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A few researchers, notably Alan Aragon and Brad Schoenfeld did a lot of analysis on protein timing research a while back and the general conclusion is that as l
by lhl 4y ago
A few researchers, notably Alan Aragon and Brad Schoenfeld did a lot of analysis on protein timing research a while back and the general conclusion is that as long as you get enough protein during the course of the day (or within a few hours of your workout), basically it doesn't matter so much.
Sources:
Aragon, Alan Albert, and Brad Jon Schoenfeld. “Nutrient Timing Revisited: Is There a Post-Exercise Anabolic Window?” Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition 10 (January 29, 2013): 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/1550-2783-10-5 https://doi.org/10.1186/1550-2783-10-5.
Schoenfeld, Brad Jon, Alan Aragon, Colin Wilborn, Stacie L. Urbina, Sara E. Hayward, and James Krieger. “Pre- versus Post-Exercise Protein Intake Has Similar Effects on Muscular Adaptations.” PeerJ 5 (January 3, 2017): e2825. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2825 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2825.
Schoenfeld, Brad Jon, Alan Albert Aragon, and James W Krieger. “The Effect of Protein Timing on Muscle Strength and Hypertrophy: A Meta-Analysis.” Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition 10 (December 3, 2013): 53. https://doi.org/10.1186/1550-2783-10-53 https://doi.org/10.1186/1550-2783-10-53.
Schoenfeld, Brad Jon, and Alan Albert Aragon. “How Much Protein Can the Body Use in a Single Meal for Muscle-Building? Implications for Daily Protein Distribution.” Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition 15 (February 27, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12970-018-0215-1 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12970-018-0215-1.
There are some interesting wrinkles (like Leucine intake in particular), and I'd recommend looking at what Stuart M Phillips and Donald K Layman have published as additional places to spelunk from for anyone that's particularly interested in the topic.
- fartsucker69 4y agoThis has mostly arrived in the consensus of sports training. General advice is to have protein surplus in the 24 hours after training (if you train every day, like an athlete, that means every day). Plus if you're training but want to lose at the same time, you need a caloric surplus for a while to have your muscle regenerate and grow, but it's totally possible to gain muscle and lose weight at the same time. But basically each calory that you're in deficit will make your muscles grow more slowly, so it's definitely harder than being on an overall surplus.
- dragonelite 4y agoAfter doing a 4 hour eating window for years eating at around maintenance and had some cheat meals over the weekend. It kind of kept my weight stable but my strength hardly increased so seems my anecdotal experience kind of seems to match that report. I also heard somewhere it could take like 24~48 hours for all protein sources to be digested and extracted from your bloodstream so you might have like a constant amino acids drip into your bloodstream but i never really checked this.
- vjk800 4y agoThis makes more sense than "you have to eat protein within one hour from exercising". Why? Because wouldn't it take a lot longer for the protein to get digested in your body? Possibly many hours, depending on the source of protein. And if, after exercising, I'm still digesting protein I've eaten several hours earlier, what difference can it make if I add some more that will just get digested several hours later, provided that the total amount of protein is kept constant.
- nradov 4y agoYes Don Lyman's research has shown the same thing. Timing of protein consumption doesn't matter very much. The important thing is to consume a large bolus of at least 40g during a single meal rather than spreading it out in little snacks throughout the day. https://peterattiamd.com/donlayman/ https://peterattiamd.com/donlayman/