S7 EP24: How To Eat For Muscle
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Do you know how to eat to maximize muscle mass? Eating for gains can be confusing, especially if you’ve been trained to eat for losses. For most women, we've been told to eat less and run more. Gaining muscle requires us to eat, and gaining muscle is also going to do more to get us to our goals than shrinking ever will. In today’s episode, Rachael and Kelsea discuss how muscle is built, why a caloric race to the bottom is a bad idea, and why muscle gain is a long game, not something that happens quickly.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- How to eat to maximize muscle mass
- How muscle growth can help with joint pain
- Breaking down muscle to build it up
- Protein’s specific job in your muscles
- The race to the bottom with calories
- Why it can feel so scary to eat for gains
- Muscle gain as a long game
- Eating after training
- Looking at what else is in protein supplements
- What can happen if you don't give your body enough fuel
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | do the things in the gym that you want to do. |
| 0:02.9 | And that's why when we look at these plans that cut out specific macronutrients and call |
| 0:10.0 | them the enemy, right? |
| 0:12.1 | It's like, okay, but here's the thing, that had a purpose and whatever it was you've |
| 0:19.6 | now eliminated. |
| 0:20.7 | And Kelsey's going to check about the quality of macronutrients is everything. |
| 0:24.7 | Obviously, the carbs from candy canes are not going to be superior to the carbs from a sweet |
| 0:31.0 | potato or broccoli or something. |
| 0:33.0 | We need to talk about quality first. |
| 0:35.8 | But proteins specific job in the repair of your muscles |
| 0:42.1 | is why we're going to talk about it in this episode most heavily, because when you're talking |
| 0:47.8 | about eating for gains, that's the macronutrient that you need to talk about that in amino acid. |
| 0:58.0 | The Bactin. That's the macronutrient that you need to talk about that in amino acid. The big question is this. |
| 1:01.0 | In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, |
| 1:06.0 | how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 1:10.0 | We are an army of hardworking women, changing their |
| 1:14.3 | lives through fitness and health. Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to |
| 1:21.5 | how to make working out and eating well a part of your life. Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 1:30.3 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:35.4 | Hi guys and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:38.8 | I'm Kelsey. |
| 1:39.5 | I'm Rachel. |
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