I want to talk about the off season diet. It seems to me that too many bodybuilders look great for about 2 weeks out of the year and the rest of the time they look like crap. You know what I mean. They diet to look their best for a contest event and then pig out on Cinnabons and ice cream the rest of the year showing absolutely no restraint of the food intake.

I realize that contest diets are a bit extreme to look your best for that one day. But really do you have to look like an overweight Sumo wrestler for the other 50 weeks. (I think overweight and Sumo is redundant)

I don’t understand it. We spend gobs of hours in the gym all year to build peak, size symmetry and proportion then why would we want to cover it with 40 pounds of fat. Do you think the waist at 40” is somehow in proportion to a 46” chest? Gross. That’s just plain gross.

Sure you look huge in clothes where nobody sees the extent of that tubby tummy underneath that bulky shirt. But there is no hiding those chubby cheeks and jowls. They reveal the rotund ness of the body. And overweight bodybuilder looks no different that football lineman with his belly hanging out from under his spandex shirt. That is no compliment and I would be offended if I was mistaken for a football lineman.

Bodybuilding is about looking your best and not just for two weeks out of the year. That means carrying some off season definition by watching your diet and eating right.

You need to look 80% of your best whether you are training, shopping, swimming, and partying or dining out. It should be obvious to everyone you spend time in the gym. It should be obvious to your waiter that Crème Brule is not going to be ordered by this guy. It should be obvious to your friends that pigging out on beer and chips won’t cut it with you. Bring on the protein bars, healthy snacks because tomorrow you may be taking your shirt off..

By the way, need I mention that a crap diet affects your performance in the gym. You know what I mean. Ever eaten a pizza buffet and then hit the gym about 4 hours later. The body sweats grease and the muscle clamor “not now and not so much weight”. Why would you want to do this to yourself?

Okay I have ranted and raved long enough. You be the judge of the on season and off season bodybuilders. Do they even look like the same person? The names are not listed to reserve being offensive.

Want to know how to moderate your diet all year round....then sign up for my 10 free lessons on the home page. It will be lesson 8 in the line up.

19 Year old few days after competition

 

Same but off season bodybuilder on the right

 

 

National Bodybuilder Competitor few days after competition

 

 

Same bodybuilder in the Off season

Sweat eventually hardens to Muscle".....Scott

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