The Diet When Running A Steroid Cycle

“You are what you eat” is a statement that remains available even when you are on steroids. Many bodybuilders who use body performance enhancers drugs make the mistake to overlook the importance of healthy nutrition while cycling. If you eat junk, then you get fat, and if you eat clean you get lean.

This is the way things work when you are or not on steroids. AAS doesn’t do miracles, they just accelerate the muscle growth process, but you will have to ensure the body with all nutrients required for this.

Following the right diet when taking steroids will help you to get the most from that cycle. Either you are running a cycle for bulking or for cutting, adjusting the what you eat to these purposes will make to feel great when getting to the finish. Since you manage to get the best from this cycle.

Looking on the forums for opinions about right dieting, you will see that many of bodybuilders tell you that there is no a big difference in nutrition routine when are on steroids and off. You are advised to continue the same rich diet in proteins, carbs, and fats as you did in normal days.

You will not be wrong if go on the same diet when you are on steroids. The most important is to give your body nutrients in a sufficient amount. But if you want to take maximum advantages from cycle you are about to run, then a deeper look on how to eat to better assist your body with this task is what you need to do.

Depending on your goal-bulking or cutting-  dietary are slightly changed. However, the bricks that build a proper alimentation regimen consists of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. And the order of mentioning corresponds to their importance.

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Diet When Running a Bulking Cycle:

When taking steroids to increase muscle mass you have to keep a close eye on body fat. Since gaining weight always comes hand in hand with adding fat, you need to strictly calculate your daily calorie needs and keep fat percentage under control. Be aware the more carbs and fats you eat, the more fat you will gain.

If you are a leaner person and want to get into a bulking cycle than your diet should contain more calories compared to other body types. That’s why all nutrition recommendations have to adapt to each individual characteristics.

Proteins are the most important factors that make the muscles grow and recover. Our bodies absorb protein from food, breaks it down into amino acids and take them to the muscles cells through blood. Reaching a positive nitrogen level makes the muscles cell to better absorb proteins.

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Meat, fish, eggs, milk products are the best sources of protein. You have to use one of these sources on each meal throughout the whole day.

The daily dosage of protein for those who look to add weight should be about 1.5-2 gram of protein for each pound. Thereby, if you have 200 pounds than your minimal protein daily intake should be 300 gr of proteins.

Hardgainers can raise the portion to about 400 gr of protein carefully split throughout all day. One gram of protein has 4 calories, that’s is why bodybuilders will have a 1200 kcal each day as proteins. It is very important to keep track of this numbers when you set your daily calories intake.

Carbohydrates are what you need to add more weight. Since carbs ensure your body with energy, you will have to keep their level quite high to feel able to train and be full of energy all the day. Also, they will keep your blood sugar level at a constant rate, and will not let your body to use proteins for energy.

Rice, oats, whole wheat bread, noodles, and vegetables are great sources of carbohydrates. You have to consume carbs three times a day, the morning before and after a workout. The carbs daily intake have to consist of 800-900g. Since each g of carbs has 4 calories, daily calorie intake of carbs will be more than 3000 kcal.

Fats included in your diet have to omit saturated ones. Omega-3 and Omega-6 are great sources of fat you need and they are reached in fish. During bulking you have to eat 100g of fats daily. Every gram of fish has 9 kcal, this means that from your daily calorie intake 900 kcal are ensured by fats.

The Diet of a Bodybuilder Who bulks up Has to Look this Way:

-30% of proteins;

-50% of carbs;

-20% of fats.

So, a 4000-5300 daily calorie intake is what a bulking up person needs. This means at least 300 g of proteins (1200 kcal), 800 g of carbs (3200 kcal) and 100 g of fats (900 kcal). The quantity can be slowly changed depending on your own body characteristics.

Diet For Cutting Steroid Cycle:

If you want to get shredded you will have to burn fat. And this means that you will have to decrease daily calorie intake. Proteins. The protein consumes have to be quite high since you need to keep your lean muscle mass.

Carbs. During cutting cycle, carbs have to take only in some very special moments. They are required when the catabolic process occurs( to minimize it), for energy and for replenishing glycogen resources. Since you try to get rid of extra fat, you do not need many carbs in your diet.

Take them in the morning when body triggers the catabolic process, before the workout for getting energy and after it to replenish glycogen level. Fats are very important since they participate in the fat burning process. As in case of bulking diet, try to choose unsaturated sources of fats.

In Case of Cutting Diet, the Percentage of Proteins, Carbs, and Fats looks like This:

-50 % of protein;

-25% of carbs;

-25% of fats.

During cutting cycle, daily calorie intake is much lower than in case of bulking, around 2000-2500 kcal. Most of the calories are ensured by proteins. Regardless you are bulking or cutting is very important to schedule meals throughout the whole day.

Set 5-6 meals per day in small doses and stick to them wherever you are and whatever you do. You do not have to wait to be hungry to eat. Get your body accustomed to a diet routine and thus ensuring it with all nutrients it needs for bulking or cutting.

No alcohol while dieting. Instead drink as more water as you can, minimum 2 liters per day. It will keep you hydrated and your kidney safe from high amounts of protein you will ingest.

As you see, based on your goal-cutting or bulking -the percentage of proteins, carbs, and fats you take are changed as well as the daily calorie intake. So, for bulking you need to follow a 4500 calories intake per day. Fifty percent of them are carbs, 30% proteins, and other 20 percentage fats.

While cutting, daily calorie intake is reduced at the half, about 2500 kcal. From them 50 % are proteins and other 25%/25% are carbs and fats.

All these numbers are tentative since we are all different and the way our bodies work differently too. You will have to adjust these recommendations to your own needs and stop to the formula that works best for you.