Weight Training - Nutrition

Lifting weights is an important step in gaining muscle mass.  Without some sort of progressive overload you will not get stronger, but there are two other components to see the most from you hard work in the weight room that must be addressed if you are to see reach your full potential.  They are sleep/recovery and your nutrition.  We will take a look at sleep and recovery in future posts but this week we are going to start to take a look at nutrition.  Before we go into too much detail lets first look at what we are currently eating.  Take a minute to think back to yesterday.  For this weeks blog, I want you to list for me everything you ate and drank yesterday.  This will give a quick look into your nutritional habits.  You can break it down to breakfast, lunch, and dinner, however many of us skip one or more of those meals each day so you can list it in whatever way makes sense to you.