Mad Scientist Muscle by Nick Nilsson

Author:Nick Nilsson [Nilsson, Nick]
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781936910557
Publisher: Price World Publishing, LLC
Published: 2011-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Even if it might be better to eat smaller more frequent meals, sometimes in the real world, it doesn’t always work out that way. It’s simple enough to go with the flow and get great muscle building results when you can at least control WHAT you eat, if not when.

The Low Carb Eating Option

If you’ve heard of the Atkins Diet, then you’re probably familiar with low-carb eating. The premise of the low-carb diet (and there are many others besides the more-famous Atkins Diet) is simple: by depriving your body of it’s preferred fuel, the carbohydrate, you force it to rely on fat stores for energy.

So how in the heck does THAT fit in with a MUSCLE-BUILDING plan?

I’ll tell you and it’s for a number of reasons...all of which have the potential to force more muscle onto your body while keeping you lean.

And before I go any further, the low-carb/reduced-calorie eating is only going to be 2 days a week, IF you decide to give it a try. It’s totally optional but I’ve found it to be an extremely useful technique for actually increasing muscle growth while keep bodyfat gains to a minimum. If you prefer not to utilize the Low Carb Option, though, no problem!

You can do it every week, every other week or even every third week - it’s totally up to you.

Here’s why it works...

1. Carb Loading

When you restrict carbs, your body uses up it’s stores of glycogen (the form in which carbs are stored in your muscles and liver for later use by the body). Over the course of a day or two of restricted-carb eating, your body uses up all that stored glycogen.

Your body doesn’t like being deprived...

So this deprivation sets up a need in your body to STORE as many carbs as it can when you introduce them back into your diet. You might be familiar with the term “carb loading”...that’s exactly what this is all about.

When you go back to eating carbs, your body can store up to one and a half times the amount of glycogen as it normally would.

Now here’s the thing...glycogen stores don’t really do a whole lot for muscle growth directly BUT what happens when your body is rapidly taking up extra carbs into the muscles is that a lot of water and other nutrients (like amino acids) come along for the ride.

That is an EXTREMELY anabolic situation in your body! We’re basically trying to mimic the effects of “rebound weight gain” that people on diets see when they come off a diet only in a good way.

It’s this anabolic inrush of nutrients and water that we’re looking to take advantage of with the carb-deprivation and loading.

2. Insulin Sensitivity

One of the other big pieces of the puzzle with low-carb eating is insulin. Insulin is your body’s primary storage hormone. It’s absolutely critical for maximum muscle growth.

Your body CAN get amino acids and other nutrients into the muscles without high insulin levels. Think of that is as people going in the front door of a house one by one.

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