The Paleo Muscle Building Diet Plan

The Paleo Diet might be the best muscle building diet plan around. It changes everything, but its core philosophy is quite simple: eat and live like a caveman.

During the paleolithic era, our ancestors lived as foragers and hunters, finding protein and nutrition based on wild fruits and vegetables, seeds, nuts, and wild animals. Our ancestors got plenty of exercise, which came in short bursts with long resting periods in between — they would wait for an animal, then chase it down, attack it and haul the meat back).

These bouts of aerobic activity and strength training would not come consistently each morning before working at the office; they would occur primarily before eating, and in short, intense bursts (note the similarity to High Intensity Training).

A lot has changed in 12,000 years. Technology has given us an abundance of food that has allowed for a larger human population on the planet than ever before. Each year we invent new technologies and agricultural practices to allow for larger yields of food, even changing the genetic structure of plants and animals to suit our new production and consumption needs.

The problem is, our new diets aren’t necessarily good for us. Some nutritional experts suggest that the incorporation of such large amounts of grain into our diets has led directly to all kinds of new diseases, from serious digestive ailments such as Crohn’s disease to neurological disorders including multiple sclerosis. And many of our foods in the western world are unnaturally processed, stripping them of nutrients and sometimes adding poisonous pesticides and herbicides to the mix.

The Paleo Diet represents a reversal of all the negative effects of our leaps in technology, which have drastically changed our diets in an extremely short amount of time.

Evolutionarily speaking, the changes to our high protein diets have happened in practically no time at all, in the space of mere centuries. Compare that with the millennia that it took for our digestive systems to co-evolve with our environment, and you can begin to understand why there might be a lot of truth to the Paleo Diet’s claims, and how its abilities to help you build muscle up could only the beginning.

The first thing that a Paleo-based muscle building diet plan would change in your lifestyle, whether you’re interested in fast weight loss or building muscle, is the grain you eat. Wheat is the biggest offender and should be avoided completely, but even some supergrains like quinoa are contraindicated in the Paleo Diet. Stay tuned to Human Body Knowledge for more information about the Paleo Diet, including sample meal plans and workout routines.