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I'm your host, Josh, here with my confused co-host.

KG in the house.

Yeah, he looked over at me and I was like, wait, this isn't how it goes.

Everyone else is probably like, do my thing glitch out?

Oh, man, you got to have fun with it right

um i don't know how we keep making these different but we find a way anyhow today we have a really

great episode planned a quick little tidbit kind of giving you the breakdown the all you need to know

about protein recommendations how much protein should I be eating is a question

we are asked so much. Now, this is a super, super universal question. And the answer is every person

should be having completely different amounts and there's tons of considerations to keep in

mind. But our goal in this episode is to come up with some tangible answers or ranges of reason

that we think are the best currently and how you can implement them and how that should change

and scale over time and as you diet. So before we get into that, I have a question for Kyle

because this is a question people ask me all the time. Let's hear it. Like what is protein? What is

protein powders? Can I only have protein powders when I work out? I'm confused. So yeah, protein is literally no magic thing, although I'd say majority of people that do start their fitness journey. Hopefully a lot of you guys don't think this, but, you know, if you do currently, that's what we're here for and that's why we're making this episode. But a lot of times people think it's magic.

You know, they start working out and then we'll shoot me a text.

Hey, I'm at GNC right now. I've only done like three days of weight training. But, you know, what protein is best and stuff? And it's like, okay, relax. Like we need to take a step back here. But obviously protein is super important. it is a macronutrient and I would say it is the most important one for overall fat loss and muscle gain and just all that good stuff. It's the one that we always want to be tracking when we have our client sign up at the very beginning. We monitor the calories and then the protein at first because if you're having too little, you're going to just lose so much muscle mass. You're not going to be recovering properly. You're not going to be as full as you should be, all that good stuff. So it is just a simple macronutrient, and you can get it in so many different forms. You can get it from protein powder. You can get it from protein bars. Chicken, beef, beans. Like there's just so many different things. The list goes on. But I do believe that a lot of times people just don't understand either how much they should be having.

Some people have weight too little because they don't track it. And then when they hear about protein and they see these like big bodybuilders like Jay Cutler and like all this stuff having like 300 plus grams, they go out and have, I kid you not, like three times their body weight. And it's just absolutely insane. It's a waste of money. and that's what we're here for is we're trying to bust that myth

and let you know exactly how much you should be having.

Exactly. their body weight and it's just absolutely insane it's a waste of money and that's what we're here for is we're trying to bust that myth and let you know exactly how much you should be having

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