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Build Muscle with Protein
You can walk into any gym in the world and hear the same discussions over and over again. They all center on the importance of protein when it comes to building muscle. The reason that you will constantly hear this same thing over and over again is simply because it is true. Protein is a key component in building muscle.
Those who are trying to build muscle need to eat approximately six small meals a day, and during one day, they need to consume one gram of protein for every pound that they weigh. This means that if you weigh 200 pounds, you need 200 grams of protein. If you weigh 170 pounds, you need 170 grams of protein.
Note that this is a lot of protein, and most doctors don’t recommend high protein diets such as this for long periods of time, although nobody knows for sure what the effects of a long term high protein diet such as this are at this time. The standard recommendation, for those who are not trying to build muscle, is seven ounces for teenaged boys and grown men, and five ounces for children aged two to six, women, and older people. Teenage girls and children over the age of six need about six ounces of protein, as do women who are more active than what most women are. When you compare these numbers to what is recommended for body building, you can see that body builders consume very large amounts of protein.
There are very technical and explicit reasons why those who want to build muscle should increase their intake of protein so significantly, but science has proven that when you consume more protein, your body burns fat faster and more efficiently. You feel full for longer periods of time, you actually take in fewer calories – even though it doesn’t seem like it, and you do lose weight. It is also a proven fact that muscles feed on protein better than anything else, and when you are building muscles, you want your muscles to be well fed.
Protein is especially important immediately before and immediately after a workout. Most bodybuilders consume their protein at these times in liquid form, and again, there is a very good reason for this – liquids are digested and absorbed by the body much faster than solid foods are. This means that you get the full benefit of the protein during and after your workout, instead of letting the workout or the protein consumption ‘go to waste.’
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