Originally posted by sfdmalex
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Recent studies have detemined that 150g of protein consumed within 24 hours after a workout results in an average gain of 20g of muscle. A pound is 453 grams, so we're talking .04 lbs of muscle gain from 2 protein shakes, or 5 chicken breasts, or 7 cans of tuna fish.
A pound is 450 grams. That means that it would take you about 3 weeks of working out daily and eating an extra 150g of protein per day -- in addition to your maintenance calories (3,000 per day if you're working out that hard; maybe more!) -- to build ONE POUND of muscle. If you don't take in the protein, it will take you a lot longer. You may burn fat, which will make you look more muscular, but once you're done growing, you have to take in big amounts of protein to build muscle.
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