Bodybuilding and Protein intake: It’s about the quality, not the quantity dudes (and dudettes)

Bodybuilding and Protein intake: It’s about the quality, not the quantity dudes (and dudettes)

Bodybuilding 

I can't say this is truly fact,  just my opinion based upon experimentation.

Among's weightlifters, the is this tendency to put down as much protein, especially animal protein, as possible, to bulk up and build muscle.

I have found this to be a waste of time, for one simple reason, in that the human body can only process so much of that protein that goes into the body.

Just like those many people trying to lose weight by counting  their calories, weightlifters tend to count their grams of protein per day, with many of the "protein zealots" taking in several hundred grams a day.

Bodybuilding 

Having always had the opposite weight problem that many have, that is, me finding it hard to put on weight as opposed to those desperately trying to lose weight, it seems that what works better for me is to focus on protein sources that are highly absorbable and processable by the body.

Bodybuilding 

Me, being the typical guy, always trying to get a 'bod like the guy pictured above (uh, well maybe somewhat like his body in symmetry,  but slightly less big), went though the phase of buying wheel barrels of chicken breast, and even trying the 10 raw egg shakes (the raw egg thing lasted about 2 weeks for me), my longest steak was putting down 2 to 4 of cans of canned tuna every day for a year or so in my early thirties.

In in the end, putting down all that animal protein every day, normally for commercially processed chicken and cattle, or high mercury canned tuna in toxic lined cans, doesn't create more muscle, but in reality only creates more stress on the body.  A better approach is to go with smaller servings of more quality protein, which should allow for more to be absorbed by the body.