Why It’s Best For Building Muscle Protein plays a crucial role in the growth and repair of everything from skin to hair to nails. Oh, and guess what else? MUSCLE! Along with a proper workout routine and an ideal calorie intake, a sufficiently high protein diet is one of the 3 requirements for muscle to be built. In fact, it’s a requirement for muscle to just be maintained. In addition, eating high protein foods at certain ideal times (I’ll tell you those times in a minute) will also play an important role in the building or maintaining of muscle tissue as well as the entire workout recovery process. See, during any kind of weightlifting or strength training workout, your muscles are basically being broken down with the intent being to build them back up a tiny bit better than they were before. What all research shows is that there is no aspect of your diet that is more essential to this process than protein. Meaning, without a high protein diet, muscle growth, muscle maintenance, and workout recovery will just not be happening as effectively as it should. Why It’s Best For Weight Loss People always say they want to “lose weight,” but that’s a stupid way of saying it. “Weight” can be a bunch of different things. In reality, what we all want to do here is lose fat… NOT muscle. And what all research shows is that eating a high protein diet is the KEY dietary factor in preserving lean muscle while body fat is lost. Like I said earlier, a sufficient protein intake is a requirement for maintaining muscle. But that’s not all. In addition to usually being low in calories, high protein foods are also some of the most filling foods there are. Of the 3 macronutrients that provide our daily calories (protein, carbs and fat), research shows that protein is the most filling of them all. Which means, a high protein diet is key to keeping you full and satisfied, and keeping your hunger under control. But wait, there are still more benefits. Besides being the most filling, protein is also the nutrient that burns the most calories while being digested. You see, everything we eat causes calories to be burned during digestion. Protein just burns significantly more than everything else. Which means, eating a high protein diet loaded with high protein foods will INCREASE the amount of calories your body naturally burns each day. People always associate protein with building muscle, but as you can clearly see, it’s just as important for weight loss
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 05:46:12 +0000
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