Nutrition Considerations For Performance Gains

Weight loss and cutting calories tend to steal the limelight when it comes to information on how to best fuel your body for athletic success. However, not every athlete wants to lose weight. Many athletes are looking to put on weight in the form of lean muscle tissue to improve body composition and power output. Eating for gains is unique from eating for bodyweight maintenance or loss. Muscle building is an anabolic process, meaning the body is creating tissue (1). A body has more than 600 muscles, so adding to that mass requires extra calories (1, 2). Of course, if you just load up on