The importance of protein in your diet

 When it comes to high intensity workouts it is important to make sure our bodies have enough of the vital nutrients they require to keep going. If you don’t have a healthy, balanced diet then no matter how hard you workout or for how long you will never gain that muscle growth or loose that excess weight. Say, for example, your body had low levels of protein in it, protein is used for energy by the body during workouts, if there is not enough protein in the body it will start to break down muscle tissue which results in muscle loss. This is not what you want if you are trying to build lean muscles mass, protein also plays an important part in enabling a fast recovery as well as giving you higher energy levels.

Protein is only one out of many vital nutrients that the body requires to sustain itself throughout intense workouts, so imagine if you were lacking in all of them. It would be unlikely you could workout let alone the effect that would have upon your body.

There are a number of food sources that are rich in vital nutrients, protein can be found in chicken, tuna, eggs and dairy products, carbohydrates found in potatoes, pasta and bananas and fats which are found in products such as cheese and nuts. While all of these can be found in our daily diet they often are not enough to help us with long, high intensity workouts and as such we need to look elsewhere for supplements. Protein powder are often the choice of athletes who want to make sure they have high levels of essential nutrients before and during workouts and training. Bulk powders are easy to take, most coming in a milkshake form, and are the perfect thirst quencher after an intense workout. Bulk powders mean these nutrients are able to enter your bloodstream in an efficient way meaning your body has the energy needed for the workout as well as muscle recovery and repair afterwards.