As both prep coach and adjunct professor, two of the most common questions I receive on a daily basis with regards to nutrition are:

What should I be eating?

How much should I be eating?

My responses to both of these questions:

What you eat, to a certain extent, is not as important as how much you’re eating. You can be following great dietary practices and consuming the bulk of your nutrition from lean complete protein sources, complex carbohydrate sources and consuming the correct ratios of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, but if your “overdoing” or “overconsuming” those macronutrients (as evidenced by a poor level of body composition) what good is it doing you? You can have too much of a good thing, and the concept of “more is better” should not be applied to the realm of nutrition (again to a certain extent – over the course of your lifting career you should be look…

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