Diet or workout more important?

[MMA Max]

Diet

[andys_trim]

Originally Posted by bamazav

It all depends on your goals. If you are trying to lose, I would say diet becomes much more important. It is important to have some sort of plan, as most folks tend to over estimate the cals they eat. If you are gaining, there is more room to play and diet exists more as part of the process. To gain muscle you have to eat big and lift big. To lose and keep muscle you have to eat less and lift big. I personally find the latter a lot harder to manage.

This exactly ^^

[Rich Knapp]

80% of building a good body is nutrition.

[Kyle Aaron]

Originally Posted by plap0

Whats more important diet or workout?

Which is more important to your being able to walk, your left leg or your right leg?

[Abaddon]

^have to rep that comment.

[Nat60s]

For me, exercise is important.

[dmaipa]

Diet is essential. That's what I found

[MonsterMike]

YouTube - MR. OLYMPIA - JAY CUTLER - INTERVIEW - LOCAL TV 9-21-10 - VOB

YouTube - MR. OLYMPIA - JAY CUTLER - INTERVIEW - LOCAL TV 9-21-10 - VOB

Watch this....the Champ himself saying how important diet is.

[BendtheBar]

A great diet with poor training yields nothing.
A great diet with great training yields great results.
An average diet (by bodybuilding standards) with great training yields very good results. (As long as the calories and protein are there)

I have never needed some super-clean, ultra micro-managed eating plan to gain. I just made sure I ate enough and got in my protein. I haven't counted any macros in 24 years.

Now before one of the snappy young chaps chimes in with some "Hey dude you're old and weigh 250, and I am young and ripped", I will remind them that I was under 200 for most of my life and used by un-OCD approach.

[BendtheBar]

Just to clarify the Cutler video, he was talking about a cutting diet and getting into "tip top condition" as Jay put it.