Optimizing Performance

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses how understanding the effects of dietary changes is important from nutritional, health, chemical and performance standpoints. The paper discusses how bodybuilders might mistakenly believe that all one needs is more protein, since protein increases muscle mass. The paper explains that carbohydrates provide the energy that is critical to the support of the body's growth processes and explains why the body also needs fats. The paper describes the dangers and side effects associated with steroid usage. The paper shows how unfortunately, most bodybuilders make these dietary and chemical modifications without the thought of long-term sustainability; too many are looking for the quick-fix.

From the Paper:

"Knowing how important that protein is to increasing muscle mass, some bodybuilders might mistakenly come to the conclusion that all one needs is more protein. This erroneous belief, coupled with the current anti-carb craze, makes it difficult to assert the importance of carbohydrate intake. Nonetheless, carbohydrate intake has a very real place in the diet of the competing bodybuilder with very real consequences for any regimen. Part of what has given carbohydrates a bad name for bodybuilders is the fact that increasing the level of carbohydrates has the effect of boosting the body's levels of the hormone insulin."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Aceto, C. (2006, January). Carb conundrum: too many carbohydrates will make you fat, too few will stunt your growth--here's how to manage your body's carb-storage ability for maximum results. Flex, 23(11), pp. 190-193.
• Aceto, C. (2005, October). Evolution of fat loss: there's more to reducing bodyfat than just cutting calorie intake. Flex, 23(8), pp. 130-133.
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