Protein and Muscle Building
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I've noticed a lot of people talking about lower requirements for protein recently. The mainstream bro advice is 1g per lb of bodyweight. Ray always recommended over 100g but towards the end I've heard clips of him referencing as low as 50g, I've heard this could be because he thought it was less important at older age and with a more sedentary lifestyle.
There's a few people now saying around 0.8g per lb or even as low as 0.6g per lb is optimal and there's no benefit beyond that.
But when you look at the monster bodybuilders, Mr Olympias like Phil Heath, Jay Cutler etc. they seem to promote huge amounts of protein 400-500g per day, hitting 1.6-2g per lb of bodyweight. They all seem to swear by it and feel it's important and beneficial.
Is there benefit to these super high numbers, if you wanted to build as much muscle as possible across a 12 week bulk, would you benefit from going to 2g per lb for that time and then coming back down during maintenance or would it be better to just dump all of those calories into carbs.
Has anyone experiment with these kinds of numbers and have you seen any benefits?
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@Androbolic 1g/lb of BW is unneccesary in most cases, even for bulking. Bulking/building muscle is an energy intensive process so you're better off focusing on carbs and saturated fats to support metabolism and energy production.
Caloric surplus is king.
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@cokefiend Yeah I agree, focusing on reaching your energy requirements with lots of carbs is the main thing. For muscle building there isnt really any reason to go over 1-1.2g/kg
