@Anpuankhses your well-crafted query is worthy of a reply every bit as magisterial that will pull back the curtains of uncertainty and allow the brilliance of truth and reason to light the darkness upon which you currently find yourself surrounded by. But first accolades on your choice of protein. Pure Whey is pretty clean and is absorbed by the body quickly. It can also be mixed with a variety of liquids from just water (as that gift bestowed upon us from the heavens and - on occasions - from the very bowels of the Earth) to any variety of milk you care to like - plant-based or otherwise.
What every battle alchemist should know (but sadly they do not) is that ultimately what you're doing here is altering the body's perception of bioavailability and energy management. By adding an easy-to-absorb protein supplement to your diet you're using a potion to help solve the body's perennial problem: when and how to allocate the building blocks of strength and muscle to help you level up, without restricting your body's ability to do other things such as battle environmental hazards, get rid of toxic waste, break-down cells (catabolic process) and build new ones (anabolic process).
In this context many a supplicant offer a small sacrifice to the heavens to help show them the way to these three questions:
- How much protein to take?
- When is the best time to take it?
- How often to take it?
The most up-to-date almanacs from the pre-eminent sages of our times suggest that when it comes to quantity you should be aiming for a minimum of
1.6g/kg of bodyweight. It used to be thought that excess amounts of protein were not used by the body or led to undesirable side-effects particularly when that protein came from animal sources but a new study suggests that when it comes to protein ingested in a pure form excess amounts are still useful for
muscle synthesis.
For such a long time that it almost became canon the troubadours of the digital muscle-building forums would wax lyrical about the need to ingest protein during the so-called "anabolic window" the 30 - 50 minutes post-exercise when the muscles were best poised to make use of protein for muscle synthesis. Within that there were also some guidelines about protein-priming where a lighter protein drink would be taken pre-workout. This is the "dose-response" argument which, however, has been found to be truly valuable for women whose bodies truly experience an anabolic window but not for men whose bodies have a more stable hormonal profile and can therefore use protein to build muscle throughout the day.
Male warriors of this plane, apparently have internal systems that respond equally well to the "
dose-response" approach and the "
total amount of protein available in the day", one. Taking enough protein for your needs is therefore more important than worrying when you should take it. And
@graoumia remembers well. If you take some protein before bed, it helps with sleep and also
muscle synthesis and repair as the bulk of that happens while we sleep.
Getting into the habit of supplying your body with what it needs in order to change, repair and get stronger you are essentially sending it a signal that says: There is plenty of energy here, every day. It then becomes much more likely to allocate resources to build muscle and repair tissue, every day, leading to small, incremental improvements, all the time.
I hope this completely answers your questions but never hesitate to tag me back and ask anything that you think could be improved with more explanations or better examples.
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