25 Best Muscle Building Foods

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Sweet Potato

Easy to make and sweet to eat. Sweet potatoes are a complex carbohydrate with B vitamins. Great for a post workout or even before.
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Turkey

9 grams of protein per ounce. Low saturated  fat content. Plus, it’s a fairly cheap meat!
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Bananas

Bananas have three types of sugars. Fructose, sucrose and glucose, these sugars are prime for pre/post training. Bananas are fat and cholesterol free, extremely portable, and nutrient dense.
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Eggs

You can cook them several ways or don’t even cook them at all (which is not recommended). Eggs are inexpensive and have about 7-8 grams of protein per egg. Boiled, scrambled or pouched it doesn’t matter.
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Oatmeal

Eat a bowl for breakfast or mix it in with your post workout shake. This carb helps you power through training. Also easy to prepare and can be a cornerstone to your muscle building diet.
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Peanut Butter

Calorie dense, packed with good fats and it has protein. An essential food for growing mass and muscle. Drop the cheese-burger and make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This will help you pack on pounds needed for sports or getting stronger.
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Fish

As a low-fat high quality protein, fish is filled with important vitamins and omega-3 fatty acids. There are few things you could eat that have so much nutritional value.
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Chicken

A 4oz serving of chicken is 27 grams of protein. Has loads of amino acids, and you can make chicken several different ways (to keep it from getting boring). The chicken breast is low in fats, while the dark meat has higher fat content. The chicken is perfect for muscle building needs.
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Beef

Beef should not be excluded from this list. Beef contains iron, zinc and creatine. As mentioned earlier, Zinc is great for increasing testosterone, iron is one of the most abundant metals in your body and creatine aids in the production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP or energy). Beef is a perfect food for building muscle.
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Milk

Ever heard the acronym G.O.M.A.D? Which stands for, a gallon of milk a day, which is the old saying for hard gainers. Milk works wonders for athletes and body builders. Milk is is nutrient dense, full of protein and contains essential amino acids. Drink a glass of milk any time for muscle gains. Watch as the your muscles grow.

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Comments

  1. Greg says:

    is there a recommended time to eat any of these foods for the best results

  2. Ilya says:

    Most of these foods can be found in the old country or chinese buffet lol. Probly not the best quality tho. Great foods you posted up and I like most of them except the beans I’d say. It is very important to eat the right foods when building muscle. But also it is very imortant what to eat and when and have a workout routine. I see lot’s of peole are posting that they eat and gain weight. That could be a big mistake just to eat the right foods and not know when and how much to eat, because that can leave you with extra calories. I’ve made some blog posts talking about it if you like to read it here is the website http://www.musclebuildingnutritionandtraining.com

  3. khadar salad says:

    actually i dont eat most of them but i will start eating majority of them but some of the researchers alse believe some thing which is different from this any way thnks for this

  4. Shamnad Xtrend says:

    Thankz for info ,,verry usefull for me

  5. Rahul says:

    Usefull info. i want to loose fat from my stomach lower back n to grow muscles of my arms n have abs. please help me to do so.

  6. Dumbo Maharaj says:

    I think the best thing for muscles is human meat

  7. Malcoolm says:

    This is totally incorrect. You should read a book called “The China Study” and after that read “Forks over Knives”. You will have a crucially different point of view.

    Dairy is especially detrimental to human health.

    • M2 says:

      How about a list 25 of ways to tell if your friend is a vegan?

      1. They tell you they are vegan
      2. They constantly tell you why they are vegan
      3. They argue with you on why you should be vegan.
      4. They think they know it all.
      5. They can’t gain weight.

      Repeat 5 times. Pay ‘em back for all of times you have had to listen to them harping on about it.

  8. gifer says:

    I eat most of them, before building muscle I just get more weight as in become more fat :/

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