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I've been both of these guys. In unrelated news, I fucking hate Subway™
WFH means more opportunity to go to the gym.
Manual laborers still waiting for OSHA required gear or paperwork signoffs or union negotiations or whatever. Idk, not blue collar.
Consumes 10 kg of protein
Shits once per month
I think your co-worker might be an anaconda.
Only if he don't want none unless you got buns hun
Ladies, if your boyfriend...
It makes sense. Sedentary lives encourage muscle loss so protein excess encourages retention. Labourers don't grow a ton of muscle working once they peak and need more calories from fat and carbs.
People need to stop thinking that excess protein intake when sedentary will develop muscle. The bottom line is that excess calories consumed beyond total daily energy expenditure will cause weight gain. And not the muscular kind of weight. Protein has 4 calories per gram so it's not a freebie diet food that magically builds muscle. It only builds muscle if you exercise. Not sitting on yer arse.
Yeah the current marketing obsession with protein just screams fad diet. Remember "super foods" where you try to throw certain nutrient dense ingredients into all of your food? Whatever happened to that?
The SuperFood fad is timeless wisdom. People who stick with that are golden.
Almonds, blueberries, quinoa, avocado, bone broth, walnuts, salmon, kale, spinach etc 💕
A cousin of mine who games all day started chugging protein for 3 years from 15-18. Dude became really bulky, like big, but not really muscular. Sometimes I genuinely can't tell if he's fat or 50.
I think a more correct term would be mass-growth, not muscle growth.
They didn't say it would cause muscle gain, they said prevents muscle loss. Those are two very different claims
True, I did notice that & apologize for not acknowledging that part. But they also said "excess" protein consumption. Excess protein intake will cause fat gain because that's what excess calories from any source will do. Another commenter said that excess protein will be pooped out as long as the person is getting enough calories & nutrients from other sources, so that's something I've never heard before, but the bottom line is that excess calories equals fat gain.
Depends on how you are defining excess. Excess of 2000 calories yes. Excess of the daily reccomended amount no not necessarily.
Really depends on their definition of excess
I got four hours of exercise today sitting on my arse
Flex yer glutes while sitting. Pump em up, do 20 sets of 20 repetitions, and get some amusement out of people's reactions as they walk by seeing you riding your invisible horse on your chair.
Protein has 4 calories per gram
Protein is only used as fuel in extremis, it's a dirty fuel and the body will poop what it doesn't need for repair if there's enough other calories coming in. Also only some amino acids are biochemically amenable to conversion to energy, whereas the 4cal/g figure is from burning it all in air. Protein does not turn into cake, you can however argue the excess is wasted, but how much is excess for a given individual is a hard question.
You're quite right about needing stimulus to grow, but the statement was about maintenance.
You can turn protein into cake I've done it
Haha yes fat ass joke
But on a serious note
That reminds me of one lady a few years ago who came to realize that her protein shakes were actually literally cake batter repackaged & labeled as a lie. Big scandal she uncovered and she outed that company until they stopped their crimes.
Not crimes to do that here but wasteful why not use cat litter
I do it about twice a week as I don't eat enough fiber.
Fair cop.
Perhaps, but nobody in this thread argued it built muscle, only helps retain it if you're sedentary.
This right here. I would eat 3500-4000 Cals a day and LOSE 5 to 10 lbs over the course of field season.
When I worked a physical job outside in cold weather (sub-freezing temps) it was closer to 7-8,000 calories per day and I would still lose 5-10 lbs in 3 months.
I put it back on in the spring.
Then lost it again in the summer as the heat suppressed my appetite.
Then gained it back in the fall as the temperatures were more pleasant.
And repeat...
I'm a scrawny guy and i work the trades. I pulled some old equipment up some guys stairs alone and left it outside for him to dispose of. The guy had arms the size of my thighs. He genuinely asked me if I thought he'd have a hard time moving it into his trailer.
Id ask that sort of question to learn whether there are any considerations I wouldn’t offhandedly know about. We had an air compressor that DID NOT like being stored tilted. It would tolerate being tilted while moving, but would loudly complain for a few minutes after it started. I think we settled on a gasket being loose
Don't compressor motors have a lubricant oil sump at the bottom and rely on being upright to work properly? It kind of sounds like you were running it dry, before the oil had a chance to get back where it was supposed to be.
Yeah, pretty much all of them are built that way, and if they get tilted you're supposed to wait an hour at the absolute barest minimum, preferably 4-6, and ideally 24 hours, because the oil can work its way into the bits that actually compress and if you turn it on with barely compressable oil in the parts that are meant to compress gas it can just die
These sorts of things are why I ask open ended questions now. You could be right about the actual cause
He is. The general rule of thumb is that any device with a compressor should remain off for twice as long as it was tilted.