These days, chances are that if you're watching your waistline, you're also watching your carbs. Carbohydrates are your muscle's preferred source of energy for resistance training, so your diet has to be sufficiently high in carbs to help you power through your workouts. On the other hand, if you consume too many carbs, you could end up singing the Spare Tire Blues. What to do?

In this article, we examine ways that you can use a reduced carb diet with your resistance training to help you get leaner and more muscular faster--- without burning away your hard-earned muscle tissue. This is especially useful in the last weeks before a bodybuilding or physique competition when you are trying to get off the last few stubborn pounds of body fat.

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