Is This The Best Bodybuilding Diet On The Planet?

Posted on January 22, 2008

How the ‘MuscleHack Anabolic Nutrition Strategy’ (MANS) Accelerates Muscle Growth

It works by increasing anabolic (muscle building) hormones in the body in the same way that steroids do. The only difference is, it’s safe and natural.

Here’s how…

This diet will naturally maximize your body’s production of the following anabolic hormones:

1. Testosterone

2. Growth Hormone

3. Insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1)

Breakdown of the ‘MuscleHack Anabolic Nutritional Strategy’ (MANS)

This plan requires that you eat a high protein, high fat, low carbohydrate diet for 5 and a half days. Then for 36 hours you carb-up. The high protein, high fat part of the diet is what sparks the increase in blood serum levels of:

1. Testosterone

2. Growth Hormone

3. IGF-1 (insulin-like growth hormone production is stimulated by growth hormone)

Fat Adaptation

During the low-carb part of the diet your body will become a fat-burning machine i.e. your body will burn fat as is primary source of fuel due to the relative absence of carbohydrate in the diet. At the beginning of the diet your body will undergo a metabolic shift which normally takes 2-3 days.

The advantages of this are:

Increased Lipolysis (breakdown of fat)

Decreased Lipogenesis (production of fat)

Decreased catabolism (muscle protein is spared from breakdown)

Insulin Isn’t your Enemy

Increasing insulin through a carb-loading period is beneficial because:

It helps shuttle amino acids into the muscle cells

Increases Protein Synthesis in skeletal muscle

Glycogen supercompensation (you’ll look a lot bigger when you carb-load).

How to Start

I recommend you start out at 30 grams of carbohydrate per day and adjust from there. Consume plenty of:

Red meat

Chicken

Eggs

Non-Starchy Vegetables like cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, celery-root

Mushrooms, lettuce, onions, tomato…

Cheeses

Cream

Nuts especially walnuts and almonds

Here’s to the best gains of your life!

Mark McManus is the owner of the popular bodybuilding blog MuscleHack.com where you can pick up a free copy of his book ‘Total Anabolism‘. He is also the author of the book ‘Total Six Pack Abs’, the complete, definite guide to sculpting ripped abs.

Article Author :Mark_Mcmanus