The Muscle Building Foods that Work.

THE MUSCLE BUILDING FOODS THAT WORK!

#1.) Ground beef- Ground beef isn’t as cheap as it used to be, but it’s a red meat that is cheaper than steaks! When I was trying to gain the most physical size possible I would eat ground beef 1-2x per day almost every day.

I used to use a George Foreman grill and usually just grill them at meal time and occasionally beforehand. Ground beef is full of protein and fat, both which are necessary ingredients involved in muscle growth!

#2.) Rice- the universal calorie increase! Rice is a good food to build muscle with because you can stir anything into it, it’s cheap, and it helps increase overall calories. It also changes the consistency of your food and often makes certain foods easier to eat by doing so.

I always felt that eating a stir-fry type meal was easier to slam than say, a plain piece of chicken breast. It makes it easy to just stir your food into it and carry one container with everything in it, rather than separating the foods.

As some of you may have gathered from reading past articles, I do not discount carbs when it comes to building muscle! Carbs are an essential nutrient of muscle building due to their transport effects of fluid to the muscles and anabolic effects caused by insulin release after consumption.

#3.) Oatmeal- a cheap complex carbohydrate that falls under essential “clean foods” in my book. Remember how I talked about eating everything vital to growth from essential macros first, and then eating strictly for calories? Well, oats would fall under -the first one for me.

A few bucks worth of oats can go a long ways. When I was trying to build the bulk of my foundational size, I would often eat oats several times a day. Fuck cooking them, I didn’t have time for that. I would just run them under hot water and eat them like cereal.

People always used to say ,”How can you do that? Just plain oats?” and my response would always be ,”I don’t give a fuck, I want to be big more than I want to taste flavor!”

#4) Bananas- While certainly not high in calories (about 120 calories per banana) bananas were convenient for me and could be brought places such as work or car rides. They weren’t messy, affordable, and gave me the extra carbs I needed to grow!

Therefore, because I used to eat a lot of bananas during my growing phase, I have listed them in here!

#5.) Yogurt- Yogurt sort of falls along the lines of bananas here. They’re self contained, they include some protein, and they’re convenient for when you’re on the go.

While working in a skilled labor type job, it wasn’t always realistic to sit down to a plate of food that was heated and prepared. I occasionally had to bring healthier type snacks with me. I was just eating regular yogurt and not Greek yogurt, since regular yogurt was cheaper and contained just as many, if not more calories.

I’ll never forget this one night when I was banging this stripper. I had nailed this girl so hard and for several rounds, and when I was done at about 4am all I wanted to do was eat, but all I had in my apartment were yogurts.

I can remember eating about 8 of them in a row! Good times back then…

#6.) Eggs- And not the whites either, WHOLE EGGS! I couldn’t afford to eat just the whites when I was younger and still trying to build size. I would usually eat about 4 whole eggs as part of breakfast, and when I would make my high calorie, homemade mass-gain shakes I would throw a couple in the mix!

A dozen eggs is under $1 and they can last you about 2-3 days. Eggs are a good source of protein and affordable. The key to eating eggs every single day for about 25 years straight is you have to experiment with different condiments, hahaha. I usually rotate between hot sauce, salsa, and ketchup!

#7.) Milk- Milk isn’t what it used to be now that it’s all pasteurized, but it’s liquid calories that contain protein. If size is the goal then whole milk is where it’s at, since it contains more calories and fat content, both which are needed for muscle growth!

It’s also one of the ingredients in the homemade mass shakes that are surely going to get you a hell of a lot further than those overpriced, sugar packed mass gainers the nutrition stores sell!

#8.) Peanut butter- NO, IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE NATURAL PEANUT BUTTER EITHER, just get what is cheap and on sale. You’ll be eating a lot of this for it’s fat content and calories, so why spend twice as much money for the same thing?

Remember, all the organic shit can come later on down the road once you’re actually big and can still look big after cutting up!

#9) Tuna fish- Tuna fish isn’t high in calories, but it’s cheap and contains protein. Tuna fish cans fall in the category of essential foods to include on a budget, before going for added cals. Remember, we still want the essential “clean foods” as our basis, but not be shy of adding added calories on top of them.

And simply put, carbs and fats are the fastest way to increase calories after eating the basic building blocks such as tuna cans. Just cheap store brand tuna will work right now. I have never like tuna fish, but I liked growing so I just ate it, I didn’t give a fuck!

#10.) Pizza- Oh my God, did he actually suggest eating pizza on a blog that revolves around bodybuilding and nutrition? YEP, I SURE DID!

It was honestly a high calorie food that I ate regularly during my years of building up. I didn’t eat it every day, but when I was on a tighter budget it wasn’t anything to eat a couple of those cheap Tortino’s pizzas a week (for those in other countries, these are cheap frozen pizzas sold in American grocery stores I’m referring to).

The 10 Foods I’ve listed out for you are much of the staples that I consumed to take my body from a thin and wiry 143 lbs at 5’9″, straight up to over 240 lbs of mass. These aren’t exactly the foods I’d be eating exclusively to try to lean up with, but for the goal of size and strength they worked very well for me.

I simply have no reason to lie to you all. I’m getting sick and tired of so called “experts” that completely hide the truth from people. Sometimes the term ‘clean eating’ can downright fuck you over when it comes to building muscle mass!