How To Build Muscles With Protein
Posted by Martin Elmer | Posted in weight loss | Posted on 04-01-2012-05-2008
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A high protein diet is a must if you are planning to improve the result of your work out and lose weight. And both goals are closely related to each other. The reason is that when you are building your muscles, your will also build metabolism. And if you have a high level of metabolism, you will also burn more fat. The result is loss of weight.
You have to work out to build muscle mass. The way to get larger muscles is to stress them to the point of failure. You have reached this point when you are not able to do another repetition. Do not try to continue then, because you muscles may get injured.
When you are stressing you muscles to the point of failure, you are sending a message to them that your body can expect a similar stress in the future. The response from your muscles is to grow.
When you finish your workout a repair process will begin. The muscles will not just grow to the state they had before. They will grow further to resist a similar stress level in the future. This will result in larger muscles.
So way to build your muscles is to break them down and then build them up again. To do that you have you provide nutrient to your body; and the nutrient is protein.
You can find protein in a lot of food like poultry, eggs, fish etc. So you have to figure out how much protein you have to consume each day to build the muscles.
A rule of thumb says that for every pound you weight, you have to consume 1g of protein; if you work out intensely. E.g. you have to consume 140g protein per day, if your weight is 140 pound.
It can be difficult to find the right amount of protein. Too high protein consumption will result in more fat, and too little will mean that you are not getting the muscles, you wished for.
A high protein diet is the easiest way to make sure that you get enough proteins. To keep your weight you then have to cut down on fat and carbohydrate. If not you will get all three types of calories.
You can supplement your normal meals with protein supplements, if you are having problems getting enough proteins. Then you are also not getting to many calories from the real food.
A positive side effect (besides larger muscles) is that a high protein diet plan also will boost your immune system; and thereby improve your general health.
Martin Elmer is the editor of Proteintilskud. Here you can also read about Weight gainer.
