Cookbook with simple muscle building recipes

aliaslinden

Anyone any ideas for a great cookbook focused on healthy but easy muscle building recipes. Really love to have a resource for more recipes involving chicken one pots like chicken teriyake or jambalya, where you can make a great meal in one pot really quickly that can be divided up and frozen very easily.

boogle

I wouldn't think you'd need special recipes. Just bump up the protein content of any recipe. Obviously more meat/fish. You could also add in other protein-rich foods e.g. cottage cheese, tofu, eggs, greek yoghurt, nuts, beans and lentils.

I've often thrown a couple of cans of mixed beans/butter beans into a beef bolognese or chilli, instead of having pasta or rice.

Muscle building = Exercise

You can eat yourself lean through diet, but you can't build muscle on one without doing more.

Lift heavy things, do sprint work instead of endurance work, try making everything you train with harder by adding more weight, less time to complete it etc.

From a dietary perspective, you want to get protein (growth & repair), some carbs (cheap fuel and glycogen replacement - target post training times) and fats ("expensive fuel", essential for nutrient absorption and health issues).

This means
Loads of meat (lean & fatty)
Loads of vegetables (green is great)
And a little bit of whatever else you're interested in.

aliaslinden

Toby Aggressive Diner wrote: »

Muscle building = Exercise

You can eat yourself lean through diet, but you can't build muscle on one without doing more.

Lift heavy things, do sprint work instead of endurance work, try making everything you train with harder by adding more weight, less time to complete it etc.

From a dietary perspective, you want to get protein (growth & repair), some carbs (cheap fuel and glycogen replacement - target post training times) and fats ("expensive fuel", essential for nutrient absorption and health issues).

This means
Loads of meat (lean & fatty)
Loads of vegetables (green is great)
And a little bit of whatever else you're interested in.

Oh yeah I know that! Focusing on the exercise part of it too but just thought a cook book with my goals in mind would be handy. Healthy, quick t prepare, high protein meals.