What is Bodybuilding?
Bodybuilding is the use of resistance to control and develop one's musculature An individual who engages in this activity is referred to as a bodybuilder. In competitive amateur and professional bodybuilding, bodybuilders appear in lineups doing specified poses, and later perform individual posing routines, for a panel of judges who rank competitors based on criteria such as symmetry, muscularity and conditioning. Dieting plays a role of equal, if not greater, significance than physical training for bodybuilding. 

Origins
-Ancient Greece with the idea of improving in sports
-Little progression until the late 1800s with fitness and strongman culture
-bodybuilding competitions come into existence in The US during the early 1900s
-By the 1960s and 70s, the "mass monsters" Like Arnold Schwarzenegger began to change bodybuilding forever
-by the 90s steroid usage and science had peaked, creating a world of different physiques and aesthetic possibilities 

Benefits of Bodybuilding

• Healthy diet
• Energy Increase
• Confidence

• Strength
• Aesthetics
• Physical health
• Immune system
• Joints
• Weight (BF%)
• Mental Health
• Endorphins

And the Sacrifices

• Injury
• Adonis Complex
• Depression
• Steroids
• Organ damage
• Sterilization
• Insomnia
• Depression
• Death

The Diet
Many different diets exist for bodybuilding, as people's bodies will react differently to what they are taking in for fuel. Some people are ketogenic, so they eat below 100g of carbs every day. Others believe in 40/40/20 dieting, where 40% of  your daily calories are from carbohydrates, 40% protein, and the remaining 20% is to be taken from fats. The more common diet is the 50/30/20, with slightly different percentages as the diet mentioned previously. All diets have one thing in common, eating a caloric surplus in addition to resistance training will result in gains in muscle size and strength, where eating at a caloric deficit will result in the loss of body fat, and if overdone, muscle mass as well. 

What Can I Eat?

Protein:

• Tuna or most any fish.
• Cottage cheese.
• Eggs (especially the whites).
• Chicken breast (boneless skinless).
• Turkey breast (boneless skinless).
• Lean beef.
• Low fat or no fat cheese.
• Low fat pork.
• Milk protein isolate.
• Whey protein.
• Soy protein.
• Essentially most any other source of protein so long as it is low in saturated fat and carbohydrates.

Carbohydrates:

• Sweet potatoes.
• Oat meal, oat bran, oat bran cereal (i.e. cheerios).
• Bran cereal.
• Brown rice.
• Wheat bread (try to limit to 2 slices per day).
• Beans.
• Low fat popcorn (low fat butter spray makes this a delicacy).
• Fruits (limit to 2-3 servings per day).
• Malto dextrin (during workout).
• Dextrose (during workout)
• Vegetables.
• Stay away from refined grains and anything that says “enriched” or “high fructose corn syrup” on the label!

Fat:

• Omega 3 capsules (i.e. fish oil capsules).
• Flax seed oil.
• Primrose oil.
• Borage oil.
• Olive oil.
• Nuts (limit to 1 serving per day), peanut butter (as long as it does not contain hydrogenated oils).
• Egg yolks.
• Fish (salmon especially).
• All other fat should come as a by-product of your carbohydrate and protein intake.

These foods are for being as lean as possible while still gaining muscle mass, and will result in not only an appealing physique, but an extremely healthy body. Happy lifting!