Why the conventional wisdom on how to grow muscles is wrong
They seem to be talking about bodybuilding a lot, but then (at least some) of the discussions move to muscle growth among random groups of people.  The two are not the same.  Bodybuilders are trying to put on muscle, sometimes in specific places, long after they have stalled in workouts most people would do.<p>&gt;Going on a higher carb diet increases intramuscular glycogen stores, which attracts a lot of water into the muscles, ~3 grams per gram of glycogen. It’s not uncommon for a guy to gain 4 pounds of what looks like muscle when they go from a low to a high carb diet. This is probably the main reason high carb diets are so popular among bodybuilders and it makes it incredibly hard to see if you’re looking bigger because of your training or because of your higher carb intake.<p>You don&#x27;t eat carbs for the pump.  It&#x27;s right there in the paragraph -- you eat carbs to have glycogen, so you can lift more.  Then you stop eating carbs to get shredded.<p>I personally don&#x27;t like bodybuilding as a sport, but this whole piece was just insulting.  If you want to make such sweeping contradictory claims, you have to experiment with people who are already more than experienced in lifting.  People who have put on an top percentile of muscle and are trying to eke out just a bit more.<p>For the sedentary, or the purely cardio oriented, just about any lifting will show improvements.  But it just isn&#x27;t the same as what a bodybuilder needs to progress.