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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The Right Way To Build Muscles With Protein

By Martin Elmer

If you want to build large muscles and lose weight at the same time a high protein diet is a must. Both goals are closely related, because when you are building muscles, you will also produce metabolism. And the metabolism burns fat. So the higher level of metabolism, the more weight you will lose.

To get larger muscles, you have to work out. You are doing that by stressing you muscles to the absolute point of failure, where you cannot do another repetition. Then you must stop, because else you risk an injury.

You are sending a message to your body, when you are stressing you muscles to the point of failure. The message is that it can expect similar stress in the future. The body will respond by growing the muscles.

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 to grow larger muscles, you have to break them down and build them up again. And to do that you have to feed your body. And the food for your body is protein.

Protein can be found in the daily diet like eggs, poultry, fish etc. And if you want to build your muscles the most effective way, you need to figure out how much protein you need each day.

You can expect to consume about 1g of protein for each pound you weight, if you work out intensely. That means you have to consume 130g protein per day if your weight is 130 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.

The simple way to follow is to go for a high protein diet and cut down on carbohydrate and fat. Then it will not be a problem if some of the protein is converted to fat.

If you are having problem getting enough protein, you can use protein supplements along with your normal meals. Then you also do not have to worry about getting too many calories from the normal 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. - 17269

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