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Is protein powder really useful for fitness?
Useful, but not necessary.

Why do you say that? First of all, you have to find out what effect protein powder has on fitness and supplement protein, right? Then why do you have to supplement protein powder?

This is probably the biggest advantage of protein powder: convenience and speed.

Protein powder is purified and refined. Compared with the high-protein food in daily diet, it has fewer impurities, which is beneficial to the body's better absorption. Moreover, the proportion of amino acids in protein powder is adjusted reasonably, which is very close to the needs of human body.

So under what circumstances is it good to drink protein powder?

1. If the interval between training and eating is two hours, you can drink some protein powder.

You eat less protein food in your daily diet, so you can drink some protein powder.

The above are useless answers about fitness and protein powder. Next, let's take a look. Why protein powder is not necessary?

As mentioned above, the biggest advantage of protein powder is to quickly and conveniently supplement protein for you and promote your muscle growth. What is the principle of muscle growth? Destroy muscle fibers-supplement nutrition (high protein)-rest and recover.

If your strength in training is not enough to destroy muscle fibers, what's the use of adding it? Do you think drinking protein powder will grow muscles? If so, why go to the gym?

Therefore, if you are a primary fitness enthusiast, protein powder is not necessary. Don't listen to some fitness coaches bragging that eating protein powder grows fast ~ Maybe he can eat it (provided he has enough training), eat three meals a day normally, try to ensure enough protein, improve his training ability and exercise level in the early stage, and then consider whether to drink protein powder.