The function of protein powder is to supplement the protein needed for muscle building, and these protein can actually be supplemented by diet. Protein powder is not irreplaceable, but in contrast, protein powder is more cost-effective and more convenient to eat. Like other foods, such as beef and chicken breast, you can eat it only after it is cooked. It doesn't matter if you supplement it immediately after training in the gym, but protein powder doesn't have this concern. You can make a cup immediately when you want to drink.
One thing to note is that protein powder has no direct muscle building effect, that is to say, if you just eat protein powder and don't exercise, you won't grow muscles. The function of protein powder is to supplement the protein needed by the body, and because of its many advantages, many bodybuilders rely too much on protein powder now, but it does have a good effect. But some people will say that protein powder has great side effects. Once bodybuilders stop using protein powder, their muscles will be deformed. Is that really the case? People who eat protein powder for exercise, if protein powder breaks the net, what will happen to their muscles?
Muscle changes
In fact, if you simply stop eating protein powder instead of stopping fitness training, it will not affect your muscles. If you don't eat protein powder, you can also get enough protein from other diets to gain muscle. I won't say that muscles become smaller immediately after not eating protein powder. Protein powder is neither a hormone nor a medicine, but a supplement to protein's food. Therefore, even if bodybuilders stop eating protein powder, as long as they keep training, their muscles will not change.
Changes of muscle growth efficiency
Compared with protein powder, meat also has its advantages, that is, protein powder is more greasy, the taste of meat is definitely better than protein powder, and meat is more likely to feel full. However, more bodybuilders choose protein powder only because protein powder is more easily absorbed by the human body than protein in other diets, such as protein in meat, which requires a series of decomposition and digestion, and cannot directly provide muscles with the required protein. Therefore, after stopping eating protein powder, the muscle gain efficiency will be improved.
But nothing is absolute. In the final analysis, the choice of protein powder is more helpless. If every bodybuilder has money, I believe that bodybuilders will choose high-end diet to supplement the nutrition needed for fitness. The appearance of protein powder can be said to reduce the cost of fitness and muscle gain. Before the appearance of fitness supplements such as protein powder, fitness and muscle building were actually more of the projects of the rich.
Do you think if protein powder didn't appear, there would still be so many people who keep fit and gain muscle?