But for most friends who just start fitness and want to gain muscle, they often choose muscle-increasing powder, because the name sounds like muscle-increasing and it is much cheaper than protein powder.
As far as muscle building is concerned, which effect is better, protein powder or muscle building powder? This issue will briefly talk about this issue.
Need to know about supplements
For protein powder and muscle-building powder, it is not a magic drug or hormone, but a powdered drink that helps you eat nutritious food.
Moreover, its nutrients are also extracted from natural food, which is not a magic medicine and has no effect after eating it.
The key depends on whether the total amount of nutrients you consume is enough to meet the conditions of gaining muscle and weight.
As for the rumor that protein powder and muscle-building powder are harmful, it is just that the nutrients themselves are excessively consumed, just like drinking too much water will cause problems, not the problem of nutrient intake channels. (Of course, the problem of bad merchants is not ruled out, and it is best to choose big brands for food safety).
For protein powder and muscle-building powder, compared with food, only the intake channels of nutrition are different, both for supplementing nutrition.
Tonics, more role is to help reduce the burden of diet, so as to get better nutritional supplements.
Who gets more muscles?
So which is more beneficial to muscle gain, protein powder or muscle gain powder? It depends on your diet.
Protein powder is actually a kind of food whose main nutritional ingredient is protein.
Muscle-building powder is a kind of food with carbohydrate as the main component (usually carbohydrate accounts for 70%, 15~20% protein, and other micronutrients).
To put it bluntly, protein powder mainly supplements protein, while muscle-building powder tends to supplement carbohydrates.
So there is no absolute answer to who gains more muscle. It depends on whether you need to add more protein or carbohydrates.
As far as the function of bodybuilding muscles is concerned, protein is to form muscle tissue, and carbohydrates are more to help promote the synthesis of protein and provide energy for physical exercise.
Relatively speaking, protein's muscle gain is more significant, and our daily diet structure also determines that the intake of carbohydrates will not be too small, unless a person's appetite is really small.
However, even if protein is supplemented in place, insufficient carbohydrate intake will still affect the bodybuilding effect of muscles. What is lacking and what is supplemented is the most critical, rather than simply judging which one exercises muscles more.
But I can give you some advice.
How to choose
If your family conditions are good, you eat a lot of fish every day, have a good appetite, and your daily nutritional intake is not a problem at all, then you don't need to consider supplementing at all. Of course, supplements can also be used as drinks or snacks in case of emergency.
If you have a large appetite and eat several steamed buns at a time, but the dietary conditions are not very good, and the daily intake of protein is obviously insufficient for carbohydrates, then it is recommended to choose protein powder.
If you have a good diet, but you just don't like the staple food, then choose muscle-building powder to help supplement carbohydrates.
If the appetite is small, choose protein powder with the ratio of carbohydrate to protein of 1: 1. Help to add.
However, eating more meals is the basis for you to gain weight. If you want to gain muscle by taking supplements instead of eating, save some money.
Tonifying is only to share the pressure of eating, not to gain muscle after eating. Be sure to make it clear before using it!
But in general, protein powder is more recommended. After all, most people still have to consider protein's intake.