If you want to look good it will benefit you to avoid a mass gaining diet and stay lean for an attractive body, rather than following the bulking up approach preached by bodybuilders.
The tired notion of gaining mass. Who wants mass!?
You see the truth is that when it comes to looking good, mass really doesn’t matter. You won’t look better because you are bigger. In fact even bodybuilders know this. They might spend most of their time eating big and lifting big, but when contest time rolls around they diet off that bulk they have gained in order to get leaner and actually be able to see the muscles hidden underneath the fat.
Bodybuilders reason for doing this is the never-ending quest to be bigger driven by their idea that bigger is better. And when they have dieted off all the excess bulk they will be happy with a gain of even just a few pounds of muscle. Is that a worthwhile return for spending most of your life looking like an overweight and out of shape guy? You’d have to ask them. But if you want an attractive body, no need to go down that route. Here are some very good reasons to avoid a mass gaining diet:
1) You’ll be healthier
Carrying around a load of excess bulk puts unnecessary strain on your body. Your joints have to cope with the excess weight and your organs have to bear the cost of running the bigger version of you. It’s a heavy load to bear. Literally.
2) You’ll be more athletic
A leaner you is a more vibrant vital you. Bulking up usually means you aren’t going to feel as good or as capable. Isn’t that what health and fitness is supposed to be about?
3) Your ego will thank you
Facing an overweight person everyday in the mirror is probably not going to do a lot for your confidence. The better you look the better you’ll feel and a mass gaining diet is only going to make you look (and feel worse). Don’t waste your life being out of shape on purpose!
4) You develop and reinforce habits that actually serve you staying lean for life
A mass gaining diet will have you develop and reinforce the habits of an overweight person who eats too much. When you decide to get in shape you will have to undo all of these habits, and that can be hard work. Just look around at the size of the diet industry!
5) You’ll be richer
Save your money, why pay for the privilege of being overweight?
Studies have shown that men overestimate what their ideal level of muscular weight would be by some 30lbs!!
That’s years of training and diet; blood sweat, and of course burgers all for the sake of heading in the wrong direction.
If you want the truth about an attractive male body, just ask a woman! Or look around. It won’t take long
Notice the images of success; Hollywood stars, catwalk models, underwear bodies; it’s all about the lean and toned look. Mass is really a sideshow that bizarrely just happens to makes up the mass of information about getting in shape!
In fact since time immemorial the lean toned look has been the symbol of beauty, just look at classical artwork and sculpture. I’ts safe to say that bulk was just a blip, and the good news is it looks like it’s over now. Don’t be left behind.
Focus on getting and staying lean and adding the right amount of muscle in the right way, and you’ll be well on your way to an attractive body.
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