01-03-2004, 04:59 PM
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Location: Orange County, California
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Re: Questions About Protein Intake
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Originally posted by Nachtschleicher
1) What does protein do for you? Make your muscles bigger? Make them recover faster?
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Protein is essential for building and maintaining muscles, as well as repairing the muscle damage that occurs during training. When trying to build muscle or maintain it while dieting, they reccommend getting at least 1 gram per pound of bodyweight. Therefore 260 grams per day in your case. Some people eat enough protein in their diet but others will have to supplement to get the required amounts. Just realize that your body can only synthesize around 30 grams per meal so overloading your protein on one meal alone will not benefit you. You have to spread it out over all your meals. With increased protein I don't think you will notice the soreness go away faster, but having a lack of protein will definately make the soreness last longer (if that makes sense).
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2) Do I actually need protein? Usually after a while of not working out, I’ll start weight training and see results as soon as two (2) days.
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You need it every day.
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3) I eat red meat for almost every dinner (usually ground hamburger, or chicken). Will the extra protein be unnecessary?
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Ugh, that isnt good to be consuming that much red meat for a number of reasons I won't get into on this post. I eat red meat once or twice a week at the most. Stick with chicken, turkey, and fish instead.
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4) If the extra protein would do some good, are there ways to make protein shakes without buying the whey protein stuff?
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Hmmm, protein is relatively cheap but if you really want to make your own I am sure you can research it on the net to find people's concoctions 
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