How to Use a Healthy Gainer to Build Muscle Without Fat

A large majority of bodybuilding practitioners go through mass gain muscle in order to gain weight and muscle faster. During this training phase, it is about increasing the intake of calories, carbohydrates , proteins and fatty acids to fuel muscle mass optimally. Most of those who advise you to consume a truly high-calorie gainer (over 700 to 800 calories per daily dose) know very well that you will certainly gain more fat than muscle with this type of high-calorie concentrate. Naturally, insulin stores excess fat, not in your muscles. But then why take a gainer if it risks making us gain more fat than muscle? Is there really a healthy gainer? The answers are directly linked to your metabolism...

In reality, you can't store calories indefinitely...

The human body is such a perfect machine that it is very difficult to fool it. Indeed, starting with the idea that you can store a very high amount of calories and then expend them through exercise and post-exercise recovery depends on particularly complex but reasonable metabolic processes, never based on excess. If, for example, you reduce your calorie intake excessively, the body's own survival mechanisms will kick in and you will lose much less weight than you could have hoped. You will then gain much more weight when you resume a normal diet.

Too few calories make you lose weight up to a point but eating too much makes you fat

Conversely, if you overeat, you will store relatively little extra glycogen, but you will mostly end up storing fat, which could result in gaining a few unnecessary pounds. Here too, the same mechanism linked to the body's survival is at play. Your body will store the calories you give in anticipation of a possible future shortage. This process explains why you quickly store fat when you eat beyond your caloric and nutritional needs. Naturally, these processes are linked to our hormones because they regulate a large part of the biological mechanisms of the human body. This is the case, for example, for peptide hormones such as insulin and somatropin (growth hormone), but also for ghrelin, adiponectin, leptin, and others. This explains why you cannot store pounds of glycogen since the human body does not function this way. On the other hand, your body functions in a homeostatic manner, that is to say that it seeks homeostasis, energy balance.

High calorie gainers will only make you fat but you will gain little muscle in return.

This metabolic and organic balance is also explained by the fact that it will be very difficult for you to lose more than 500 to 600 calories after a intense strength training or Crossfit. To give you a rough comparison, let's say your body works more like a good diesel engine designed to last over time than like the V12 in a Ferrari. To this end, it is likely that you quickly deplete 70 to 90% of your muscle and liver glycogen and that at this point, both fatty acids and amino acids will be used to remake glucose and then ATP. If your body is made to move and exert itself, your metabolism has certain limitations that allow it to easily store calories.

Given that your muscles need carbohydrates (but in moderation) for energy and proteins to strengthen their muscle mass , you now understand why a high-calorie nutritional intake has no interest in gaining mass, except to generate fat gain. When you force your body to consume more calories than it can store or expend, you will only gain weight, with minimal muscle gain. Should we conclude that healthy gainers do not exist?

Big Yam is a healthy gainer that provides you with the calories, carbohydrates and proteins needed to gain muscle.

THE Big Yam Yam Nutrition is a healthy gainer that was developed on a unique nutritional quality principle rather than unnecessarily stuffing you with cheap maltodextrin like the majority of low-quality gainers on the market. In contrast, Big Yam is a healthy gainer made from sweet potato flour, a completely natural source of carbohydrates. With a medium glycemic index, sweet potato flour releases its carbohydrate energy gradually to better fuel your muscle glycogen reserves. We have combined sweet potato flour with whey isolate ( whey isolate ) of high nutritional quality. Naturally rich in essential amino acids, Big Yam is a Lean Gainer that provides you with BCAAs leucine, valine, isoleucine and L-Glutamine in high quantities.

Lean Gainer developed for clean mass gain, YAM Nutrition's Big Yam is high in calories to provide you with energy necessary for more intense workouts, while helping you recover better after weight training or cardio exercises that you practice in the gym. As you will have understood, Big Yam is not going to stuff you with sugars or maltodextrin. Of these simple sugars, we know nothing about their glycemic index, except at the risk of seriously fattening you, for little results in terms of muscle mass and strength.

Big Yam is a gainer made only from sweet potato flour and a whey protein of excellent nutritional quality. The only thing you need to gain muscle is a reasonable calorie surplus, consisting of slow-digesting carbohydrates and high-quality nutritional proteins. In addition to all these nutritional qualities, the taste of Big Yam is exceptional, no matter which flavor you take. Once you try it, you will find it difficult to take another Lean Gainer.

How to consume a healthy gainer like Big Yam to successfully gain muscle mass

Big Yam is a healthy gainer that is used like any other Lean Gainer, that is to say, it is taken between meals. With a medium caloric value but a high richness in macro and micronutrients, Big Yam contributes to the healthy release of energy during exercise. Consumed after training, it will provide you with the calories you need to quickly replenish glycogen while supplying your muscle mass with amino acids and peptides necessary for its development. Unlike the majority of high-calorie gainer powders on the sports nutrition market, Big Yam will make you gain energy then muscle, while limiting unnecessary fat gain linked to excessive calorie consumption.