Do You Need Post Workout Protein to Gain Muscle?

December 12, 2012

Brad Pilon in my opinion is the authority on protein intake. Today he put up an article about a study where post workout protein is mainly beneficial for those who train in a fasted state. If someone has protein an hour or two before training, this post workout protein is not as vital.

Some highlights of the post:
However, on piece of research is too interesting for me not to share with you today… Most research conducted on the acute muscle building affects of post-workout protein have two interesting thing in common – they measure protein synthesis as a marker of muscle growth and the subjects in the studies are almost always fasted at the beginning of the study.
Typically, the people in a study that is examining the anabolic affects of post-workout protein show up to the lab after an overnight fast, then will fast for an additional hour or two […]

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