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Woman measuring waist, emphasizing the importance of diet in a muscle building diet.

The Importance of Diet for Muscle Gains

You’re wasting your time lifting if you’re not eating right, too. 

Growing up, every child gets told to eat food they have no interest in eating; in my house, it was always spinach—yuck. When I’d ask my mother why I had to eat the mushy, green gunk, she usually justified the demand in a way that most parents do. “If you eat your spinach, you’ll grow up to be big and strong like Popeye the Sailor,” she’d say to me before I took my first bite. 

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