Should you build muscle with whole foods or liquid meals?
An important question before beginning any weight gain program would be how much you should rely on protein powders, also known as liquid meals.
You may assume that you can simply drink protein shakes and build muscle, but there are at least a couple of reasons that you should get most of your calories from whole foods.
You must remember that protein powders and similar products were developed because of their convenience and should be used as supplements and not as the core of a diet. You need to consume sufficient vitamins, minerals, fiber etc. if you wish to build muscle as quickly and efficiently as possible.
If you expect to achieve top results in your muscle building program, you must keep your body in the best shape possible. This requires a variety of quality foods in your diet, and drinking shakes by themselves is simply not a substitute for proper nutrition. Not to mention, many shakes are full of sugar and are just simply not healthy for your muscle or overall body.
Another reason why you don’t want to depend completely on these liquid meals is because you’re going to get tired of eating the same thing over and over again. The taste is usually a bigger motivation than health for most people, and these protein shakes are going to get boring after a while!
If you want to get the best results possible out of your weight lifting program (as well as keeping yourself healthy overall), you’ll want to get over 60% of your food from quality solid food and not from protein shakes.
So let me ask you – are you counting on weightlifting supplements to make up for a poor diet or inadequate training? You would do better to save your money and focus on the fundamentals instead of looking for a shortcut. So many people have found out the hard way that taking muscle building supplements (or weightlifting supplements) is not a shortcut to gaining lean muscle mass.
Protein powders are helpful, but they’re not entirely necessary if you’re doing a good job already. It is possible to eat enough and train hard enough to build significant amounts of muscle without any supplements at all.
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