subject: Building Muscle With Whey? [print this page] Many people spend a long time looking for the best whey protein powders for bodybuilding, but then don't put any energy into actually working out or eating a balanced diet. Yes it's true that you can get your best results from using a powdered protein supplement, but it is actually the last thing you should be looking for after you have your eating plan and workout routine in place.
Your diet should be made up of very high protein foods, which is why using a whey supplement or creatine can be effective. But first you should make sure that your eating red meat, cheese and drinking full fat milk. Then when your getting enough from your diet, you can start to look at other ways to get more elsewhere.
You should also not neglect your carbs and fats completely. I know it's preached in many places that you must cut your carbs and fats right out and whilst they mean well they're setting you up for failure. What you need to do is eating half your body weight in grams of carbohydrate and 0.2 x your body weight in grams of fats.
The reason that you must do this is because if you don't your metabolism will crash and you won't be building muscle for a long time. Trust me, I've seen it happen. You see, many of your bodies functions depend on fats and carbs and when you suddenly stop getting them your body will not be able to cope.
You will especially need them when your exercising so make sure that you consume most of your daily intake around the workout (roughly half before and half after). Which brings me to the next thing you need to get in order before you start using whey protein powders - your workout routine.
Believe me, if your just taking supplements and your not exercising then you will almost certainly get fat! And considering the aim is to build lean muscle mass, that would be very counterproductive. So you must be doing a full body workout routine when your taking these products.
Try and see if you can plan out your workout routine and diet plan now, so that you can start thinking about what kinds of supplements you might want to start taking on top of these. But remember, get the diet and workouts sorted out first so that you don't actually put on fat instead of muscle.
