Understanding the basic physiological ideas that unify diet, exercise and building muscle to maximize fat loss allows one to avoid many common “dead-end” physical predicaments. Becoming what many people consider to be a bulky mass of muscle and fat is one of these predicaments, especially common among men.
The fear of becoming “bulky” also keeps countless ladies from building valuable fat burning muscle.
First of all, there is no specific human tissue known as “bulk”. Rather, this term simply refers to visible body fat on top of existing muscle, such that the defined muscle is not visible. As such, “bulk” is more of an aesthetic physical quality or description.
When you are engaging in intense strength training or a similar strenuous exercise program you are breaking down muscle and using up valuable nutrients to the greatest degree.
Your body desperately requires valuable proteins, vitamins, minerals and nutrients to re-build and restore. If you are eating primarily naturally raised meats, fish, fruits and vegetables, then you are getting the most natural, high quality proteins and nutrients with the lowest amount of calories, relative to other foods. You will be feeding new muscle optimally, but with no extra calories to store as body fat.
If, on the other hand, you are eating primarily dairy, grains, and other non-evolutionary foods then the opposite is true. You will be starving your body of these valuable nutrients. This will be manifest in intense, deep hunger.
The only way to get more of the low proportion nutrients in these high calories foods is to eat more of those lower nutrient foods. In doing so, you will be feeding the new muscle but at the expense of adding an immense amount of additional calories. These new calories will be stored as body fat, on top of your muscle, creating the inevitable “bulky” look. Worse still, the relatively low grade nutrients from processed or otherwise non-evolutionary foods will not feed and repair your body to the same extent as the high quality proteins and nutrients in our natural foods.
Once bulky, you may decide to simply starve yourself by cutting calories, while continuing to exercise strenuously. You may even do additional exercise in the hope of burning off the extra body fat. In both cases your body will simply not be able to restore and rebuild from the strenuous exercise in which you are engaging.
You will be placing your body in an impossible situation. This, and similar predicaments could be described as a sort of “Physical Schizophrenia”. Failure to progress will be inevitable, despite all of the hard work and denial. This and similar predicaments are easily avoided by simply eating the healthy, high nutrient, and low calorie evolutionary foods described in this book.