Bodybuilding, Nutrition and Thermodynamics
Traditional approaches to nutrition have taught many generations of body builders the following facts:
• Selecting the foods that you eat is important; essentially, you become what you eat in the end.
• More fat means failure, because weight gain due to fat is never a wonderful thing.
• Counting calories works. Sometimes.
• Calories should be based on your weight loss plans or bulking up plans, and should be balanced by rigorous workout routines.
This is what traditional bodybuilding tells us. But what if we explore a bodybuilding more from a more scientific, progressive point of view? Recent studies suggest that mere calorie counting would not really alter the general composition of the body. Essentially, the body composition remains unchanged and you’re just either shedding the far around it, or building muscles around it.
If this is the truth, then what would be the more desirable direction? One desirable direction is to count calories, select foods vis-