GOING BEYOND “CLEAN EATING”

GOING BEYOND “CLEAN EATING”

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE NUTRITION


There’s more to life than training, but training is what puts more in your life.

— BROOKS KUBIK


I won’t bother repeating a cliché about how important nutrition is when it comes to building muscle and losing fat.

Proper nutrition boils down to just two things:

1. Supplying your body with the nutrients needed to efficiently recover from your workouts.

2. Manipulating your energy intake to lose, maintain, or gain weight as desired.

It’s that simple. When you know how to accomplish these two targets, you can change your body composition with ease while also being incredibly flexible with your diet.

You can eat plenty of carbohydrates and do great (in fact I’m going to recommend this). You can eat grains and even sugar every day and get shredded (gasp!). You can eat on just about any schedule you like. You can eat large or small meals. The list goes on.

What you can’t do, however, is supply your body with inadequate nutrients or get the energy balance wrong for your goals. Do either of those things, and you’ll flounder no matter what else you do.