10 “Stupid” Things Bodybuilders Do to Mess Up Their Eating Habits
Number One: Stupid Order of Priorities

It doesn’t matter how effectively, efficiently, and consistently you train in the gym. If you don’t back up what you do there with sound nutritional practices, your results will be severely compromised. The way you eat will either make you or break you.

Avoid these common mistakes and start gaining control over your eating habits. Overcome these challenges and start packing-on muscle and dumping body fat. Follow these solutions and begin taking your physique to the next level.

By Skip La Cour
5x NPC Team Universe Champion

Some bodybuilders sure do make some stupid mistakes when it comes to their eating habits!

Okay. I admit that “stupid” might be a little too harsh of a word to describe some of the most common eating challenges many bodybuilders face—but I bet it got your attention, didn’t it?

Oftentimes, the mistakes we make when it comes to nutrition are simply the results of bad information. That bad information leads to compromised results. Compromised results lead to frustration and overwhelm. It’s very difficult to make gains and enjoy the process when you are confused and overwhelmed, isn’t it?

In order to create a profound impact to help you get the results you really want, I’ll use the word stupid to describe these nutritional stumbling blocks. Hopefully, I’ll make enough of an impression upon you and motivate you to make the necessary changes.

Don’t just scan the following pages and hope that you’re not doing anything I consider stupid. Read this article carefully and discover these simple and easy-to-follow eating tips that will launch your development into a new level of growth.

This equation will take you from the physique that you are settling for today to the amazing one you are determined to earn in the future:

Awareness + Effective Strategies + Commitment = Results

I want to first make you aware of what you are currently doing. How can you possibly make the improvements you want if you don’t know where your efforts are being compromised? You can’t. Besides, many of the ineffective strategies you’ve been taught have been passed along from bodybuilder to bodybuilder; from training partner to training partner; and even from internet message board to internet message board—all of whose originators had the best intentions when they offered their advice. If you want to make improvements, you must be aware.

When you start using more effective eating strategies, you’ll make the best use of your time, energy, and effort.

If you are on a regular training and eating program, then you are probably already committed to becoming the very best bodybuilder you can be. Am I right? Making the commitment to follow the effective strategies outlined is a critical component of this equation. I want you to channel that energy while using winning solutions and adopting an empowering mindset. I’ll offer effective nutritional and mental strategies in this article that will produce results.

In short:

When you create awareness of what’s currently taking you off track, employ more effective eating strategies, and use the commitment you already have, you’ll give yourself the very best chance to proven improved results.

Here are what I have found to be the common mistakes many bodybuilders make when it comes to their eating habits:

1. Stupid Order of Priorities

You’ll witness this problem when bodybuilders put almost all of their focus and effort into the way they train in the gym—and very little on the way they eat.

Here’s the challenge:

“I don’t know why I’m not growing. I train harder than everyone else in my gym. No one works harder than me. Ask anyone! It’s frustrating to see people who don’t train nearly as hard as I do build more muscular and leaner bodies than mine!”

Do you see people who train like animals in the gym—but their physiques simply don’t reflect their efforts the way they should?

When it comes to weight training, they have learned and applied all of the most effective training programs, theories in exercise execution, and repetition range. They even know what the best exercise equipment is and why.

But when it comes to nutrition, they openly admit that they don’t know as much as they should. They’ll honestly reveal that they don’t even follow through with what they do know. For whatever reasons, they don’t mind being deficient in this critical component of the physique-enhancing process. Is it because they assume they can make up for poor eating habits with superhuman training efforts in the gym? If so, that’s an incorrect assumption.

If you want to produce high-quality muscle and maintain lower body fat levels from the time and effort you invest in training, you must feed yourself properly. Your nutritional habits—not how you train in the gym—have the greatest impact on the development of your physique. Many experts feel the way you eat accounts for as much as an astonishing 80 percent of the way you look. From my experiences, this figure is surprising accurate. If you want an impressive muscular body, you are going to have to pay close attention to what you are eating.

In fact, if I was faced with the dilemma of choosing between training or eating properly as my only vehicle to look and feel my very best, I would choose to eat properly. Sound nutrition is that important to your bodybuilding efforts. A heavy emphasis needs to be placed on studying winning nutritional strategies and executing those strategies on a consistent basis.

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