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Can
Protein Increase Your Muscle Tone Getting Fed Up with Your Lack Of Muscle Tone and Growth? Have you ever wondered why you weight train like crazy and yet your muscle tone decreases? You've increased your weights, fat burned like crazy to lose extra body fat, so you can see your muscle definition, but none of this seems to work. You are not sure what you are doing wrong but you are getting fed up not getting results. So why Would Protein Help? When exercising, particularly weight training, our bodies need plenty of protein to develop and maintain muscle. Protein is broken down into amino acids, then turned back into protein to produce and repair our muscles after our training session. Because amino acids can be burned by the body during exercise, especially aerobic exercise, it is important that we make the effort to supplement our muscles to help them repair faster and more efficiently. What Happens to my Muscles if I don't Bother to Increase my Protein Intake? At the beginning of this article I mentioned instances that you may be familiar with. If you are training hard and don't bother to supplement your muscles with extra protein your muscles can quite easily be burnt away as energy. So your muscles will then start to deplete. So how Much Protein Should I be Taking? This depends on your body size, training schedule and program. It is important that you increase your intake to cater for your training so your muscles can survive your training sessions. Protein
intake required for the average person - who performs a light
amount of exercise. Protein
intake required an Athlete who has a heavy training schedule that
involves alot of resistance exercise, sports specific training or
weight training Protein
intake required for the person - who has a hard core heavy weight
training schedule. The above are approximations and examples to give you some idea of what the bodies requirements are for protein. See the difference in the protein intake for the programs that involve more muscle damage? Keeping Up with Consuming Larger Amounts of Protein Such high intakes of protein can be difficult to keep up with on a daily basis. So as well as including the following protein sources in your low fat healthy eating program you can also use a protein powder. (see below) Sources of
protein: When performing regular resistance training try to include a source of protein in each meal. Say for instance: Breakfast: 2 x poached egg whites, morning snack: 1 x protein shake, lunch: lean chicken with salad sandwich, afternoon snack: 1 x protein shake, dinner: grilled lean read meat or fish with veggies. If you are still hungry late at night, and you've been training hard, you might want to also have a protein shake before going to bed, as this is your peak muscle recovery time. 2 x protein shakes per day should be sufficient for the average person wanting to increase lean muscle mass. Protein Powders Protein Powders help supplement your eating program with the necessary muscle nutrients that your body requires such as Amino Acids (mentioned above), Vitamins and Minerals. Protein powders are a convenient way of ensuring you receive an adequate protein intake. On the average, 2-3 serves per day of protein powder are required. There are so many protein powders available to us now. You can choose from heaps of different flavors, different powders for different training needs and even easier to mix powders that can be mixed in shakers rather than blenders. One more thing too. Make sure that you drink lots of water when increasing your protein intake to prevent dehydration and to help the digestion of your protein. Try to cycle your protein intake here and there to give your body a rest from trying to digest large amounts of protein. Like a cleansing process. Just a few last words! It is important before starting any new eating program to check with your doctor regarding increases or decreases in certain food intakes. You should now have a better understanding of why protein is important for assisting with your training. Your eating program and training program work hand in hand to help you achieve the training goals you have worked so hard for. For more information on Personalised Training and Low Fat Eating plans please feel free to visit my site: http://www.virtualfitnesstrainer.com Click here to view more free articles on health and fitness: Health and Fitness Articles Kind Regards Mandy
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