Cheese and pizza in a bodybuilder's diet.

If you take a hundred people (both women and men), then more than half of them started doing fitness or bodybuilding due to weight problems (both underweight and overweight). Some began to stubbornly lose weight, count the calorie content of foods and not get off cardio equipment, others began to eat intensely and try to lift as much weight as possible... As a result, few of the group of a hundred people achieve the desired result. What are the typical mistakes?

Any person involved in active sports must learn two truths - proper, healthy nutrition and rational training.

Sports and nutrition.

As for training, here you need to clearly understand what you want to achieve: beautiful relief or big muscles, from here the conclusion can be drawn whether you need the so-called “drying” or not. Drying is a reduction in the amount of carbohydrates to fifty grams per day. In other words, you eat the same as in a normal period of life (but eat correctly): vegetables, boiled, stewed meat, fish, fruits, cereals, etc., but make sure that the figure for carbohydrate consumption per day does not exceed turning fifty. “Drying” usually lasts from a month to three. During this period, you will need to slightly rearrange your workouts so as not to overload the body (carbohydrates are fuel, which should be enough for both work/study and sports). Don't lift weights that are too heavy for you and don't warm up on cardio equipment before strength training. If you do an exercise on your legs, do squats, on your chest, do push-ups, etc. (by the way, such a warm-up should always be done, not only during “drying”).

If you do not need to lose subcutaneous fat, then rearrange your diet so that your body receives all the necessary vitamins and minerals from the foods you eat. To do this, you don’t have to give up various kinds of delicacies, you just need to look at them “under a magnifying glass” for calorie content.

Let's take everyone's favorite food: pizza. Everyone is accustomed to the fact that pizza is a fairly high-calorie and absolutely useless dish. But this is far from true. All the calorie content of pizza is contained in its flatbread, which in Russia is prepared from premium wheat flour. However, if you replace it with wholemeal flour, half the calories are immediately subtracted from your food. Next is the filling. We choose only high-quality and healthy products: tomatoes, olives, basil and, of course, an essential ingredient in any type of pizza - cheese. Have you ever wondered how much benefit there is in this product?

The usefulness of cheese and comparison of its varieties.

The main beneficial substances contained in cheeses are phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, and B vitamins. And if you look at the general composition of cheese, you can conclude that this is simply a necessary food product for any athlete. One hundred grams of cheese contains up to seven hundred milligrams of mineral salts and twenty percent protein (without which, I want to remind you, muscles cannot grow). At the moment, we know a huge number of cheeses, different in taste, smell and shape. Each person can easily choose something for themselves: those who are gaining weight will choose high-calorie cheeses, and those who want to lose a few kilograms will give preference to low-calorie varieties.

Each variety differs from the other in some beneficial properties. For example, blue cheese has a positive effect on intestinal function, and Gouda, Epoisse and Emmental cheeses are superior to their “brothers” in terms of calcium content. Tofu cheese boasts high protein and low fat content. The most famous Swiss and Dutch cheeses help prevent tooth decay and similar oral problems. And for those who especially watch their figure, there are Adyghe cheeses with low fat content.

As you can see, a bodybuilder's food does not have to be strict, restrained and tasteless. With the right approach, sometimes a bodybuilder can treat himself to all the delights of ordinary life, and especially to such a tasty and beloved dish as pizza...