I think this is a very legitimate question, as protein powder seems to be all the rage when we are first introduced to the world of fitness. Everybody seems to be consuming it – and there are a ton of different brands.
And I mean a ton, marketed towards highly specific niches; vegan lifters, female lifters, elderly lifters and the list goes on.
But is protein powder actually worth it?
If you go around your local gym telling people they can increase muscle mass gains by consuming fish oil, they will probably present you with a weird look. Nonetheless, there might actually be some truth to that seemingly crazy, random claim.
Because when combining the outcome of a very recent study with several older ones, a theoretical case for the otherwise unknown muscle building effects of fish oil intake can be made. This is quite surprising to me, as this is not a beneficial attribute to daily fish oil intake I have come across before.
This post will outline a very rough guidance to how you can;
1) ramp up your pre-vacation training massively to promote a larger frame of supercompensation and recovery (during your vacation)
And;
2) use a short workout which you can do pretty much anywhere – to further negate any negative impacts from excessive eating and chilling at the pool (can the latter be done excessively?).
Annoyingly, it still isn’t common practice to instruct overweight/obese people to also lift weights instead of only hammering the treadmill.
And it’s a shame, because if you’re overweight and focus more on lifting weights than just cardio, you’ll likely be much better off!
As far as physical improvement go, dieting seems to be the main culprit of failure for many people. Thus, learning how to adhere to your diet is among the most important aspects of physical mastery.
This goes for all corners of the spectrum; young bros trying to lose some fat for whatever purposes (mainly impressing homo sapiens sapiens of the opposite sex), post-4-pregnancies women who after a long and stressful process wants to slim down, and actual competing bodybuilders and physique athletes wishing to bring the best conditioning to the stage.
One of the many psychological factors of prolonged dieting most people experience, is the ever increased mental obsession with food. While we in some degree usually consider ourselves to be more dedicated and disciplined as far as taking care of our bodies and diets than the mainstream masses, week in week out of strict dieting will takes it toll.
Go back just a decade and the thoughts of going for extended time without eating for the purpose of improving bodyrecomposition was deemed idiotic. Gymgoers would tell you that your body would “eat up all your muscle”, and that skipping meals (even if just breakfast) would mess up your metabolism. Oh and something about the body only being able to utilize 30 grams of protein pr. meal, and so on and so on.
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