What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the real bodybuilding podcast. This is episode

number 90 and I'm here with Dr. Brad Schoenfeld, PhD in exercise science and he's

going to help us learn a little bit more about what we're doing wrong in our bodybuilding careers.

How are you, sir?

I'm good, how are you?

I'm good, I'm good.

I wanted to get you on because there was a lot of brosines out there and I follow you on Instagram and I notice you

commenting on some of it sometimes and you put up a lot of good studies and things like that

so I thought it'd get you on to kind of clear up some of the myths of bodybuilding in the bodybuilding world.

That's what I do, so I'm looking forward to it. All right, so I want to get started with some of the basics. And one of the things that's always

been a question that has arisen is protein and the amounts of protein and how much people should get in.

What is too much? What is enough per meal? Those kind of things. So I guess we'll start there.

For, is it different for a natural lifter

versus an enhanced lifter?

And does it vary in whether somebody is an advanced lifter or a beginner?

Yeah, those are great questions.

So I'll take the second question first for natural lifters. It's actually interesting that some studies show that you actually need somewhat less protein per day as you get more experience with resistance training. You think the opposite, but there is at least some

evidence that your body gets more efficient at being able to use the proteins that you're taking in

for building muscle.

I still am not totally sold on some of that evidence

and I would say probably doesn't make that much of a difference.

But I would also say it certainly wouldn't make you more needing you wouldn't need more protein for more advanced. However, you might need more and I actually we published a paper failure recently on this if you are a hardcore bodybuilder and you're doing especially with high volumes where there's a lot of turnover at least hypothetically you might need a somewhat higher protein. The general consensus is you need somewhere between 1.6 to 2.2 grams per kilogram per day, which comes out to a little, around a pound per, if you're in America,

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