Some Protein Basics

[Iron Brother]

A guy wanting to get involved in natural bodybuilding recently contacted me and he had some basic protein questions for me.
There were a number of issues at play here. Let me see if I can break them down for you here:

1. How much protein should be consumed during any given day?
2. When is the best time to consume protein, in relation to your workouts?
3. How much protein is bad for you?
4. What kind of protein is best?
5. How do you put on muscle without increasing body fat levels?

I can give you a brief answer to most of these. However, if you are interested in finding out how to precisely trigger increases in muscle growth and stay lean, there is a newly developed way to do this very quickly and naturally. I'll refer you to this a bit later.

For now, here are some answers that may help you:

1. The amount of protein you should consume, while training to develop muscle, is 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight. However, this entire amount should be spread out over six meals each day. These can be three regular meals and three protein shakes for the sake of efficiency. This means you are looking at between 25 and 30 grams per meal.

2. The best time for you to consume protein really is independent of your workouts. You should make sure you have some in every meal. After a workout your body is low on blood sugars, so you should eat a meal rich in healthy carbohydrate. Of course that meal will also include protein. Once your body has sufficiently converted the carbohydrate that you eat after your workout, it will rapidly begin to use the protein for tissue recovery and growth.

3. If you have healthy kidneys you won't need to worry that much about excessive protein.
I say this since a healthy body should be able to handle between 30 and 50 grams of protein per meal depending on body weight.

4. The best protein comes from a mixture of all sources. However, the top contenders are egg, beef, whey, fish and chicken. Soy is good in small amounts once a day, but it is not good as a main source, as it tends to elevate estrogen levels in men over time. Estrogen is a counter-balancing hormone to testosterone. The benefit of soy is that it keeps your thyroid active.

5. Your last question is best answered by directing you to the program I mentioned earlier. It's called Naturally Massive and it was developed as a way to get the body to naturally and rapidly increase muscle size, while eliminating body fat. Up until recently natural bodybuilding involved training to add muscle, while increasing body fat. Guys would then try and lean down to show off the muscle, but would lose a lot of whhat they had gained due to the restrictive dieting. Only steroid users seemed to be able to achieve both.

Naturally Massive came into existence from cross comparison and hands on research into a variety of training and nutrition techniques around the world. What was discovered was that there are hormonal cycles that a body can be trained to function on. These cycles will rapidly increase muscle and burn fat when implemented in the right way.

I hope that helps.

All the best,

Sebastian MacLean

[Cherrioman]

The program is called Naturally Massive?

[Iron Brother]

That's right.
Naturally Massive can be located at www.naturallymassive.com

[miller]

very good information Sebastian. I was also looking for information about protein intake and how much it should be. And if it bad to take too much of protein. You have answered many of my queries.
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[Emma]

Iron brother, I haven't seen you on here since this post but if you do come back, maybe you can answer my question: does all of this info apply equally to women as well as men?
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[Newfiechick]

TY Iron Brother. Nice of you to post up for others to see.....

Emma....yes, our consumption of protein is very important as well
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[Derek]

Hey, guys/gals....I just visited Iron Brother's website www.sebastianmaclean.com/bodybuilder/ and the dude is RIPPED!! I figure it would be worth our while to take his advice seriously, as it looks to me like he damn well knows what he's talking about!

[roger355]

Yeah he looks big. I also checked his site. Nice one at that. It is given there that he started out at the age of seven. I liked the details he has given in his above post. Quite informative.
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[Almasy]

Just checked out his website! It is clear that he knows what he is talking about. Too bad he hasn't been back...

[Iron Brother]

Hi Again,

Thanks for checking out the site to all those that did and I am sorry that I haven't been back sooner. Also, thanks for the compliments. I am in the process of launching a few new natural bodybuilding items and have been harder to reach these days.

Regarding your questions...
Yes Naturally Massive can apply to women as it does to men. There are a few adjustments that you will want to make though and I explain these in the program. It boils down to the difference between men and women's metabolisms, so the frequency of certain methods is adjusted slightly.

One more thing about protein. Elevating your protein levels above 1gram per pound has been suggested as a good idea if you are on a lower carb diet, as you will be less prone to losing muscle tissue this way. More specifically, you may consider going as high as 1.5 grams per pound and elevating your dietary fat intake to to rougghly 30% of your daily calorie total. I have had to fix a number of competitor's diets ecause of their not getting enough in these areas around contest time.