Advanced Dieting for Strength Training 

For most beginning weight lifters, keeping your diet simple is ideal. Eat enough good food so that you adequately recover between each workout.

As you get more advanced in your training, you can start doing things with your diet to mitigate (not eliminate, remember, that’s impossible) fat increases while trying to get bigger or mitigate muscle loss while trying to shed fat.

These types of diets require you to meticulously count your calories and macros and adjust things on a weekly or even daily basis depending on how your body responds to your diet. It’s a tedious affair that sucks up a lot of mental bandwidth and makes you look like a crazy person when you weigh every piece of food so you can enter it into MyFitnessPal (I speak from experience).

That sort of thing can wait a few months if you’re a rank beginner. Put on that muscle mass and get strong (AF!). It will reap dividends for you later on when you decide to get beach body ready.

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