Diet For Building Muscle – Add This Food Now

If you’re looking to optimize your diet for building muscle, then you’re going to want to read every word of this important article because I’m going to share with you one of the best muscle building foods there is…

Here’s the deal when it comes to building muscle and your diet:

You need to eat a LOT!

In fact, you should strive to get at least 20 calories per pound of bodyweight. As an example, if you’re 150 pounds you need to get 3,000 calories. Make sense?

And ideally, these extra calories should come from whole food sources, with as much protein, good fats, and carbohydrates as possible…

The Old School Solution For A Muscle Building Diet

Milk baby. Good ole’ milk.

There’s an old routine to put on serious muscle size called the “20 Rep Squat Routine” and it goes a little something like this:

• Do 20 Reps of the Barbell Squat — with a weight you could “normally” only do for 10 reps (you accomplish this by taking “breathers” in between reps, but with the bar still on your shoulders… and…
• Drink a Gallon Of Milk A Day — you accomplish this by drinking a gallon of milk each day IN ADDITION to your regular 3-6 meals per day!

As you might guess, that gives you a LOT of extra calories.

Why is Milk So Great?

Protein, Carbs and Fats — in the right amounts and the correct kind. You need fat to build muscle… you need protein to build muscle… and you need carbohydrates to build muscle.

• Protein - Milk contains whey AND casein protein, giving you fast and slow digesting proteins to fuel your muscle’s regrowth and repair…
• Carbs - Milk has slowly digest carbohydrates, not simple sugars which are good for keeping your insulin levels in check…
• Fats - Milk has good fats in it, the kind that will help you build muscle…

What is WRONG with Milk?

This is the important part: you want to drink milk in as close to its natural form as possible! Which means what?

Well, today farmers do a couple of things to get their cows to produce more milk to make more profits.

• Grain fed - they feed their cows an unnatural diet of grains instead of grass, what this does is cause an inbalance in the amount of omega 6 fats VS omega 3 fats… while we need a good balance of the two, most modern people have far too much omega 6 fats (which a grain-fed diet adds to the fat of cows)…
• Growth hormones – ever wonder why 6 year old girls are having their periods and growing “big girl” boobs and butts at a young age? You see, to increase milk production farmers also put growth hormones into milk which (in simple terms) ends up being treated like the hormone estrogen in your body (jumpstarting puberty in little girls and turning you into a woman (even if you’re a man!))
• Pasteurization kills stuff – that’s actually good for you, it destroys enzymes, diminishes vitamin content, denatures fragile milk proteins, destroys vitamins C, B12 and B6, kills beneficial bacteria, promotes pathogens and is associated with allergies, increased tooth decay, colic in infants, growth problems in children, osteoporosis, arthritis, heart disease and cancer.

So What Kind Of Milk Should You Drink?

Ok, here’s the deal: consuming TOO much of ANYTHING for too long is never good for you. So I recommend when you’re really trying to build muscle, thats the only time you drink a TON of milk per day.

Next, you definitely want to go organic because you’ll be able to avoid the added growth hormones, etc that come with regular milk. Organic Valley milk is available in most every grocery store (and most grocery stores have their own brands of organic milk too).

Then, if possible you want to try to get organic milk made from grass fed cows. This is harder to do, but I managed to find some at my local “health food store” and it even came in those old school style glass bottle containers (cool!)

The absolute BEST option would be to find a local farm that will allow you to buy raw milk from them. Go to rawmilk.com to find a place in your state. I haven’t done this yet, but I’m going to try to find one and I’ll report back on the results here.

Closing Thoughts

I want to gain a lot of muscle WITHOUT gaining a lot of fat. I’m only around 135 pounds (I’m a short guy, and gaining mass was never that important to me)… so I figure with the proper amount of regular meals, my intermittent fasting schedule, and my size and calorie requirements… I only need to consume about a half gallon of organic milk (preferably grass fed, and I’ll see if I can get “raw”) for building muscle the way I want to and to put on the weight I want to put on.

That’s still an extra 1,200 calories per day so I should be all good I’ll let you know how it turns out, and I’ll even provide you with the detailed eating schedule I followed to make it happen. So make sure you consider adding milk to your diet for building muscle.