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Protein Intake
Plastique:
For a hard training person trying to gain muscle, what's the current science regarding the recommended daily minimum amount of protein to support growth and take care of bodily maintenance?
I haven't read anything about this for a while, and what I have read about it throughout the years has been littered with a lot of bro-science.
Samhain:
I haven't come across anything as of late either. It used to be 1 gram of protein per pound of bodyweight. Then I heard 1 gram per kilogram of bodyweight. Then I heard 1 gram per pound of lean mass. I haven't really bothered to keep track of how much protein I've been putting in for years and have still been good with the gains. I usually do a whey protein shake right after a workout, mostly because it's convenient, and I usually don't feel like eating for a while after I'm done. I also put a scoop of casein protein in my morning smoothie because it seems to keep me full for most of the morning. So while I don't track protein intake, I guess I know that with the protein powder and the meat I get from my meals that I'm probably getting enough.
As an aside, I enjoy reading some of the uncensored interviews with professional bodybuilders because I'm amazed at the abuse they put themselves through. Greg Kovacs, who at one time was billed as the world's largest bodybuilder, tipping the scale at 400 pounds, once said he would put down 1000 grams of protein per day. As another aside, in an interview with another bodybuilder, he claimed Kovacs was so big he couldn't wipe his own butt and had to get his girlfriend to do it.
Plastique:
--- Quote from: Samhain on Jun 19, 2012, 09:27:47 AM ---I haven't come across anything as of late either. It used to be 1 gram of protein per pound of bodyweight. Then I heard 1 gram per kilogram of bodyweight. Then I heard 1 gram per pound of lean mass.
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Haha, yup, heard the same shit.
--- Quote from: Samhain on Jun 19, 2012, 09:27:47 AM ---As an aside, I enjoy reading some of the uncensored interviews with professional bodybuilders because I'm amazed at the abuse they put themselves through. Greg Kovacs, who at one time was billed as the world's largest bodybuilder, tipping the scale at 400 pounds, once said he would put down 1000 grams of protein per day. As another aside, in an interview with another bodybuilder, he claimed Kovacs was so big he couldn't wipe his own butt and had to get his girlfriend to do it.
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Yeah, Kovacs' daily caloric intake was fucking outrageous. Simply existing must have been so uncomfortable for him, partly from the huge body (those really big guys can barely walk up steps without running out of puff), and partly from being stuffed to the gills with food all the time.
I stood next to Ronnie Coleman in his prime, and it was surreal. In clothes he looked obese, and in posing trunks he looked like he was wearing a rubber muscle suit. There were a few other pros around at the time (Cormier for one), and no one else had that same eye-popping level of development.
Samhain:
--- Quote from: Plastique on Jun 19, 2012, 09:44:17 AM ---
--- Quote from: Samhain on Jun 19, 2012, 09:27:47 AM ---I haven't come across anything as of late either. It used to be 1 gram of protein per pound of bodyweight. Then I heard 1 gram per kilogram of bodyweight. Then I heard 1 gram per pound of lean mass.
--- End quote ---
Haha, yup, heard the same shit.
--- Quote from: Samhain on Jun 19, 2012, 09:27:47 AM ---As an aside, I enjoy reading some of the uncensored interviews with professional bodybuilders because I'm amazed at the abuse they put themselves through. Greg Kovacs, who at one time was billed as the world's largest bodybuilder, tipping the scale at 400 pounds, once said he would put down 1000 grams of protein per day. As another aside, in an interview with another bodybuilder, he claimed Kovacs was so big he couldn't wipe his own butt and had to get his girlfriend to do it.
--- End quote ---
Yeah, Kovacs' daily caloric intake was fucking outrageous. Simply existing must have been so uncomfortable for him, partly from the huge body (those really big guys can barely walk up steps without running out of puff), and partly from being stuffed to the gills with food all the time.
I stood next to Ronnie Coleman in his prime, and it was surreal. In clothes he looked obese, and in posing trunks he looked like he was wearing a rubber muscle suit. There were a few other pros around at the time (Cormier for one), and no one else had that same eye-popping level of development.
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Coleman definitely took things to a whole other level. I always wondered how he was able to continue being a police officer with the amount of steroids he had to be putting into himself.
Plastique:
--- Quote from: Samhain on Jun 19, 2012, 09:58:20 AM ---
--- Quote from: Plastique on Jun 19, 2012, 09:44:17 AM ---
--- Quote from: Samhain on Jun 19, 2012, 09:27:47 AM ---I haven't come across anything as of late either. It used to be 1 gram of protein per pound of bodyweight. Then I heard 1 gram per kilogram of bodyweight. Then I heard 1 gram per pound of lean mass.
--- End quote ---
Haha, yup, heard the same shit.
--- Quote from: Samhain on Jun 19, 2012, 09:27:47 AM ---As an aside, I enjoy reading some of the uncensored interviews with professional bodybuilders because I'm amazed at the abuse they put themselves through. Greg Kovacs, who at one time was billed as the world's largest bodybuilder, tipping the scale at 400 pounds, once said he would put down 1000 grams of protein per day. As another aside, in an interview with another bodybuilder, he claimed Kovacs was so big he couldn't wipe his own butt and had to get his girlfriend to do it.
--- End quote ---
Yeah, Kovacs' daily caloric intake was fucking outrageous. Simply existing must have been so uncomfortable for him, partly from the huge body (those really big guys can barely walk up steps without running out of puff), and partly from being stuffed to the gills with food all the time.
I stood next to Ronnie Coleman in his prime, and it was surreal. In clothes he looked obese, and in posing trunks he looked like he was wearing a rubber muscle suit. There were a few other pros around at the time (Cormier for one), and no one else had that same eye-popping level of development.
--- End quote ---
Coleman definitely took things to a whole other level. I always wondered how he was able to continue being a police officer with the amount of steroids he had to be putting into himself.
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Do you think that's hypocritical?
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