Almost went face first into the floor:
If I took a pic and posted it here, you would accuse me of photoshopping. That's how much bubble it had.
I'm getting 120+ grams of protein on a great day.
How many cals a day?
. I use reason #4 above.
and demands more food intake.Four reasons the protein belief exists:
1) Bro science
2) Dogma
3) Steroid abusers need more protein because their body is able to partition it towards muscle building in greater amounts than natural lifters
4) "Too much" is always better than "too little" so people like to play it on the safe side and eat more than normal just in case
I don't want to look up the studies right now so I might be slightly off in my numbers, but I believe that the numbers are 0.8g-1.2g per kg of bodyweight is the range that has held up to scientific scrutiny.
So for you at 214 lbs, the numbers that science tells you for protein would be a range of 77g to 116g per day. You can choose to believe what a magazine or gym bro tells you instead, but understand that they are telling you that because they heard it from a gym bro or magazine who heard it from a gym bro or magazine who heard it from a gym bro or magazine etc etc etc.
I believe the highest scientifically supported number for a natural lifter that I have seen is 1.5g/kg, so that would be 145g for you. The fact of the matter is that our body can only synthesize a certain amount of muscle per day, and adding a ton of protein consumption on top of that usage just flat out does not help.
That being said, I still eat around 180g per day at 165 lbs
though. Them little tiny pre-workout scoops are only 1/4 the size of this oneBeing doing the same with C4, Assault and a few others.I'm gonna preface this by saying that I fully believe that in most pre-workouts, the caffeine is really the only ingredient that really matters. Popping a caffeine pill or drinking a cup of coffee before a workout will get you 90-100% of the same results as any other pre-workout (other than the ones with the borderline illegal stimulants of course).
That being said, as a social experiment I decided to try out what some call the best pre-workout on the market. It is dumb-expensive so I would never use it regularly, but I got it out of curiousity:
http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/jym/pre-jym.html
I've been taking a pre-workout and adding BCAA's already and am rather tolerant to them, but I definitely have noticed a difference with this one.
shyt has be focused like a motherfukker (could be the additional 100mg caffeine above what I normally have). shyt has me hot and sweaty as a motherfukker. shyt makes me push so hard when squatting that it feels like my ass is going to explode out of my pants.
Its pretty nice. If you got a little cash to spare, I would recommend giving it a shot. The serving size is
Brilliant. Take an existing product and market it to the Paleo crowd and charge way higher per serving than a bulk purchase. Bravo cyclists. Throw in some pseudoscience to oppose the nutritionist telling you that your product is not anything special and bam, Kickstarter gold
