Protein powders to help up intake for vegetarian

KickingButt
KickingButt Posts: 75 Member
in Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
ok guys/ladies... I am trying to increase my protein intake because obviously im doing something wrong (no improvements)
I was told to try a protein powder since im vegetarian.. the two suggested to me was isopure and epic... anyone have any experience with either of these? im trying to gain, but maintain the lean... so I am trying to avoid anything that will pack on fat...
I need advice :p thanks

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  • brdnw
    brdnw Posts: 565 Member
    If you want to gain start lifting and take protein 30 min within ur workout. You'll definitely see results.
  • ZoeLeighJackson
    ZoeLeighJackson Posts: 7
    If you want to gain start lifting and take protein 30 min within ur workout. You'll definitely see results.

    Does it particularly matter when you take protein? I've started take my powder in the morning with my breakfast and in the evening in skimmed milk primarily to make me feel fuller for longer.
  • brdnw
    brdnw Posts: 565 Member
    If you're lifting your body needs it within 30 minutes of your workout. It's also good to take at night before sleeping. Your muscles repair while you sleep and use up your protein during that time so your body because protein deficient over night, so then likewise when you wakeup you'll be deficient of protein then too. So those are the times I take protein powder and I've discussed this w people at my gym that do actual body building competitions and that are insane shape and they do this as well.
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    If you want to gain start lifting and take protein 30 min within ur workout. You'll definitely see results.

    Does it particularly matter when you take protein? I've started take my powder in the morning with my breakfast and in the evening in skimmed milk primarily to make me feel fuller for longer.

    perhaps not

    http://bayesianbodybuilding.com/workout-nutrition-is-a-scam/
  • brdnw
    brdnw Posts: 565 Member
    If you want to gain start lifting and take protein 30 min within ur workout. You'll definitely see results.

    Does it particularly matter when you take protein? I've started take my powder in the morning with my breakfast and in the evening in skimmed milk primarily to make me feel fuller for longer.

    perhaps not

    http://bayesianbodybuilding.com/workout-nutrition-is-a-scam/

    If you lifted you'd know how incredibly wrong that is.
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    ok guys/ladies... I am trying to increase my protein intake because obviously im doing something wrong (no improvements)
    I was told to try a protein powder since im vegetarian.. the two suggested to me was isopure and epic... anyone have any experience with either of these? im trying to gain, but maintain the lean... so I am trying to avoid anything that will pack on fat...
    I need advice :p thanks

    the type of protein powder isn't going to make you fat. I use a 100% WPI and WPC, unflavoured, unsweetened - personally, I don't like the artificial taste of the others, and my body doesn't agree with aritificial sweeteners.
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    If you want to gain start lifting and take protein 30 min within ur workout. You'll definitely see results.

    Does it particularly matter when you take protein? I've started take my powder in the morning with my breakfast and in the evening in skimmed milk primarily to make me feel fuller for longer.

    perhaps not

    http://bayesianbodybuilding.com/workout-nutrition-is-a-scam/

    If you lifted you'd know how incredibly wrong that is.

    I think I've lifted, and competed in bodybuilding. maybe I was just dreaming....that doesn't explain the trophies though...
  • brdnw
    brdnw Posts: 565 Member
    It'd really depends on the type of protein and when you take it. Protein that breaks down slowly is good for overnight, where like whey protein is best for after a workout bc it absorbs quicker.
  • CipherZero
    CipherZero Posts: 1,418 Member
    If you want to gain start lifting and take protein 30 min within ur workout. You'll definitely see results.

    Does it particularly matter when you take protein?

    Not in the least. Meal timing is broscience.
  • loulamb7
    loulamb7 Posts: 801 Member
    Not 100% sure but I believe Garden of Life Protein is vegan. I use their Raw Meal Replacement formula. The meal replacement is higher in calories, but they also have a protein product that is not a meal replacement. I use the cocoa product and get it on Amazon.

    Optimum Nutrition also has a "natural" product. But ON's natural reference may be that there are no artificial sweeteners in the product.
  • gamerkiwi
    gamerkiwi Posts: 93 Member
    If you want to gain start lifting and take protein 30 min within ur workout. You'll definitely see results.

    Protein timing doesn't matter.

    At all.
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    If you want to gain start lifting and take protein 30 min within ur workout. You'll definitely see results.

    Are you referring to the anabolic window...because that's pretty much bs.

    http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1550-2783-10-5.pdf
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    If you want to gain start lifting and take protein 30 min within ur workout. You'll definitely see results.

