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Protein for Muscle BuildingFast Muscles Gain is impossible out Muscle Building Foods such as Protein!
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Protein should be an essential part of your Muscle Building Diet for a number of reasons (primarily as it is one of the foods that build muscle!).  Firstly,
Protein is full of amino acids. Eating protein increases the level of
amino acids in your blood stream. These amino acids-which are the building blocks of protein- travel through your system to the muscles of the body. Once they arrive at your muscles the amino acids synthesize to create new proteins needed to build and gain muscle mass. [NOTE: A vital point to remember is that every time you work out you are tearing down muscles and then rebuilding them. Protein is necessary to repair and re-build big muscle!] Secondly, protein is an substance that can help us boost our metabolic rate which means more calories are consumed by our bodies. This is due to the thermic effect which protein induces. The thermic effect simply means that the body must do more work digesting a certain food (in this case protein) than other foods such as Carbohydrates and Fats. This is benefical as; More work done by the body = more
calories burnt = more Fat Burnt
Studies have shown that this thermic effect when eating a high protein diet as oppose to a low protein diet can be increase by as much as 20% . The thermic effect can also be elevated by increasing the number of meals we eat day to day. So instead of consuming 3-4 large meals per day why not consume 6-7 medium sized meals?! On top of that, the 19 Amino Acids that make up Protein are what build muscle and muscle is an excellent calorie burner. Muscle also gives our bodies great shape. Protein Information Protein is the basic structure of all living cells and is utilized for the growth are repair of cells. The basic building blocks of protein are called amino acids. Amino acids are categorized as essential amino acids (EAA) and nonessential amino acids(NAA). Nine of the twenty amino acids are considered Essential Amino Acids which must come from our diets. These nine EAAs are available in complete protein foods such as Meat, fish, milk, cheese and eggs. Our bodies can produce the non-essential amino acids from the by-products of carbohydrates otherwise known as incomplete proteins. For example vegetables, nuts seeds, dairy products and grains. However, in fitness regimes these non-essential amino acids despite the name are very essential. Essential Amino Acids (9) --Histidine
--Leucine --Lysine --Methionine --Phenylalanine --Threonine
--Tryptophan --Valine
Non-Essential Amino Acids (11) --Alanine
--Arginine --Aspartic Acid --Cysteine --Glycine --Glutamine --Taurine
--Proline --Serine --Tyrosine
The measurement of the synthesising ability of protein is known as the Biological Value (BV) of the protein. The higher the BV value the more readily the protein is absorbed by the body. Example of the BV; Whey protein: 104 Whole bean: 96 Milk: 95 Egg: 94 Soybean milk: 91 Cheese: 84 Rice: 83 Fish: 76 Beef: 74.3 Whole wheat: 64 White flour(White bread): 41 Return to Body2Shape Homepage |
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