To be a bodybuilder you need to consume a lot of food. A massive amount of food actually. The more you eat the bigger you grow. Typically when I ate, it was always to the point where I wanted to puke but I knew that the more I ate and was able to stomach the bigger I would be. So I "ate through the pain" as I typically said to my friends who laughed at the absurd amount of food I would eat and here is an idea of one meal I'd intake a day 4-6 times a day (below). My diet usually consisted of "clean foods" high in protein, good carbs, and healthy fats however, since I wasn't in contest mode and just looking to get BIG I wasn't too concerned with the amount of unhealthy fats I was obtaining. I guess you can say I was more of in an offseason diet. But I tried to eat as healthy as possibly to maintain a somewhat low body fat percentage.
Bodybuilders are also extremists looking to get any edge they can in building muscle. And I was so dedicated that I would wake up in the middle of the night to eat so my body would have food to grow and stay in an anabolic state. So below is a video of me my first time trying to muster down 5 raw eggs to get in that extra protein. So my body wouldn't go into a catabolic state and I could remain anabolic and continue to grow. Eventually I learned that doing an egg one by one and chasing it with gatorade was an easy way for me to eat these raw fellas.
(Make sure to change quality to 1080 for better picture)
(Title taken from Kai Greene: Overkill)
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