There has always been a saying that fitness can be practiced for three points and eaten for seven points. Although it is a joke, it can also explain the importance of diet for muscle exercise. For many bodybuilders, it is often difficult to reach the normal diet level, and the appearance of fitness supplements has indeed made many bodybuilders get more adequate nutrition. Among all kinds of fitness supplements, protein powder can be said to be the most used by bodybuilders. Whether in fitness circle or bodybuilding circle, professional bodybuilders or amateur bodybuilders, most bodybuilders regard protein powder as the preferred intake source in protein.

However, quite a few people have some misunderstandings about protein powder. Many people think that protein powder is harmful to health, and even many people think that protein powder can promote muscle gain. As long as you start eating protein powder, you can grow muscles, and even the muscles trained by eating protein powder after fitness are "dead muscles." Is this statement really correct?

First, protein powder and muscle gain

Many people think that protein powder and clenbuterol are the same thing. They think that protein powder is actually a kind of muscle growth hormone. As long as you can eat protein powder, you can grow muscles crazily and finally become a fitness muscle man. But in fact, protein powder is just an ordinary food rich in protein. If you simply eat protein powder without fitness training, you won't grow muscles. It can be said that protein powder is not directly related to muscle growth.

Second, the so-called "dead muscle"

The so-called "dead muscle" has no scientific basis. Muscle is muscle, there is no difference between life and death. There is no difference in essence whether it is through equipment fitness or unarmed fitness, or through running, swimming and other sports. The function of protein powder is only to increase the content of protein in human body, and there are no ingredients that affect the essence of muscle.

Third, the harm of protein powder

The reason why there are so many criticisms of protein powder is because most of them are made by people who don't exercise. Many people don't touch fitness and protein powder. They just see that many fitness muscle men drink protein powder every day, so they think there is some inevitable connection between protein powder and muscle. But even if you don't eat protein powder and only eat ordinary diets such as beef, chicken breast and eggs, muscles can grow normally.

As many people say that protein powder is harmful to the kidneys, in fact, protein powder is just a kind of food in protein. Even ordinary meat contains a lot of protein. Eating too much meat and eating too much protein will still cause burden and damage to the kidneys. It is not that protein powder will definitely cause damage to the kidneys. People with healthy kidneys will not do harm to their health even if they eat a lot of protein powder.

Do you think there is a gap in muscle building efficiency between eating protein powder and not eating protein powder?