Protein could be one of the most popular and controversial topics in all of nutrition. It’s become the golden child of muscle building and fat loss. Wanna build big muscles? Eat your protein. Wanna lose fat and look like a fitness model? Eat your protein. After all, everyone knows you need to eat a minimum of 30 grams of protein every two to three hours.

Back in my earlier years, I drank my protein shakes and ate my protein bars. I would constantly keep my protein intake up around 250 grams per day. Why? Because I thought it scientifically PROVEN that more protein equaled more muscle.

But now I’m not so sure.

Oct 19, 2018 - Brad Pilon How Much Protein PDF Review As you might take notice, a widget in Wordpress blogs is really a small obstruct of content. They ate 230 grams of protein, 775 grams of carbohydrates, and 240 grams of fat in 3 meals per day plus some snacks. Brad Pilon – How Much Protein Want to Read Currently Reading Read. On the contrary, what bugs me even more,is that there have been some respectable “gurus”, like Eric Helms or Layne Norton, who know their stuff about bodybuilding and nutrition and practice what they preach, which advocate higher protein intakes.

Let’s take a look at one of the research studies that the super-high protein advocates always use to ‘prove’ that eating protein after a workout makes you build muscle.

If you were in this study, this is how your day would have gone…

You would show up at a research lab around 10 PM, and you would go to sleep (no eating). The researchers would wake you up around 6 AM and start poking and probing you (again no eating). After a bunch of weighing and measurements, you would start working out around 9 AM…you still haven’t eaten yet.

This would be one of the toughest workouts you have ever done. Most likely you would do 10 sets of 8 reps on the leg press machine, followed by 8 sets of 8 reps on the leg extension machine. All of your reps would be done at 80% of your one rep max. Like I said, one brutal workout. It’s about 10am now, still haven’t eaten.

After your workout you would be given a drink that contains 3 to 6 grams of essential amino acids (the same amount of amino acids found in a glass of milk).

After that, the researchers would take measurements for the next 4 hours and measure your rate of ‘protein synthesis’.

This is pretty much the standard protocol for these types of studies.

And guess what they found? An increase in protein synthesis over those four hours.
So what does this prove? It proves that if you haven’t eaten since 10 PM the night before, do a brutal workout at 9 AM the next morning, and drink a glass of milk, you will increase your protein synthesis for four hours!

So much for needing 30 grams of protein, and so much for needing protein every couple hours.
You know what else? The only reason I say protein synthesis increases for 4 hours is because after 4 hours the researchers stopped measuring. Who knows how long you would have stayed in a muscle building state. Some researchers have estimated that a single workout can put you into ‘muscle building mode’ for as long as 48 hours after your workout!

Even more interesting is that researchers have found similar results when they made people drink the amino acids before their workout, and even when they made them wait and drink the amino acids a couple hours after their workout!

Here’s another example, for you to consider.

In a research trial conducted on people who were over 50 years old and had chronic renal insufficiency (real bad kidneys) researchers explored the idea that resistance training could counteract the low protein diets that these people had to be on because of their medical condition.

On average these subject were eating under 0.3 grams of protein per pound of body weight. To put that into perspective, a 180 pound man would be eating about 50 grams of protein per day! For 12 weeks!

So what the researchers were thinking was ‘since these people were on such low protein diets, for extended periods of time, muscle loss is definitely a risk. However, maybe if we made them weight train, we could prevent this from happening’.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

At the end of the study, the subject working out 3 times per week maintained there body weight, while the group that was not lifting weights lost about 7 pounds.

The group lifting weights also saw increases in muscle strength and muscle size. While the group not weight training lost some muscle and a little bit of strength.

This study is a great example of people actually gaining muscle size on a low protein diet as a result of resistance training.

Now, I realize the study was done on people who were over 50, and had a medical condition, but regardless, they gained muscle size.

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This research shows that you can build a significant amount of muscle with relatively low protein intakes (the amount you get from your food in the average north american diet) as long as you are lifting weights.

Protein has a role in every one’s nutrition plan, and it is an essential nutrient that is important for building and repairing muscles. From my understanding of the research I think it makes sense to try and consume a small amount of protein somewhere around the time you workout. I just don’t think we need to be paying good money for tubs and tubs of the stuff, if the amount we get in our diets will serve our purposes just fine.

Scientists have not yet been able to determine if large amounts of protein have any extra effect on muscle gain. The massive amounts of protein that bodybuilders eat might work, but no scientists have been able to prove it so far.

Bottom line: if your goal is muscle building you most likely do not necessarily need to eat any extra protein. You can if you like, however I cannot find a good scientific reason to so far.

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One last note – Very little research is done on people who are on anabolic steroids. I cannot discount the idea that, in these individuals, extreme amounts of protein may help the muscle building process due to the fact that this process is enhanced by the use of steroids.

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And this, my friend, is just that. Hrad means that the timed one, the 25 grams is better, significantly better. Certain people in the food industry will spare no expenses making sure you believe two things – Protein is good for you, and you need more protein.

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If you diet, down to the same size. If they didn’t like him before, fitness scammers and the supplement industry will definitely not like what Brad has to say after reading this book. Let me give you an example: Here, he looks at various studies that muscle growth with a low-protein diet, muscle growth with a prltein high-protein diet, the timing of protein intake, post-workout protein consumption and others.

That hod to a lot of people. This section by itself makes investment in the book worthwhile because believe me, reading it will change your perspective about the information you find in the fitness magazines.

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That’s why I’m going to let you So what does this prove? I get maximally stimulated just talking to you, by the way. I was losing weight, but was not seeing increased muscle definition, and was having poor quality workouts, and diminished strength And over the grand scheme of months and different—.

Like I said, one brutal workout.

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I don’t think I’m getting my point across: How to gain 4. In a really interesting study published back in43 men who were experienced weight lifters took part in a study that involved exercise and weekly injections of testosterone enanthate for 10 weeks.

Protein could be one of the most popular and controversial topics in all of nutrition. But maybe you should post some for the others who have no idea ptotein are interested.

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People often make that mistake of feeding their fat as I like to say in this case. Personally, I’ve been tracking my diet accurately for close to 2 months now and I’m eating grams of protein everyday, without drinking any protein supplement or focusing a lot on my protein.

Page 63 reveals the details on this highly debated topic! In fact, probably only about 5 out of every people reading this right now will actually end up purchasing the book.

I read protwin new one every time you send it to me, the updated version. Being tired affects everything. I noticed that no carbs before is not so good but if I have them too close to training then I get zero pump.

And your preferred way of doing it is what? However since I’m a bodybuilder myself, I realize you’re skeptical.

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