Muscle Building Protein Shakes
Posted by admin on October 10th, 2009
If you have ever listened to the news, or read a magazine, you may have heard a great deal about protein shakes and unfortunately in the media, they do get a bad shake (forgive the pun). The important thing is that these shakes are essential to reaching your bodybuilding goals.
When you hear bad things about these shakes, it is usually tied to someone who replaced all of their normal meals with the shakes, essentially going on nothing more than a liquid diet. Obviously for anything other than a short period, this isn’t healthy.
Serious bodybuilders understand that it is extremely difficult to eat as much high quality protein as you want ans this is where protein shakes come into their own. They are highly convenient, giving you a high quality protein source with minimal carbs in an easy to drink form. Furthermore, bodybuilders have a one hour window after a workout to consume a meal with carbs and protein, in order to enhance muscle growth, and slow down or stop muscle breakdown. That isn’t enough time to shower, change clothes, get home, and cook a meal…or even to get to a restaurant to order a meal. Therefore, they arrive at their workout with an after workout shake in hand, and consume that shake immediately after the workout – and often before the shower.
When you are trying to get in 6 plus meals a day, a high quality protein can really help. Preparing and eating 6 full meals a day is extremely time consuming and taking a couple of shakes a day really makes a difference. When you have a quick break at work or study, you can though down a shake to help meet your requirements.
The good thing about today’s shakes are that they mix easily in water, taste great (especially good news if you tried them years ago and are very high quality protein (I personally stick to the WPI (Whey Protein Isolate) and casein varieties)