Shredded West African Men Prove You Don’t Need Protein Supplements

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This kind of muscle is insane.

When it comes to growing muscle there are many different schools of thought on the subject. Many bodybuilders believe that you have to follow a strict diet plan in order to grow your muscle and really that’s not wrong. But some bodybuilders have a tendency to over compensate with the amount of supplements they take, thinking that protein powder is the end all be all in terms of growing muscle. Of course protein is essential to growing muscle, but the amounts in which many people consume the nutrient is a bit alarming.

Before you choose to lambast these statements consider the fact that old school bodybuilders, strongmen, and weightlifters didn’t rely on the kind of diet programs that are often popularized today. There was no talk of ketogenic diets or going paleo or tracking macronutrition. Though all of these concepts can be essential to a bodybuilder’s progression, for strength athletes of the past such ideologies were never given much thought. You had to eat foods that would fuel your body in sensible portions and made sure to train your ass off to see the results you craved.

Another notion that many bodybuilders have popularized is the idea that the only way to grow massive muscle, get shredded, and jacked is by weightlifting. But the more research we do into the subject the more we’re finding out that bodyweight movements can also be beneficial to building a powerful and well muscled physique.

Just take a look at Alseny and Sekou, two West African circus performers with tremendous physiques f their own. They neither utilized supplementation nor weight training to build their physiques, yet both sport powerful and impressive frames that would make any aspiring bodybuilder proud. Take a look at how these two men were able to cultivate such shredded and well muscled physiques.

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