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2109: What to Do When You’ve Plateaued, Why Bulking Can Help You Look Better, Splitting up Maps Programs Into Shorter Workouts & More (Listener Live Coaching)

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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The Effects of Low Carbohydrate Diet on Bodybuilding

If you go low carb, low carb sucks water and sodium out of your body. You need more sodium on a low carb diet than you do on the same calorie diet with higher carbs fact. So yes, that can definitely happen to the short term, but also the RDA for sodium is based off of an unhealthy population. People who are active exercise who are healthy need more sodium. The RDA for Sodium is too low for athletes and fit people and healthy people. It's too low for most of us, fact. Fit healthy people who you're probably gonna perform better and feel better by eating more sodium than what is considered the recommended dose.

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