Off-Season Dieting:
When Bodybuilders Start Eating Shit

Filed Under: Bodybuilding, Food & Nutrition, Rants & Raves


We want to talk about the off season bodybuilding diet for a quick second… this is mostly geared towards serious-minded amateur bodybuilders… but it involves everyone, even if you don’t ever plan to compete.

It seems to us that too many bodybuilders look great for about 2 weeks out of the year and the rest of the time they look like crap. They diet to look their best for a contest event and then pig out on cinnabons and pizza the rest of the year… showing absolutely no restraint of the food intake.

We realize that contest diets are a bit extreme since the goal is to look your best for that one day. But really, folks… do you have to look like an overweight Sumo wrestler for the other 50 weeks.

As gym jocks, we spend gobs of hours in the gym all year to build peak size, symmetry and proportion. So why would we want to cover it with 30-40 pounds of fat in the off season?

An overweight bodybuilder looks no different than a football lineman with his big belly hanging out from under his spandex shirt.

Bodybuilding is about looking your best… not just for two weeks out of the year. That means maintaining 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, partying, or dining out. At any given day during the year, it should be obvious to everyone that you spend time in the gym. It should be obvious to your waiter that you’re not gonna even consider ordering Crème Brulee for dessert. 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 and healthy snacks because tomorrow you may be taking your shirt off.

By the way, need we remind y’all that a crap diet affects your performance in the gym? Ever eaten a pizza buffet and then hit the gym about 4 hours later? The body sweats grease and your muscles scream for mercy. Not only that, but you feel like shit!

Okay, we have ranted and raved long enough… You be the judge.

Check out the attached pics to see what we mean… these guys don’t even look like the same men!

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One Comment on “Off-Season Dieting:
When Bodybuilders Start Eating Shit”

  1. Ken Says:
    November 13th, 2008 at 10:06 pm

    Hey , chill dude!
    I know it might be hard tobelieve but there are many fans who dig the beefy look of off-season muscle…
    and who are we to dictate how and when bodybuilders should look a certain way?
    It is their lives and let them do as they may.
    KEN