363: Everything You Need To Know About Protein + Myths & Questions Answered
Fit, Healthy And Happy Podcast
Colossus Fitness
4.9 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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In this episode we go over everything you need to know about protein. Answering all your questions, giving guidelines and breaking down myths. Don't miss this episode!
- What is protein?
- What does protein do for you?
- How much should you be having in a day?
- Most athletes who workout 0.8-1.3g per pound of bodyweight
- When maintain or gaining aim for 0.8-1g of protein per pound of bodyweight
- When cutting 1-1.3g of protein per pound of bodyweight
*What’s important to note here is the protein intake is scaled upwards with severity of caloric restriction and leanness. The higher the body fat percentage, the lower the protein intake can usually be compared to the total bodyweight.
4. What are the best sources of protein?
Questions/Myths:
-What about the anabolic window? Do I need it right after a workout.
-Can I have protein powder on a rest day? / Should I have less on a rest day?
-What should vegetarians do?
-What is an isolate protein? Are the tiktok proteins better?
-Is it bad to have most of your protein from shakes?
-How to easily incorporate protein when out?
-What's more important, my protein or my calories?
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on everyone? Welcome to another episode of the fit, healthy, and most of all happy |
| 0:05.6 | podcast. I'm your coach and host Josh here with his co-host and co-coach KG and I'm in the house. |
| 0:12.4 | And in today's episode, we're going to give you the 101 on protein, give you everything you need |
| 0:18.1 | to know, answering pretty much any question you might have about it, a question you might not even know that you have about it. And to give you everything you need to know, answering pretty much any question you might have about it, |
| 0:21.3 | a question you might not even know that you have about it. And to give you guidelines and most |
| 0:25.3 | importantly, breakdown myths, we want this to be incredibly informative. We did make sure to |
| 0:30.1 | utilize all the latest up-the-date science, but to break it down into a very digestible, easy to |
| 0:35.9 | absorb content or format rather rather because, you know, |
| 0:39.1 | this is a huge episode. This literally would save you probably like 50 hours of research. |
| 0:44.5 | So sit back, enjoy, and let's jump right into it. First off, what is protein, Kyle? |
| 0:49.5 | So the biggest thing starting off, just letting you know that protein is not just a powder. |
| 0:53.4 | A lot of people actually think that. And, you know, just to give you some more context that protein is not just a powder a lot of people actually |
| 0:54.5 | think that and you know just to give you some more context protein is one of the three macronutrients |
| 0:59.2 | and it's worth four grams of energy so when you think of macronutrients you're thinking carbs |
| 1:03.1 | fats and protein and protein has so many different benefits which josh is going to jump into but just |
| 1:08.4 | letting you guys know you, it can be supplemented |
| 1:11.1 | with a protein powder or shake and all that other stuff, but it is a macronutrient is not just a |
| 1:16.6 | powder. |
| 1:17.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.5 | So once again, the powder is no better than just food. |
| 1:20.4 | You can get it through a ton of sources. |
| 1:22.5 | So that is a big thing to get out of the way because some people get really stuck and the only |
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