Would You Agree, It's 80% Diet?

[Holtol]

Trained hard most days for 15 years and never found food altered my performance that much.

[Perfect Plex]

Trained hard most days for 15 years and never found food altered my performance that much.

Whats your diet been like over them years? Have you ate want you wanted?

[Holtol]

Whats your diet been like over them years? Have you ate want you wanted?

Well, I ate lots of vegatables and fruit and meat and grains. The worst thing by far for my performance to put into my body was alcohol. You can't drink often and perform as well, I will adimit that. There was not really any other foods that would effect my performance in a bad way that I can think of. Of course you can't just eat apples and nothing else and be healthy. But honestly I never put on weight when training hard I could eat till my stomach would be about to explode and I would not put on a pound. I sometimes trained 3hrs a day though.

[BrooklynBomber]

See, its not that simple. Its not just 75/25 ratio, if the ideal body for you is not just a skeleton with a six pack then one can not go without another. Its not just "you are what you eat", its "you are what you do with what you eat".
So, if you want a strong, lean body then you cant overconcentrate on one and underperform on another.

[THE REED]

See, its not that simple. Its not just 75/25 ratio, if the ideal body for you is not just a skeleton with a six pack then one can not go without another. Its not just "you are what you eat", its "you are what you do with what you eat".
So, if you want a strong, lean body then you cant overconcentrate on one and underperform on another.

I def agree with you, but in my personal experiences... Dieting has always had a greater impact on my physique than working out, even though I do both.

Eeryone has a different body structure, metabolism etcc...

I have a 40 year old uncle who eats cheeseburgers and doesnt workout any more... Yet the dude has a 6 pack.

I mean Im 27, if I eat cheeseburgers and dont exercise Ill blow up like a helium balloon.I have to eat clean and workout to maintain/lose weight.

Anyways, for my body it was always shifting from the sweets, carbs, and deep fried crap to chicken and veggies that made the biggest difference

[Ogecca MaMa]

I don't understand?

And I don't mean that. What mean if someone trained really hard, cardio, weights etc but didn't have the right diet, chocolate, crisps fizzy drinks etc, most say they wound't get a ripped shape.

And I was asking is this true?

basicly you should eat as much as Your body needs to. let's say you train 2x per day.. 4 days in a week = 8 trainigns per week. so you should eat a lot healthy food, vegies, fruits etc.. you can eat junk but not a lot lol.

as for thread.. you wont be tough with 80% diet and rest trainings

[MOTHER DUCKER]

More like 50% genetics, 35% diet 15% training

[Uturn]

To the TS: Diet is absolutely essential when trying to accomplish your dream body. I know guys that go to the gym 5 times a week, and yet a year later - hardly any progress. Why? Because their diet is garbage, without a decent diet you're doomed.

This applies to all athletes in sports as well. Do you think they eat fast food? Hell no!

Diet comes first always. If you eat right, you'll make good progress, if you eat garbage - you aren't peaking to your potential.

It's hard to keep a good diet, admittedly. The vast majority find it hard to lay off the garbage, since fatty foods are the most delicious, and you'll find it's always 'there' in-front of you.

Diet is key for any athlete. You can train as hard as you like, but without eating the correct nutrients and foods you ain't going no where son!

Just putting things in perspective here btw.

Yours,
Casual.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

Agree 110%....

I think Arreola is prime example... I have no doubt he kills it in the gym, but its what he eats when he leaves.

This may or may not be true we don't know because we aren't there but I also think people get caught up too much in physiques.

Not everyone can look like a Klitchko, they just can't. I guarantee if Arreola trained his ass off, ate nothing broccoli he still wouldn't look like that. A lot of it has to do with genetics.

Diet is very important and I always say if your not going to work out, at least eat healthy. You can't eat like **** and work out thinking your reversing the damage done to your body.

[THE REED]

If you work your ass off in the gym, but eat junk when you leave you wont see results

On the flipside... you dont even have to work out but if you eat clean, chicken, fish, veggies etc... then you can lean out and have a nice physique..

To me eating healthy is the key... but if you combine them then you really speed up your results.