RAISE YOUR PROTEIN

ADVANCED FAT BURNERS

Tricks And Tactics For Destroying Even The Most Stubborn Body Fat

If you bring your carbs down, something has to go up or your calories would drop too low. That something is protein or fat (or both). Although many mainstream low carb diets (such as Atkins) are actually high fat diets, competitive bodybuilders usually keep the fats low (15% -20% or so) and eat extremely large amounts of protein - sometimes as much as 40 or 50% of their total calories!

Conventional bodybuilding and fat reducing wisdom says you should eat one gram of protein per pound of body weight. This is good advice for someone just starting to establish healthy habits and a baseline diet. For a 172 pound man, that's 172 grams a day, or approximately 30 grams per meal spread over five to six meals.

On the bodybuilder's low carb "advanced diet," 40-50% of total calories comes from protein. That's about 300 - 375 grams of protein a day for most male bodybuilders and 175-225 grams for female bodybuilders.

Yes, I know this is too much protein. In fact, it's an obscene amount of protein. However, (temporary) high protein diets are the way most bodybuilders get so ripped. Eating very high protein speeds up your metabolism due to the thermic effect of protein foods. All the top natural bodybuilders in the high levels of the sport eat 300 - 400 grams a day before contests and sometimes even more. I'm not necessarily recommending this to you; (like they say on MTV's "Jackass" show, don't try this at home!), I'm simply pointing out that this is how most bodybuilders do it.

This article was provided courtesy of Tom Venuto and www.burnthefat.com.
Tom is a lifetime natural bodybuilder, personal trainer, gym owner, freelance writer and author of "Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle" (BFFM): Fat Burning Secrets of the World's Best Bodybuilders and Fitness Models.

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