ve included mobility work in myprogram and i would’ve dialed the intensity back because training to that level just isn’tnecessary to maximize muscle growth anyway. injury prevention should actually be treatedas a primary concern because your ability to train and build muscle, it hinges on thefact that your joints are healthy enough to do so in the first place, and if you do getinjured, depending on how serious it is, your entire program can be pretty seriously compromised.bodybuilding mistake number three was being

overly concern with small nutritional detailslike meal frequency and meal timing. now, back in the first few years when i was gettinginto bodybuilding it was common knowledge that you needed to eat a meal every two tothree hours to stay anabolic and to keep your metabolism boosted, or that you needed tohave a fast absorbing whey protein and simple sugars within ten minutes post-workout orthat you needed slow released protein before bed. all these little highly specific nutritionstrategies that are now generally refer to as broscience and that we now know for themost part just not necessary. having to sit around all day worrying about getting in ameal exactly every three hours or consuming specific types of foods at different timesof day for various reasons, that was one of

the bodybuilding mistakes that cause a lotof unnecessary stress and forced me to structure my day around food a lot more than what wasnecessary. so if i could go back i would’ve just focused on meeting my overall nutritionalneeds for the day as a whole and i would’ve just spaced my meals out based on my hungerand on my daily schedule. i would’ve gotten the same results that way and hugely simplifiedmy eating plan. proper muscle building and fat burning nutrition is mostly just aboutthe big picture and worrying about exact meal frequency or exact meal timing, it can havethat some application depending on a person specific goals, but for the vast majorityof people it won’t really make any noticeable difference to the results. mistake four alsoties in to nutrition and that mistake was

being overly concern with individual foodas being good or bad rather than just looking at the overall dietary picture as a whole.i used to think, “well, i’m a bodybuilder and bodybuilders eat canned tuna, they eatchicken breast and brown rice and they don’t eat pizza or they don’t eat cookies, thereforei should only eat clean food and i should avoid all junk foods”. again, nutritionis all about the big picture and as long as the bulk of your intake is coming from, whatwe traditionally considered healthy, minimally processed whole foods, then it’s not goingto negatively affect your results if you include a bit of junk food in moderation. so if icould go back i wouldn’t have sat around eating tuna straight from the can, or chokingdown certain protein shakes that i really

didn’t want to drink, or thinking that icould only eat brown rice and never eat white rice, or things like that. i wished i’djust recognize that it mainly comes down to overall macro and micro nutrients for theday as a whole, and not individual foods because that would’ve made my diet a lot more enjoyableand less stressful as well. mistake number five an extremely common one but it has tobe mentioned because i definitely did this myself and that was over emphasis on supplements.i used to have, behind my bedroom door, a bunch of shelves and at one point my roompretty much look like a miniature supplement store. these shelves were just stacked fromtop to bottom with all kind of useless crap; glutamine, nitric oxide boosters, i took testosteroneboosters, different types of protein powder

to suit different situations, a fast absorbingprotein for post-workout and a slow released protein before bed, i had pre-workouts, ihad amino acid pills, just so many different things, and this was for a teenager who onlyworked part-time and didn’t have a lot money to spend in the first place. now, you guysknow that i’m highly critical of the supplement industry now, and the fact is that it’scompletely justified because most of what’s out there is not worth your money and it won’thave any real noticeable effects at all. the supplement industry is basically just a bigmarketing machine and there really are only a handful of bodybuilding supplements thatare even worth trying, but of course back then i wasn’t aware of that. so if i couldgo back, especially at that stage, still being

a novice i would’ve saved probably thousandsof dollars that i wasted, and just stuck with the basics. so, shifting gears a little bit,mistake number six is that i wasn’t skeptical enough of the bodybuilding advice that i wasreceiving from others. a lot of times when you’re new to the subject and you don’tknow a lot about it, you tend to just accept it at face value what the experts in thatarea tell you. so if some [inaudible] guy at the gym told me something about trainingor nutrition i just assumed it was true, or if i read something online or in print i justassumed it was true and i even assume that what people working in supplement stores toldme was true. i now fully aware that the bodybuilding and fitness industry is actually completelyfull of misinformation and that some of the

people, for example right here on youtube,some of the people who beginners look up to most, regularly put out misleading adviceeither by accident because they don’t know better or intentionally to trying sell products.becoming aware just how much misinformation there is in the area of fitness it causedme to become a lot more skeptical in other areas as well, which i think is a good thingbecause it causes you to search deeper and look for more evidence behind things and findthe real facts rather than just accepting what anybody tells you at face value. so ifi could go back i would’ve been more scientific with my approach, i would’ve taken the advicethat people gave me and held it to sort of a higher level of scrutiny, and if i had donethat then maybe i would’ve been able to

avoid some of the mistakes that i’ve mentionedup until now. finally, bodybuilding mistake number seven is that, in hindsight i feelnow i just took the whole thing a bit too seriously and i should’ve had more overalllife balance. so i was the guy who would turn down invitations to go out because i was worriedthat i wouldn’t get my meals in, i was the guy who would be training at gym at 09:00pm on a saturday night or who would get stressed out going on trips because i thought i mightmiss the workout. at the time i thought it just meant that i was being hardcore and thati was sacrificing to win, but in hindsight it was actually just unnecessary to take itto that extreme and if i knew then what i know now, i wouldn’t have revolved my lifearound bodybuilding so much but instead i’d

have bodybuilding be something that revolvedaround my life, and i wouldn’t have just taking it so seriously in general. don’tget me wrong, i love working out, i love being in shape but realistically unless you’recompeting or you’re directly making a living from it, it actually doesn’t require a hugeamount of time and a huge amount of effort to get the body that you want. it only takesa few hours per week of training, keep your nutrition reasonably on point for the dayas a whole, a couple basic supplements, sleep well and once you get into a routine withit, it really doesn’t require a whole lot of thought or a whole lot of sacrifice. soif i could go back now, i would’ve gone out more in my late teens and in my earlytwenties instead of turning down invites because

i thought it was going to interfere with mymuscle gains, i would’ve been more flexible with my diet, if i fell off track a bit iwould’ve realized that it wasn’t actually a big deal and i would’ve been just easieron myself and realize that bodybuilding is not that serious and that fitness should besomething that adds to your life rather than being the sole focus. now that’s just me,if fitness is your sole focus and you’re genuinely happy with it then obviously that’sfine, but in retrospect now, looking back and then having change my ways a bit towardbodybuilding and fitness is something that i just do, but i don’t think too much aboutand don’t get stressed out about. i can say now that i’m definitely more contentthis way. so a bit of longer video here, but

i hope you guys found these bodybuilding mistakeshelpful. it is kind of fun to think back on this stuff and see how much i’ve actuallylearn and evolves since then. so i hope you guys enjoyed it. make sure to follow me onfacebbok, twitter and instagram if you aren’t already. if you want to get a step-by-steproadmap that outlines everything i’ve learned about proper training, nutrition and supplementation,so that you can avoid all of these bodybuilding mistakes i made and get the body you wantwithout having to give up your entire life or revolve your whole life around your program,then you grab my body transformation blueprint

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