| By themselves high fibre foods and water won't | | | | enthusiasts and body builders, although we drink a |
| make any difference to your weight training and | | | | ton of water during our workouts, too many of |
| muscle building program. You must eat the right | | | | us neglect to hydrate our bodies at all other times |
| amount of fibre per day, but consuming heaps of | | | | of the day. Many people just don't drink enough |
| fibre on its own won't put you on an Olympian | | | | water, full stop. |
| stage with the rest of the muscle monsters, but | | | | You must stay hydrated, if you want to build |
| it will help you to process the foods you do eat. | | | | quality muscle mass - period. Keeping your body |
| The digestive systems of pro body builders and | | | | fuelled with water pumps your muscles full of |
| hard gainers on mass diets often have trouble | | | | fluids, increasing your strength, your performance |
| handling all the additional calories. And this is where | | | | and ultimately your progress (ie, getting huge!) |
| fibre is key in your diet. Fibre can help you get | | | | Consuming the correct amount of water each |
| the most out of your nutrition program. | | | | day will also assist your digestive system to |
| Vegetables like beans, greens, cabbage and beans, | | | | process food. As a 'gym rat', you should be |
| or oatmeal and brown rice are all high in fibre, and | | | | drinking at least 4 litres of water a day. In addition |
| they're good sources of complex carbohydrates. | | | | to water itself, other fluids that help keep your |
| Including these foods at most meal, but not | | | | body hydrated are green tea, sports drinks, milk |
| before and after workouts, will help you gain | | | | and sparkling water. |
| muscle mass. As a general rule, try to eat five or | | | | So size up your supplement and nutrition regime, |
| more servings of vegetables every day. Here are | | | | this is the way to achieving great results from |
| a few which you should be eating to help your | | | | your efforts in the gym. Supplementation is also a |
| digestive system - broccoli, spinach, carrots and | | | | mystery to many newbie hard gainers and a lot |
| asparagus. You should be able to easily consume | | | | of guys make one or two mistakes when it |
| two or three servings with a meal. | | | | comes to supplementing. They either over rely on |
| And to complement the fibre you need to | | | | supplements, thinking they don't need to eat |
| consume each day, you must hydrate your | | | | quality foods because they are taking in |
| system properly. Most people are usually in a | | | | supplements as well or they under rely on |
| general state of moderate dehydration, because | | | | supplements - or don't use them at all. Avoid |
| they simply do not know that our bodies require | | | | ether error and you'll make great progress in your |
| a certain amount of water daily, just to live | | | | muscle building program. |
| healthily. And even if we as weight training | | | | |