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Body Building Recipes That Help Build Muscle And Strength

"Don't Know What To Eat To Build Muscle? Try These Great Tasting Muscle Building Recipes"



Let's face it, healthy recipes gotta taste good. They not only do they gotta taste good, they got to be easy and fast to make. I don't know about you but I've had my share of tasteless chicken breasts and plain pasta. This kind of plain diet can test even the most dedicated of weight lifters out there.

Food high in quality calories, carbohydrates, protein, and fat is an absolute necessity if you want to build muscle. Although a necessity, muscle food has to taste good as well as being easy to cook.

Eating plain chicken breast and tasteless pasta day in and day out is a thing of the past. The trick is to find quick and easy recipes that taste good. With healthy recipes, I've learned that you have to be a little creative with your food if you want to survive any length of time with a weight lifting diet. I find that great tasting and easy to cook body building recipes very helpful when putting together a complete diet.

When I first started weight training, there were no body building recipes, healthy recipes, healthy cook books or any other health recipes that would help improve the taste of plain chicken breasts that were healthy and inducive to building muscle. It's still hard to find great tasting recipes today but with the help of the internet, it's a lot easier.

Although I have just recently stumbled upon on a great healthy recipe book for weight lifters and body builders. It's called Tasty Fat Loss and Muscle Gaining Recipes. Click here to check it out.

If you're looking for fantastic body building recipes, check out this free ebook.

Once you know what your nutritional goals are, it is a matter of putting together a menu that will give you your nutritional requirements. This means planning your menus, which can be a daunting task.

The important thing to remember about putting together your diet is to ensure your recipes and menus contain your nutritional requirements. If you don't know your goal nutritional requirements, please click on the muscle building diet link below. Remember that complete nutrition is the real key to building muscle.

Muscle Building Diet

After you've found your optimal amount of nutrients, it's a matter of putting together a menu that which are conducive to building muscle. Of course, you will have to adjust the ingredients in your body building recipes to match that of your own. Make adjustments to your recipes as you see necessary.

I suggest you eat 6 meals per day. An ideal eating schedule will look something like this:

-Breakfast
-Mid morning meal
-Lunch
-Mid afternoon meal
-Post workout meal
-Dinner

In the following pages you will find some recipes and menus for muscle building. Add your own body building recipes/healthy recipes and adjust the ingredient to match that of your own nutritional goals.

Don't be surprised if you need to make a few adjustments. You might need more/less protein, more/less carbohydrates or more/less fat. Go back and add or delete foods in your recipes so that all the totals come out correctly or come pretty close.

At first, putting together your recipes and meal plans may seem difficult but like anything else, it gets easier with practice. Remember to keep foods that produce results. You will notice changes in your body as you adjust your weight lifting diet.

You may also want to have a planning day that allows you time to plan your body building recipes, weight lifting diet and evaluate. This way, you can evaluate your current progress, make any adjustments to your weight lifting diet and decide what body building recipes/healthy recipes you are going to prepare for the following week.

After you have made the necessary adjustments, you can go do your grocery shopping and prepare your meals. I usually do all my planning and evaluating on Sunday morning when everything is quite and the grocery stores aren't packed.

Once the planning and evaluation is completed I'll go out and do my grocery shopping. In the afternoon, I'll decide what body building recipes I'm going to cook for the following days.

In the afternoon I'll cook two to three days worth of meals and store them in containers. This way, there's no excuse for eating junk food or restaurant food. Of course, this will all depend on your schedule as you may work weekends.

If you are using a food scale, make sure you measure food in it's raw or frozen form. Don't weigh food after it has been cooked. After all the food has been weighed, store it or cook it and put each meal in a separate container. Take you meals with you and remember to eat every two to three hours.

Try storing your meals in some form of container that can be easily transported.

Here are some tasty body building recipes/healthy recipes to get you started. Remember that each meal should contain roughly the same amounts of calories, protein, carbohydrates, and fat. Simply click on the link to take a look at the recipe.


Body Building Recipes

Breakfast

Crunch Granola Recipe

Healthy Breakfast Burritos Recipe

Cottage Cheese And Bagel Breakfast

French Toast And Cottage Cheese Breakfast

Lunch

Healthy Tuna Salad Sandwich Recipe

Healthy Sweet and Sour Grilled Turkey Recipe

Healthy Salmon Salad Sandwich Recipe

Healthy Lean Roast Beef Sub Sandwich Recipe

Dinner

Teriyaki Chicken Recipe

Healthy Rainbow Trout Recipe

Glazed Pork Chops Recipe

Muscle Building Steak And Potatoes Recipe

Chicken And Roasted Potatoes Recipe

Mid morning and mid afternoon meals

Healthy Granola And Yogurt Snack Recipe

Healthy Bagel And Cream Cheese Recipe

Healthy Protein Drink Recipe

Recipe For Strawberry Banana Smoothie

Healthy Cottage Cheese And Snack Recipe

Remember to adjust these body building recipes to match your optimal nutritional intake. If you don't know your optimal nutritional intake, I suggest you read over Will Brink's book, Muscle Building Nutrition. This book answers all questions about muscle building nutrition. This book will show you how to structure your optimal weight lifting diet to really pack on muscle.

Remember, be a little creative with your weight lifting diet and add some great tasting body bulding recipes.

If you're looking for more recipes and sample body building menus for 2,500, 3,500 and 4,500 calorie intake, try building muscle 101's sample menus. click here

We have more body building recipes from the links below. Please click on each link for the corresponding recipe:

Yummy Beef Stragonoff

Jordan's power packed protein meal

Jordan's power packed post workout shake

Ryan's power protein shake

David's protein peanut butter balls

Basic tuna and rice recipe for building muscle

Jon's homemade protein bar recipe

For more great tasting recipes see Supplecity.com


Do You Have A Body Building Recipe?

Do you have a killer body building recipe that you would like to share with other aspiring weight trainers? Why not share them with the readers of building muscle 101?

Now, you can easily add your healthy recipe to building muscle 101's database of recipes. Simply click on the link below and join the building muscle 101's recipe collection. Of course, you will get all the credit for the recipe with your name and website link (if you wish).