Protein raisez your testosterone therefore it may be considered cheating. Technically it still is in the grey area, so it is really a question of your morals at that point.
Protein raisez your testosterone therefore it may be considered cheating. Technically it still is in the grey area, so it is really a question of your morals at that point.
White Fox wrote:
I feel like this is a troll post? Eating more total calories would just be causing me to gain weight, yea?
No. As I already explained, protein takes more energy to digest. If you don't eat more calories, you'll lose weight.
The number I hear bandied around most is that protein raises caloric need by 20% of its own caloric content. So 120g of protein, which contains 500 calories, would require 100 extra calories to digest it.
Adding muscle mass also demands a tremendous amount of energy, far more than just the energy in the extra protein. Recovering from exercise and maintaining muscle mass, same deal. Tissue synthesis is metabolically expensive, so extra lean mass will raise your metabolic needs. Hard workouts raise your metabolic needs afterwards even if you have no net gain of muscle mass and merely replace what was lost.