Is Whey Protein The Ultimate Bodybuilder Supplement?

Let’s face it, there are a thousand different bodybuilder supplements out there these days that all claim to do the same thing – allow you to build muscle mass and gain weight faster than ever before. While it’s true that there are supplements out there that can help you get to your goal of a more muscular body quicker than you otherwise would, it’s just not true that you need to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars a month on pills, potions and powders.

If you’re on a budget, but you still want to harness the power of bodybuilder supplements, then you need to take a look at the one supplement that I feel deserves the title of ultimate bodybuilding supplement…high quality whey protein. Not only is whey protein affordable and accessible, but when used appropriately you just can’t argue with the results!

When used in the right capacity, whey protein has been shown to not only help you gain muscle mass and increase your strength, but to improve your immune system and overall health at the same time. Without question whey protein has survived (in my mind at least) as the last bodybuilder supplement standing in the battle for ultimate muscle building supremacy.  Chock-full of vitamin, minerals and muscle building goodness, you just can’t beat everything that a high quality whey protein has to offer.

That said, what’s the best way to use whey protein for building muscle and gaining weight?

There are really no hard and fast rules when it comes to incorporating whey protein into your bodybuilding diet, other than keeping in mind that you’ve got to keep your supplemental protein down to a moderate level. I run across a lot of guys in the gyms that talk about how to love to eat 15 – 20 servings of whey protein a day!

I love whey protein as much as the next guy, but there is no way that eating 20 servings of supplemental protein is a good idea, even if it is one of the best bodybuilder supplements around. If you really want to get down to it, the muscle building (and especially weight gain) process hinges on building your nutrition plan around a solid base of whole food nutrients. 

Supplements are amazing, but only when their used as…supplemental nutrients. You need to be using them as supplements to an already solid whole food base.  When you learn how to do this, you’ll really harness the muscle building power of whey protein.

Here’s How I Use Whey Protein To Ensure Sustained Muscle Growth…

Realizing that you don’t need to flood your body with copious amounts of whey protein and not being able to afford to do that anyway, I tend to limit my whey protein and bodybuilder supplement intake in general to the times when I’m going to see the biggest benefit…pre, post and during workout nutrition.

There are a few reasons that I like to use whey protein as a pre and post workout bodybuilder supplement, but the biggest reason is that these are times when I typically either don’t have access to whole food protein sources or I tend to not have much of an appetite. As a rule, if I can choke down a chicken breast or any other type of whole food protein, I tend to go the whole food route. I just haven’t been too good historically at getting protein into my system pre and post workout unless I’m using whey protein.

If I’m really getting after it in the gym and I’m trying to build muscle mass aggressively, then I’ll typically slam down 2 scoops of a high quality whey protein concentrate blend like Optimum Nutrition's Gold Standard 100% Whey Protein. I drink 1 scoop about 1 hour prior to hitting the gym and the other scoop 20 minutes before lifting my first weight.

While I’m working out, I like to sip on a scoop of AST's VP2 hydrolyzed whey protein isolate mixed with milk. Nothing too fancy here, just enough to keep feeding fast acting high quality protein into my muscles throughout the workout.

Immediately after racking my last weight, I slam down 1 scoop of VP2 mixed with water and eat a banana. 20 –30 minutes later, I drink another scoop mixed with 2% milk and another banana. This combination of flooding my body with quickly absorbed muscle building protein during and after my workouts had proven to be an excellent way to force my body to build muscle mass fast.

When it comes to bodybuilder supplements, I really feel that keeping it simple is the best approach. Not only will you save a ton of money in the long run, but you’ll finally start to harness the true power of quality supplements. Remember…not even the best bodybuilding supplements can compensate for a crappy diet and lame workouts – learn to focus your efforts where you’ll get the biggest muscle building benefit, the fundamentals.  Then work a few bodybuilder supplements into your plan, you’ll be amazed at just how much muscle you can gain this way!

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