Ask a Fitness Model - Page 40

Right now for example, I am doing UD2.0 and there's no way I would hit the nutritional partitions without protein shakes. In fact, Lyle pretty much told me that as a vegetarian, it would be very difficult for me to do UD2.0 but I am determined to prove him wrong.

i will argue that with the caloric deficit i've been running, i would never have preserved this much muscle without all the protein i'm eating, @ 325g/day

So kunk you're still doing the CKD right? What role does the heavy protein intake play in all of this. Some of it is used for muscle synthesis but the rest....does the body use that for energy instead of breaking your muscles down? Does it subsequently slow down muscle breakdown? Or does it direct your body to use more fat for energy, or what.

yeah, theory being fat is being utilized as energy.

Looks like those are referring to protein synthesis which is actually a different thing from increased muscle mass. There's a lot of confusion about the two. Yes, that seems to be the same conclusion Brad Pilon made. Once minimal protein requirements are met, any additional amounts of protein consumed do not yield an increase in muscle mass. Excess protein ≠ increased muscle mass. Yes. Whatever you want within reason. Eat real foods. Eat a wide variety of foods. Enjoy food. Eat a wide variety of different types of cuisine. I like Micheal Pollan's basic suggestion. "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." 70 - 120 grams per day is fine depending on your calorie intake and body weight. Not necessarily. Carbohydrates are necessary and not always bad. Fats are necessary too. At least the "right" kinds are.

Sorry my man, but apparently even you do not have to supplement your diet with protein shakes.

Here's Brad's answer to your question:

far from it my clueless friend.My goal is to achieve overall balance and symmetry,that is why i admire physiques like frank zane,surge nubret and early flex wheeler...but i am limited by my structural deficiencies

You're an idiot and proved my point.

Doesn't really prove anything but nice shirt. Edit: btw, do you have the source for that prison study? I'm very curious about it. Thx in advance

Can you link me to any of the studies on pubmed?

I'm a little demanding on my sources, and for the first study I'd like to know what exercises they're doing and how long they were on the program. For example, if they were doing curls and calf-raises and all gained 5 lbs total lean mass over the course of 5 weeks, then this proves nothing.

The second program doesn't really doesn't prove much since 120g of protein is still on the high scale and is a few times more than an average person consumes. Also, it really doesn't apply to most people since I assume we're not on steroids and that's one factor that's hard to ignore.

In any case, 70g+ of protein is a pretty good number and I'm surprised vegetarians can stay above that daily without much trouble (considering I used to eat less protein than that on my high-carb diets).

don't mind why, he's probably one of those guys that squats in the curl rack btw, how'd u get such jakt veins in ur arms bro?!

frank zane's music by his band, In Zane, is next level.

Zane is the one of my favorites as well. Here he is at age 60! May we all look half as good at that age!!

Your request involves too much work on my part. I suggest you just buy the ebook and do as much research on the studies cited as you want.

Lance, which ebook are you referring to? Maybe you mentioned it earlier in the thread - I browsed back a few pages but couldn't find it - probably my error but if you have a link handy, I would appreciate if you could post. Thx!