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Uplift · 05-16-2007, 10:48 AM

Check out that Mahler site, he answers the exact question regarding vegetable sourced proteins.
Bluntly, plenty of people have advice about gaining muscle that have never actually done it. As soon as they try, they learn like every one else, that it has to be manufactured from something. It's not complicated at all. It's ridiculously obvious. If you weigh 80kgs the amount of what you are eating supports that weight, body composition and activity level. If you want to weigh 90 or 100, or 120kgs and so on, it is going to take an increased activity level of a very intense nature, to convince your body of the need for more muscle (unless you are happy for it to be blubber). So if you want more muscle, you need considerably more building material, and repairing material, and maintenance material - or protein, considerably more energy for everyday function of your growing muscles, plus the extra exercise, again with growing muscles - or carbs, and more good fat, for essential and ideal body functions, including the hormone profile and levels that produce and support growth. 40/40/20 is a guide, as long as the intake is high enough, otherwise it is nothing but important sounding numbers. Whether you are big or small isn't really a big deal, it's up to what you feel like doing... but, the facts are, little guys have been trying to tell big guys for years that they eat too much protein...and the big guys just keep getting...BIG! Just keep health in mind, whatever your goal is. Between 1 and 2 grams per kg of body weight is constantly, real world proven to be enough protein to grow and be super fit and healthy. You also need plenty of other nutrients - vitamins, minerals, enzymes, antioxidents, and other micro nutrients found in good, healthy food, for your body to funtion and grow and repair healthily. Don't forget water, you'll need more of that too. It's all just common sense.

05-16-2007, 10:48 AM	#7 (permalink)
Uplift Banned Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 734	40/40/20 of nothing = NOTHING!!!! Check out that Mahler site, he answers the exact question regarding vegetable sourced proteins. Bluntly, plenty of people have advice about gaining muscle that have never actually done it. As soon as they try, they learn like every one else, that it has to be manufactured from something. It's not complicated at all. It's ridiculously obvious. If you weigh 80kgs the amount of what you are eating supports that weight, body composition and activity level. If you want to weigh 90 or 100, or 120kgs and so on, it is going to take an increased activity level of a very intense nature, to convince your body of the need for more muscle (unless you are happy for it to be blubber). So if you want more muscle, you need considerably more building material, and repairing material, and maintenance material - or protein, considerably more energy for everyday function of your growing muscles, plus the extra exercise, again with growing muscles - or carbs, and more good fat, for essential and ideal body functions, including the hormone profile and levels that produce and support growth. 40/40/20 is a guide, as long as the intake is high enough, otherwise it is nothing but important sounding numbers. Whether you are big or small isn't really a big deal, it's up to what you feel like doing... but, the facts are, little guys have been trying to tell big guys for years that they eat too much protein...and the big guys just keep getting...BIG! Just keep health in mind, whatever your goal is. Between 1 and 2 grams per kg of body weight is constantly, real world proven to be enough protein to grow *and be super fit and healthy*. You also need plenty of other nutrients - vitamins, minerals, enzymes, antioxidents, and other micro nutrients found in good, healthy food, for your body to funtion and grow and repair healthily. Don't forget water, you'll need more of that too. It's all just common sense.