Using Protein Supplements To Build Muscle, Lose Body Fat, And Get The Most From Your Workouts!
When you’re specializing on your showy muscles, you want to keep a high degree of definition. You don’t want to accumulate any fat. But, at the same time, you want to build up some nice crisp muscle.
The way to do it is by using supplements real heavy. You need supplements all the time no matter what kind of program you’re on. You won’t gain properly without them. But they’re especially important when you’re trying to build muscle without losing any definition.
The key to building pure muscle is to keep your protein, vitamin, and mineral intake as high as possible without taking in excess calories. You need to be awfully well nourished to build muscle.
But if you tried to get all the necessary elements from food alone, your calorie intake would have to be way up. So high, in fact, that you’d probably put on a little excess fat. This would probably ruin everything. You’ve got to stay hard and defined. And you do that with supplements.
What supplements you use is entirely your decision. The amount and variety you use will depend on what you’re trying to accomplish. Obviously, if you’re a beginner trying to add muscle at any cost, your requirements will differ from a middle aged man whose primary interest is the maintenance of good health.
The first item to consider is protein. Protein is the key to building muscle. It’s as important as the exercise. You simply won’t gain without it. You could get a lot of protein if you drank loads of milk each day and ate tremendous amounts of meats and eggs and so on. But your waistline would suffer. You have got to get your protein in a more concentrated form, and the only way is with protein supplements.
If you are currently on a tight budget and think you haven’t got the money left over for supplements, you are making a grave error. You are practicing false economy. Not only are you not really saving money, but you are actually wasting food dollars that wouldn’t be wasted if you took a protein supplement.
Here is why: Amino acids are the components that make up all protein. There are twenty-two amino acids, and in various amounts and combinations they form all the proteins we know. Fourteen of the amino acids can be made by the body using various proteins that you eat. Eight of the acids, though, can’t be manufactured by your body. They’ve got to be supplied directly from the food you eat.
The acids that can’t be manufactured by your body are called the essential amino acids. They’ve got long, complicated names like methionine, phenylalanine, tryptophane, and so on, although actually the names don’t really matter.
The two important things to know, are that all the essential amino acids must be present before the protein you eat can be converted into muscle, and that a lot of protein foods don’t contain all the essential amino acids.
Now, if you eat a protein food that hasn’t got all the essential acids – an incomplete protein – then some of it will be wasted. Your body can’t build muscle with it because the essential acids are missing. Some of the food you’ve eaten won’t be used at all. Your body will ignore it as thoroughly as if you’d never eaten it.
So it really doesn’t matter how much protein you eat. If you haven’t got the essential amino acids, then you can’t build muscle and all the incomplete protein you eat is wasted. But if you consume an abundance of essential acids, then they’ll mix and allow you to build muscle from all the other proteins. That way you’ll use all the food you eat and not waste a large part of it.
Protein supplements are far and away the best source of the essential amino acids. A good protein supplement could end your bodybuilding troubles. All you’ve got to do is put the “wasted” food to work building muscle, and the only way to do it is with the essential amino acids you’ll get from a good quality supplement.
So you see, a protein supplement isn’t really such an expense when you consider the added results you’ll get from the rest of the food you eat. Consume enough protein and do the workout in my “Huge Gains Fast mini-course” properly and you can look forward to startling gains in size, shape, and strength. You’ll completely revamp your appearance in a very, very, short time.
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