    Does it particularly matter when you take protein? I've started take my powder in the morning with my breakfast and in the evening in skimmed milk primarily to make me feel fuller for longer.

    perhaps not

    http://bayesianbodybuilding.com/workout-nutrition-is-a-scam/

    If you lifted you'd know how incredibly wrong that is.

    lolololololoooooooooooool
  • Hauntinglyfit
    Hauntinglyfit Posts: 5,537 Member
    If you want to gain start lifting and take protein 30 min within ur workout. You'll definitely see results.

    Dude, no offence, but you're full of broscience.
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    If you're lifting your body needs it within 30 minutes of your workout. It's also good to take at night before sleeping. Your muscles repair while you sleep and use up your protein during that time so your body because protein deficient over night, so then likewise when you wakeup you'll be deficient of protein then too. So those are the times I take protein powder and I've discussed this w people at my gym that do actual body building competitions and that are insane shape and they do this as well.

    I would check this out as well....these guys kinda do bb'ing...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6wkDDnSKV0
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    This may help re protein:

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/926789-protein-sources



    If you bulk, you will gain some fat - keep your surplus to a moderate level and you will minimize it. If you are looking to maintain LBM and lose fat - eat to a reasonable caloric deficit, get enough protein (1g per lb of LBM as a minimum) and do a progressive loading strength training routine.
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    If you want to gain start lifting and take protein 30 min within ur workout. You'll definitely see results.

    Does it particularly matter when you take protein? I've started take my powder in the morning with my breakfast and in the evening in skimmed milk primarily to make me feel fuller for longer.

    perhaps not

    http://bayesianbodybuilding.com/workout-nutrition-is-a-scam/

    If you lifted you'd know how incredibly wrong that is.

    In...

    ...for the education.
  • MJC360
    MJC360 Posts: 368
    Garden of Life RAW Protein is pretty good. Also I know people that like Vega Sport and Peaceful Planet Rice Protein a lot.
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    Re protein powders - I like Optimum Nutrition 100% whey and Trutein (which is a blend).
  • mustgetmuscles1
    mustgetmuscles1 Posts: 3,346 Member
    If you want to gain start lifting and take protein 30 min within ur workout. You'll definitely see results.

    Does it particularly matter when you take protein? I've started take my powder in the morning with my breakfast and in the evening in skimmed milk primarily to make me feel fuller for longer.

    perhaps not

    http://bayesianbodybuilding.com/workout-nutrition-is-a-scam/

    If you lifted you'd know how incredibly wrong that is.

    In...

    ...for the education.

    You have to lift to gain the knowledge. The education will come from the moving of weights. Go straight to the gym and be enlightened.
  • davert123
    davert123 Posts: 1,568 Member
    From a multisport perspective it appears that the data on protein consumption within 30m of training is the same. I've looked a some of the links here though and one spoke about carb consumption within 30m doesn't do anything either. I take it that this is just from a muscle building perspective. The research I've seen for glycogen refueling does seem to indicate that eating soon after exercise does have benefits (mainly if you are planning on doing additional training in the same day) . It appears that after endurance exercising when glycogen levels are low the muscle sucks up carbs and re-synthases glycogen about 300% faster immediately after exercise than a couple of hours after

    http://jap.physiology.org/content/64/4/1480.short
  • mustgetmuscles1
    mustgetmuscles1 Posts: 3,346 Member
    From a multisport perspective it appears that the data on protein consumption within 30m of training is the same. I've looked a some of the links here though and one spoke about carb consumption within 30m doesn't do anything either. I take it that this is just from a muscle building perspective. The research I've seen for glycogen refueling does seem to indicate that eating soon after exercise does have benefits (mainly if you are planning on doing additional training in the same day) . It appears that after endurance exercising when glycogen levels are low the muscle sucks up carbs and re-synthases glycogen about 300% faster immediately after exercise than a couple of hours after

    http://jap.physiology.org/content/64/4/1480.short

    That is true but it does not really effect the vast majority of us. Glycogen stores would be replenished over the next 24 hours anyways with just regular eating. So unless you have a second workout in the day or multiple events it is really not worth worrying about.

    Here is a quote from Alan Aragon in regards to their recent meta-analysis on timing that I think is a pretty important point.
    ...some folks will read the abstract of our meta & conclude that protein timing doesn't matter. That's not what we concluded, and the full text makes that loud and clear. What we did find, however, was that the existing data collectively does not support an "anabolic window" as narrow as the traditional dogma has claimed it to be. Alan Aragon

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