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Bodybuilding Protein Foods

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The best bodybuilding protein foods you can eat are from natural sources.  To transform your body you need to lock-in a sound diet, do cardio, and weight train.  But, the real secret in dieting is to get in enough of the right protein.  Let’s face it. Without eating complete protein in every meal, you won’t maintain or build muscle.

I’m going to share with you a few tips and secrets used by the top bodybuilders as well as some of the short cuts they use to look absolutely stunning.

The Construction Material

Your muscles don’t build and grow in the gym when you are training them with weights. No way. The real muscle building process takes place outside of the gym, AFTER you have worked out. Your muscles will grow only if you weight train, follow it with a meal that consists of complete protein, and get proper rest. The actual growth process takes place when your muscles are at rest.

Training + Eating High Protein Meals + Rest = Muscle Growth

It’s really that simple. It is extremely important for you to know that If you weight train and don’t eat protein or eat insufficient amounts of protein, you won’t build as much lean muscle as you need to compete. So, eat your protein.

Eat More Meals To Transform

Yes, eat more to transform your physique. In fact, it’s a good idea to eat about your body weight in protein. So, if you are 130 pounds you should eat about 130 grams of protein a day.

That would be kind of hard to do in the basic 3 meals a day format. Therefore, have several small, yet balanced meals a day. If you eat 5 meals a day, that breaks the 130 grams of protein up into 26 grams per meal. That’s much easier to eat! Be sure to group your protein with a carb so it is a balanced meal.

Eat After Weight Training

So, eating 5-7 small balanced meals a day (all containing a complete protein) will give you a boost in the muscle building department. Now, another critical element in building muscle is your post-training meal.

After you train with weights your muscles are extremely depleted of glycogen. No biggie though. Just eat a meal that is rich in carbs and protein about 20-45 minutes after your workout. By taking advantage of this post-training window of opportunity you can increase protein synthesis by 80%!

Healthline.com states, “Getting in the right nutrients after exercise can help you rebuild your muscle proteins and glycogen stores. It also helps stimulate growth of new muscle.”  Don’t follow the trendy hype, follow the proven facts.

Bodybuilding Protein Foods to Choose

You want your protein to be a complete protein.  If the selected protein supplies all the essential and nonessential amino acids, it is a complete protein.  Complete protein sources include all animal meat and animal products, including poultry, fish, pork, beef, lamb, veal, eggs, and dairy. Be sure you are choosing lean portions of meat.  All complete protein contains some fat, with the exception of egg whites and tuna, which contain trace amounts.

Below are a few of the best complete protein choices:

Beef
Chicken breast
Cornish hen
Deer
Eggs
Ground turkey
Lean beef
Lean ham
Lamb
Ostrich
Quail
Raw dairy
Steak
Seafood
Turkey breast
Veal
Whey protein

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