Four Methods For The Perfect Body

If you're reading this, the chances are that you're seriously thinking about the look and shape of your body and wanting to make some radical changes. It's definitely not easy, though and everyone goes through many times when they wonder if it's all worth while. If you want to succeed you'll need to concentrate your efforts on four elements: diet, training technique, training frequency and your sleeping pattern.

There's so much material written in books and on the internet and by joining a club you'll pick up lots of tips, but, as a taster, we'll chat about changes that you'll need to make in your diet. Out will go any 'junk' food that you may consume now and in its place will come quality proteins and complex carbohydrates and lots of them. If you're looking to get really big then you should be consuming up to two grams of protein and two and a half grams of complex carbohydrates per pound of body weight. That's a huge amount and although shakes will help you, you'll still find it a discipline as you'll need six to seven meals a day and find that you're taking around five thousand calories. Most people start with half the amount of grams of protein and carbs per pound of body weight to help them with the transition. One of the key things is to eat small and often as your body will stop storing fat because it will know that it's going to be fed soon. On the one hand this means that you won't eat rubbish because you'll always be full, but on the other, it means that you'll have to take time to think carefully about what you'll eat.

You'll need to work out how many calories you'll need and this will be done by calculating just how much energy you use in a day and then working out how many calories you'll need to take to develop your body. This is a complicated procedure and will take time but is worth persevering with. This isn't the right place to discuss the details, but this is a key element in finding the right balance between food and exercise in order to have maximum growth that is lean muscle mass and not fat. There are many machines at health clubs that can measure your body fat and it's worth testing this every couple of weeks to make sure that you're doing the right thing.

Be careful about the supplements that you take. Whey isolate proteins are very much the 'supplement of the moment', but you shouldn't just rely on these as they don't contain the amino acids that will help your body repair and mend itself. Again, this is a huge topic in its own right and one that you'll either need to read up about or be advised by a professional.

Take time between you training sessions to allow your muscles to rest and grow. Continual training is one of the worst things that you can do and is a mistake that people new to training tend to make. If you aim for two sessions on one muscle and then one off it will mean that each group of muscles is exercised five out of every seven days.

Written by Jerry Parkson, the webmaster and editor of "Pure Bodybuilding" www.purebodybuilding.com a resource for bodybuilding information on the Internet. For more information following this article please pay a visit.