Muscle Cannibalism

Here's one to get you started.

There's plenty more for those that look! But hey that's just me.

Great point, peoples requirements are heavily dependent on their own situations.

That's why I always recommend people don't take blind advice and research stuff for themselves

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11023001

Here's one to get you started.

There's plenty more for those that look! But hey that's just me.

Great point, peoples requirements are heavily dependent on their own situations.

That's why I always recommend people don't take blind advice and research stuff for themselves

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11023001

You should be taking either BCAAs during your exercise or maybe whey protein so that you have protein circulating in your system. Also you are over consuming sugar and under consuming fat during your exercise. Try replacing the sugars with MCT oil, whey protein, and superstarch.

You should be taking either BCAAs during your exercise or maybe whey protein so that you have protein circulating in your system. Also you are over consuming sugar and under consuming fat during your exercise. Try replacing the sugars with MCT oil, whey protein, and superstarch.

You should be taking either BCAAs during your exercise or maybe whey protein so that you have protein circulating in your system. Also you are over consuming sugar and under consuming fat during your exercise. Try replacing the sugars with MCT oil, whey protein, and superstarch.

Ummm No. Sugar is exactly what you need during endurance events. Too much fat will have most people making pit stops.

This is why endurance athletes use GU instead of olive oil packets.

I mainly asked the question because I am noticing that I am getting stronger in both my swimming and biking, but not in the gym lifting weights. When I look in the mirror, my muscles look more defined and somewhat bigger, but the overall strength has either fallen off or stayed the same as when I started dieting a month ago. Thanks for taking the time to reply. So far there have been some good responses, even with the lack of detail I provided.

You can eat more... But regardless your cardio exercises will hurt you performance lifting weights in the gym. I used to run marathons and stopped and nearly instantly 10 pounds of muscle pooped onto my body. I imagine you enjoy biking, swimming, etc so keep doing it, but you have to accept it will hold you back lifting

Instantly being 5-10 months? Even a young male os only going to build aboit 1-2 lbs. of muscle mass per months. Gains other than that are generally new work causing the muscles to swell and retain more water, or fat gain from eating in a surplus (and/or simply no longer engaging in catabolic activity).

I see a ton of people saying to eat more.
I'll follow up with "Eat more protein!"
Calculate 1.7g per pound of Lean Mass.
Spread your protein out during the day into 30g doses.
http://suppversity.blogspot.com/2014/01/it-does-matter-how-you-spread-your.html
Why?
Having the added amino acids circulating during the day will signal the body to not break down skeletal muscle for the fuel.

Why 1.7?

Looks like a cobbling together of the .7g and the 1 gram suggestions and pounds thrown in for good measure. Not fun for the kidneys and probably soem very expensive urine to boot.

1.7g of protein per pound of lean mass may seem on the high side for a normally active person (1g is probably a good average), but as the OP is highly active he will need more.

However there is not evidence that too much protein is bad for a healthy kidney. In fact dealing with the metabolic waste from protein is what makes them strong.

There is circumstantial evidence that too much may worsen a kidney with a pre-existing condition, but it certainly won't be the cause of that condition, and will not cause a condition in a health kidney,

Also if you do consume too much protein than you need, all that will happen is the excess will be converted into glucose. Which will either be stored or burnt.

However as the poster of the 1.7g amount was aiming his response to the highly active OP, it's probably fairly accurate.

Thanks to everyone who has replied. I kept meaning to jump back into the conversation, but it had so much momentum that I didn't want to break it. I must say that posting something in these forums and reading the replies certainly fast tracks your learning curve. I think I've learned more about nutrition over the past two days than I learned the whole year I trained for an ironman. Anyhow, I tried to increase my protein intake yesterday, and almost hit my target for the day, which would be the first time since I started my diet that I was even within 50 grams of the maximum allowed. I am mainly getting my protein from protein shakes at the moment, as I just haven't found a way to ingest substantial amounts of protein without overdoing the cholesterol. I'm just glad I don't have to ingest 340 grams of protein per day :drinker: .

I mainly asked the question because I am noticing that I am getting stronger in both my swimming and biking, but not in the gym lifting weights. When I look in the mirror, my muscles look more defined and somewhat bigger, but the overall strength has either fallen off or stayed the same as when I started dieting a month ago. Thanks for taking the time to reply. So far there have been some good responses, even with the lack of detail I provided.

You can eat more... But regardless your cardio exercises will hurt you performance lifting weights in the gym. I used to run marathons and stopped and nearly instantly 10 pounds of muscle pooped onto my body. I imagine you enjoy biking, swimming, etc so keep doing it, but you have to accept it will hold you back lifting

Instantly being 5-10 months? Even a young male os only going to build aboit 1-2 lbs. of muscle mass per months. Gains other than that are generally new work causing the muscles to swell and retain more water, or fat gain from eating in a surplus (and/or simply no longer engaging in catabolic activity).

I see a ton of people saying to eat more.
I'll follow up with "Eat more protein!"
Calculate 1.7g per pound of Lean Mass.
Spread your protein out during the day into 30g doses.
http://suppversity.blogspot.com/2014/01/it-does-matter-how-you-spread-your.html
Why?
Having the added amino acids circulating during the day will signal the body to not break down skeletal muscle for the fuel.

Why 1.7?

Looks like a cobbling together of the .7g and the 1 gram suggestions and pounds thrown in for good measure. Not fun for the kidneys and probably soem very expensive urine to boot.

1.7g of protein per pound of lean mass may seem on the high side for a normally active person (1g is probably a good average), but as the OP is highly active he will need more.

However there is not evidence that too much protein is bad for a healthy kidney. In fact dealing with the metabolic waste from protein is what makes them strong.

There is circumstantial evidence that too much may worsen a kidney with a pre-existing condition, but it certainly won't be the cause of that condition, and will not cause a condition in a health kidney,

Also if you do consume too much protein than you need, all that will happen is the excess will be converted into glucose. Which will either be stored or burnt.

However as the poster of the 1.7g amount was aiming his response to the highly active OP, it's probably fairly accurate.

Well... Instantly was about 2 to 3 months as I remember. Bench went up about 30 pounds or a little more. I hadn't made very much gains lifting weights in 2 years prior and when I greatly reduced cardio the weighting progress for pretty dramatic for 3 to 4 months before leveling off