Bodybuilding as a sport has been characterized by protracted debates regarding the most appropriate levels of protein needed to ensure maximum muscle gain. These protracted debates have been between bodybuilding experts and nutritionists who have very different opinions regarding this matter. There has been various research conducted to determine the levels which are most appropriate for achieving maximum muscle gain and the results of these extensive studies have been relayed in this article. For those people who have decided to take up the sport of bodybuilding this article will be a great insight as it will offer information about the building blocks of muscles which is proteins.
There have been many recent publications about proteins and most of these articles were written by quacks who claim to be fitness experts or nutritionists. Such articles have lead many people astray on issues regarding proteins and that is why many have failed to succeed in bodybuilding. Such people have ended up ditching the fundamentals of muscle gain and instead opted for the easier way out which are steroids. However I can not say that I blame them because there is nothing worse than training very hard in the gym and yet your body is not responding to the training. You end up wasting lot of energy and time in the gym for nothing.
When it comes to muscle building, proteins are a necessity. The recommended RDA protein 0.8g/kg daily intake limit is not sufficient enough to enable a person achieve great muscle mass. The right way to increase your muscle mass immensely is by the amounts you are currently digesting. This will help you increase the amount of amino acids in your blood. As you can recall from your biology the formation of muscle building cells in the body is determined by the amount of amino acids present in the blood. Therefore if you increase the amount of protein intake you will consequently experience an increase in the amount of muscles.
This is because when you increase your protein intake you also enhance anabolic processes in the body which are the key to muscle growth. When you undergo intense workout this has the resultant effect of depleting the amounts of amino acids in your system. Therefore the rate of muscle growth is affected after intense workouts. In order to restore the levels of amino acids in the body you need to increase your protein intake. This is the reason why taking protein level of 0.8g/kg is considered to be very insufficient.
Another protracted debate is whether taking a lot of proteins is detrimental to muscle growth. There is no research evidence which has shown that if you take a lot of proteins your muscle growth will be affected. In fact the studied showed that taking a lot of proteins could help boost your health. All those theories that taking a lot of proteins is detrimental to muscle gain is a big sham. The bottom line is these if you want to attain muscle growth take as much protein as possible.
