Old School Bodybuilding Secrets From The Iron Guru Vince Gironda

🏋️‍♂️ Old School Bodybuilding Secrets From The Iron Guru That Still Work Today

✅ Fact Checked 📚 Golden Age Wisdom ⚡ Actionable Secrets 🥩 Nutrition Backed 🏋️ Classic Training

🔥 Why Old School Still Works

💡 A wise soul once said “there’s no school like the old school” — and to date, it hasn’t been disproved. If you’re actively involved in bodybuilding, there’s no doubt that you’ve been inundated with information coming from every angle, and sadly, much of it just incoherent bro-science.

⏳ So what’s a guy to do if he desires true mass? Trial and error is good, but when there are so many trials to carry out, time becomes the enemy!

🏆 Introducing Vince Gironda: The Iron Guru

Introducing Vince Gironda: The Iron Guru
The one name associated with revolutionizing thinking in bodybuilding was the man known as the Iron Guru- Vince Gironda. He believed in creating the illusion of mass over sheer size, opting to accentuate wide shoulders and narrow waists, highly sought after by male bodybuilders. Likewise, in typical Vince’s unorthodox fashion, he advised against use of the back squat and flat bench press, since they bolstered gluteal and deltoid development respectively, over what you believed you were training.

🥩 The Hormone Precursor Diet

🥗 Nutrition Focused 💪 Muscle Gain ⚡ High Calorie Support 🥤 Classic Shake ✅ Old School Proven

The Hormone Precursor Diet
The old school legend Vince Gironda was such a huge proponent in nutrition that he opined diet will determine 85% of your success as a bodybuilder. Many beginners, and even intermediate athletes look at workouts as the magic bullet in sculpting a marvelous body, when nutrition actually is the fix.

Vince also believed in following lower carb, higher fat and protein diets and loved some good steak. Today’s research has confirmed that fats are not as bad as the media and conventional medicine would have you believe, as many persons following lower carb or ketogenic style diets are in great health.

The hormone precursor diet, as the name should indicate, was one which helped supply your body with the nutrients (precursors) necessary to facilitate optimal production of hormones, specifically anabolic ones. This was one of Vince Gironda’s more popular diet plans.

The hormone precursor shake is great for hard gainers, or persons training for any amount of time without noticeable gains in muscle mass, as when without a doubt caloric intake is lacking.

🥤 This is the original shake recipe:

• 12oz half and half (milk consisting of light and heavy cream)
• 12 raw eggs
• 1/3 cup quality milk-and-egg protein powder
• 1 banana

🥚 The Anabolic Power Of Raw Eggs

The Anabolic Power Of Raw Eggs
If you listen to a word of today’s big pharma funded studies, you will likely have heard that eating more than 2 eggs per day is the fast track to death. However, these sentiments are not shared by true natural bodybuilders or the iron guru Vince himself. Eggs have higher biological nutritional values than any other food, including meat and even the worshipped glandular liver capsules.

Being loaded with protein and cholesterol, eggs are a true natural steroid which promotes optimal testosterone synthesis and fuel for muscle repair. What’s more, if you’re still not convinced that eggs are a godsend, how about a study showing that higher than average egg consumption and cholesterol intake was not associated with an increased incidence of heart disease.

🥩 Desiccated Liver For Muscle Recovery

Desiccated Liver For Muscle Recovery
Have you ever consumed liver? Back in the day, almost every single serious bodybuilder did. Nowadays, plain chicken seems to rule the coop, but is liver truly superior?

Yes it is. For one, liver is considered as the most nutritionally dense food on the planet when compared to other foods on a per gram basis. This is why Vince almost always recommended liver supplements be taken, between meals to maintain a positive nitrogen balance.

It’s amazing how much of a difference supplementation with plain old liver tablets can make, instead of endless trial and error attempts with unproven and expensive supplements made today.

🍽️ The Big Weight Gaining “Secret”

The Big Weight Gaining “Secret”
The real secret to gaining muscle mass and overall weight is to eat more food. It’s that simple. While three solid meals a day is a good start, it is even better to make it 6 smaller meals, spread out ever 2-3 hours to help supply a never ending stream of aminos, calories and nutrients and prevent hunger from ever occurring.

Have a look at Vince’s old school weight gaining diet plan; he was a big advocate of supplements for accelerating progress and helping reset the body from years of poor eating, as well as a high fat intake.

Having a hard time keeping track of your calories? You may be training old school, but that doesn’t mean you’re living under a rock. Use a fitness tracking app such as Lose It, or MyFitnessPal to nail those macros and calories each day.

🛒 Choosing Your Staples

Choosing Your Staples
Realistically, you may not enjoy eating the foods Vince included in his weight gaining diet, so you may choose to make some substitutions. But for the large part, your diet should consist of these:

• 🥚 Eggs – the staple of your weight gaining diet, cheap and loaded with hormone precursors and nutrients.
• 🥛 Heavy Cream – delivering a decent 50 calories per tablespoon serving, this dairy-based product is a useful addition to whole milk for increasing caloric intake and saturated fat in your diet.
• 🥥 Coconut Milk – loaded with saturated fats (super useful medium chain triglycerides) that can help you hit your macro requirements and promote testosterone synthesis. Especially useful if on a ketogenic diet, as MCTs are readily converted to ketone compounds.
• 🧀 Cheese – good old cheddar stands heads and shoulders above the others thanks to its saturated fat content, and high levels of protein. Excellent to use whether trying to gain weight or cut, as the fat will keep hormone synthesis turned up.
• 🥓 Bacon – high in saturated fat and protein.
• 🍫 Dark Chocolate – lower in sugar than milk chocolate, while containing decent levels of saturated fat. Makes a decent snack on a weight gaining diet. Chocolate also contains Epicatechin which is a known follistatin inhibitor (increasing muscle growth).
• 🍠 Sweet Potatoes – high in fiber and slow digesting carbs, makes the perfect choice for your carb meals.
• 🥥 Coconut Oil – rich in MCTs to boost caloric intake and help burn more fat.
• 🥑 Avocados – rich in unsaturated fats, but still extremely beneficial for heart health and healthy bulking.
• 🥛 Raw Milk
• 🥩 Grass-fed Beef – last but not least is good old beef. Loaded with zinc, saturated fat and protein it forms part of the bodybuilding dynasty of foods.

🔚 Wrapping Up

Wrapping Up
The number one cardinal sin of weight gaining is not consuming enough calories. Fat is not the enemy. If you struggle with gaining lots of fat when bulking on carbs, your body type might be more suitable for a higher fat intake. Increase your intake while simultaneously reducing carbs and it can help you gain large amounts of fat free muscle, so when cutting time comes around it’s an easy task.

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