how to keep muscles full and vascular

[Atomini]

Everyone here has mentioned carbs, which is what I was going to say, so that saves me from having to mention it. But one other thing I wanted to mention that everyone misses and ignores purposefully:

SODIUM

Keep your sodium intake up, but obviously not to excessive levels. Sodium is extremely important for muscle fullness, hydration, and contraction. Most of us have been convinced to drop sodium almost completely out of our diets and that's really something that is not good. This is especially true if you engage in sports or intense physical exercise, weight lifting, etc. Unless you are a competitive bodybuilder ready to jump on stage in a week, you DON'T need to drop your sodium intake. It should actually be quite moderate. For the average Joe blow dude who doesn't work out, sits on his ass all day, then he could do with a miniscule sodium intake. But for those of us engaging in intense physical exercise on a regular basis, you need to keep your sodium intake up! The more you train and the harder you train, the more sodium is utilized and excreted which then necessitates more ingestion of sodium to keep levels optimal. The average dude who doesn't work out's body isn't using sodium like ours do.

I once dropped my sodium intake to near zero levels because I fell into that mistake of thinking that we need to 'eliminate' sodium from our diets because its 'bad', and guess what? I noticed my muscles looked flatter, I got a far lesser pump in the gym when training, and although strength did not decrease, it staggered. As soon as I loaded up on sodium again, BOOM! Muscles inflated like a balloon, and the intense pumps were back up in the gym.

[Shsm]

Everyone here has mentioned carbs, which is what I was going to say, so that saves me from having to mention it. But one other thing I wanted to mention that everyone misses and ignores purposefully:

SODIUM

Keep your sodium intake up, but obviously not to excessive levels. Sodium is extremely important for muscle fullness, hydration, and contraction. Most of us have been convinced to drop sodium almost completely out of our diets and that's really something that is not good. This is especially true if you engage in sports or intense physical exercise, weight lifting, etc. Unless you are a competitive bodybuilder ready to jump on stage in a week, you DON'T need to drop your sodium intake. It should actually be quite moderate. For the average Joe blow dude who doesn't work out, sits on his ass all day, then he could do with a miniscule sodium intake. But for those of us engaging in intense physical exercise on a regular basis, you need to keep your sodium intake up! The more you train and the harder you train, the more sodium is utilized and excreted which then necessitates more ingestion of sodium to keep levels optimal. The average dude who doesn't work out's body isn't using sodium like ours do.

I once dropped my sodium intake to near zero levels because I fell into that mistake of thinking that we need to 'eliminate' sodium from our diets because its 'bad', and guess what? I noticed my muscles looked flatter, I got a far lesser pump in the gym when training, and although strength did not decrease, it staggered. As soon as I loaded up on sodium again, BOOM! Muscles inflated like a balloon, and the intense pumps were back up in the gym.

What would you say is the ideal daily consumption of sodium for a weightlifter?