Proteins By: Dylan Page

Questions Specific What are proteins? More Specific How do you take proteins when you work out? Even more Specific How do Proteins benefit you while you workout? Questions

Protein is a nitrogenous compound which you can find in plants animals that, when hydrolyzed, converts to amino acids required for the making and the repair of body tissues and the source of heat and energy. What is Protein?

How much should you take in? The amount of protein you take depends on your weight. People have been taking protein as early as the 50’s but they didn’t take highly processed product and they took different amounts. The amount an average person needs is 1 gram per 100 pounds of body weight (for instance if you weighed 200 pounds the minimum amount of protein you would need to take in would be about 2 grams of protein for muscle growth. Any additional protein that goes over the daily minimum for muscle gain just helps to speed up the healing process if you have had any injury’s. If you are a body builder and take high amounts of protein it will not benefit that much where as a novice weightlifter would benefit greatly from the high amount of protein this happens because the bodybuilder uses their strength and practice over time when the novice weight lifter uses the protein they took in to help with the lifting. How much should you take in?

Protein is made for the production of muscles they are also used to build up hormones, enzymes, cellular messengers, nucleic acids, and immunes system components. Without good protein our bodies can’t put together the structures that make up every cell, tissue, and organ in our bodies, nor can it generate the biochemical substances needed for cardiovascular function, muscle contraction, growth, and healing. Without the right amount of protein in our bodies our muscles wouldn’t heal up as fast and could therefor lead to overtraining your muscles which could possibly lead to injury’s. If you are a body builder and take high amounts of protein it will not benefit that much where as a novice weightlifter would benefit greatly from the high amount of protein. Novice weightlifters use the most protein since they are adding muscle most rapidly. Benefits

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