Google is not clear on this topic. For example if my daily protein intake is 100g and I go over it does it make me grow bigger muscles or recover faster?
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Assuming you’re talking about post-workout, protein is required to repair the micro-tears to your muscles that occurs. [edit: It’s also through this repair process that the muscles gain bulk]. If you don’t have sufficient protein it will slow recovery AND reduce the ability to put on muscle bulk. If you eat more protein than is required it will just be used as a source of energy, but you err on the side of more to ensure minimal workout effort goes to waste.
Think of your muscles like a building that’s being built. The building needs concrete. If the builders run out of concrete while they’re working one day, they have to stop working that day until they get more concrete. So the building process will progress more slowly.
But if they receive more concrete than they need, they’re not necessarily going to build faster. They can only build at a certain speed, because generally concrete availability isn’t the limiting factor on building speed. It just takes time. And since concrete has to be fresh to be usable, they’ll end up throwing away any excess. It will go to waste.
Protein is like concrete. When you work out and tear down your muscles, your body needs to rebuild them (and will rebuild them stronger so they can better handle the stress you’re putting on them). Protein is an essential ingredient in repairing / building muscle. If you don’t provide your body with enough protein, it can’t rebuild as fast or as well as it could. But providing too much protein won’t be beneficial. Your body will just break it down and use it for energy or turn it into fat.
neither, if your protein needs are being meet.
Getting adequate protein is necessary to facilitate both muscle growth and recovery. But only to a point.
One the body is getting all the protein it needs, eating more won’t come with additional benefit.
Think of it like gasoline.
Putting the octane your car needs in it will allow it to run as intended. If you put 88 octane gas in an engine indented for 93, it won’t run correctly – you’ll get misfires, less compression (and therefore power) than it’s designed for, etc..
Putting 93 octane in car build for 88 will do nothing.
Basically both.
If you are training and not getting sufficient protein you muscle won’t grow at their optimal rate, and recovery from exercise will take longer.
But if you are just sitting still all day then eating some protein isn’t going to get you jacked.
they’re the same.
Muscle fibers get damage with a workout.
Proteins are needed for recovery.
Other comments mostly cover everything. But, muscles don’t grow from microtears. Muscles detect mechanical tension and send out messages to trigger muscle growth.
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