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Protein After Workout Diet

Protein is one the essential nutrients needed by our body, and is vital for our health. It is mainly used to build muscles, hair, skin and nails. However, by eating too much protein, many people put their health at risk.

The typical daily American diet already has plenty of protein in it and there is no reason in consuming more proteins. Unlike fat cells, our body do not store protein so the excess proteins are wasted.

What is require from you is to consume just enough protein to enable your muscles to perform work, grow and stay healthy. But how much do we measure the amount of protein that is just enough for our body?

Protein is accountable for about 15% of our energy needs, the majority of energy sources comes from our body fats and carbohydrates. Doing more exercises doesn’t mean that you will require more protein but having more carbohydrates stop your body breaking down the protein and using that for energy.

Protein Intake

Ensure that 75% of your protein intake comes from sources such as fish, eggs, meat, or poultry. The 'complete' protein provided by these food sources combine with the 'incomplete' proteins from other food sources. So your body is able to make the best of all the protein that you have consume.

If you are over consuming protein, high chance you are consuming too much calories over your acceptance level. This will result in an increase in your body's fat levels. With the trend of the latest hype about high protein diets, carbohydrates are not consumed in the required amount so the protein is used as the main energy source and the result is protein is used as the growth for muscles.

Workout for muscle growth

What is required for muscle growth is not even more protein but high intensity strength workout with the ample amount of time for rest of muscles and recovery between the workout sessions.

Just because that famous bodybuilding star, which appear in the latest magazine, takes 300 grams of protein a day does not mean that you have to follow him. What he is not telling you is that actually consuming steroids is the reason behind his muscle explosive growth and not his protein diet.

High intensity strength training exercises, not food, stimulate the muscle growth. Eating excessive amounts of protein not needed by our body damages the kidneys and liver. Not just that, it promotes the deficiencies of vitamin and minerals. Excessive protein consumption is also linked to cancers and osteoporosis.

Ideal Protein Intake Diet Plan

One way to overcome the need to consume large quantities of protein daily is to increase the daily protein consumption until a maximum comsumption/efficiency ratio is reached and then to start the diet all over again. This will force the body to increase the efficiency for the protein absorption into the body.

An example of a Ideal Protein Diet Plan is as follows

Break your meal consumption into 5 parts which is as follows : Breakfast , Snack 1, Lunch, Snack 2 and lastly dinner. For the week 3 and 4, add in a supper which should be consume before bed.

If you notice, the amount of protein consumed increased from week 1 to week 4. After week 4 of this diet, you will switch back to week 1's diet which is has the lowest amount of protein.

This is an ideal protein diet plan has a mixture of fats, carbohydrates and protein which, when combined with high intensity workout, will be extremely effective in growing your muscle.