I wanna hear your take on this bro.
New thread time!
im on my way out to watch football at my bros but i'll give some food for thought cause i know how antsy you get when you think you might be going catabolic
for the past, what, 20-30 years supplement companies have made billions perhaps on the sale of protein powders? with everything else online and in gyms, the 'common knowledge' is 1 gram per lb of bodyweight. nobody ever questions common knowledge. thats why when gal and i came out w our book the idea of ultra low cal dieting and fasting was preposterous- its was 'common knowledge' this kind of dieting would result in a very noticeable decrease in lean tissue, which we've, and others who have tried it, have more than proven thats just bullshit.
thats the beauty of 'common knowledge' for supp companies- they dont even have to sell it- its common knowledge you need a ton of protein and everyone blindly drinks the koolaid, like they do with all the other tidbits of common knowledge we all follow and never stop to ask why or question it. holy fuck dont question common knowledge.
so we get locked into the mentality that we NEED x amount of protein . you'll go catabolic. you'll minimize gains, the muscle wont repair blah blah blah.
lets use halos example of the natty eating 300 grams of protein a day. why? as a natty what the fuck do you need that much protein for? IF you needed that much protein why is it after a certain amount of time training your gains slow to a crawl? you dont grow anymore. thats simple fact. negligible improvements. every natty whos has trained truly clean will tell you this happens.
if the amount of protein consumption was the key for tissue growth, why cant the natty keep growing? the stimulus is there. the repair is there. the protein is there. everything you need to do you are doing but the gains stop. but yet every natty continues to pound down ludicrous amounts of protein that is doing NOTHING to keep him gaining tissue.
then i guess the amount protein isnt the key, is it.
now in an enhanced bber does this change? i would have to say yes. in the natty once you hit that genetic set point you are fucked. might as well relegated yourself to knowing the biggest you are now is the biggest your ever going to be, so just improve what you have. the anabolics user kinda gives credence to needing a certain amount of protein continually whereas the natty doesnt since as long as you increase the dose, you keep growing. so the ability to create tissue beyond your genetic set point using anabolics shows a correlation to protein intake. once you stop creating tissue, why are nattys eating 300 grams of goddamn protein a day? has anyone stopped to say 'fuck, why am i doing this anyway?' no. they havent cause you dont question common knowledge.
common knowledge keeps us afraid to step outside the box and try something different.
so, ask yourself, why do you eat the amount of protein you eat?
