Cheap Sources of Protein For Bigger Muscles

Eating enough protein is one of the most important parts of weightlifting, body building, or any other sport that requires anabolic exercise. If you are not eating enough protein, than your body is not getting enough of the building blocks that it needs to repair the muscle that you are so strenuously building by lifting weights.

Every time you lift weights you are creating small tears in each of your muscles that will hopefully be rebuilt into bigger, stronger muscles. Your body uses protein that you eat in order to rebuild these muscles. Think about how hard it would be to build a brick building using only wood! It would not work.

The FDA recommends that the average person eat roughly 60g of protein per day, but if you partake in weightlifting exercises then you should consume at least 1g of protein per pound that you weigh. At first, this may seem like a lot, but there are certain ways of meeting this daily requirement. A whey protein shake is one of them. Protein shakes generally come in a powder format and are ready to mix with a liquid of your choice. A protein shake generally provides about 30g of protein per serving and has roughly 100 calories. They are a great source of high quality protein, but you cannot realistically get all of your protein requirements from protein shakes (well you could, but your wallet would be empty and you wouldn't be that healthy).

Other sources of protein include tuna, beans, cottage cheese, milk, eggs, fish, poultry, and red meat. All of these things sound somewhat expensive, and some may not find that they taste too well. The cheapest sources of protein listed here are probably beans, tuna, and milk. You can buy the beans and cans of tuna in bulk, but must purchase new milk every week. The first problem can be solved by purchasing all of these items in bulk, but the second problem requires some skills that any serious weightlifter will develop over time: culinary skills. With the proper technique you will be able to turn these seemingly disgusting protein sources into delicious multiple course meals; without the proper technique almost anything can be made to taste good with the right amount of spices! Tuna can be made to taste delicious and unique with only a slight addition of mustard into the tuna can; beans can be cooked with rice and then spiced with a seasoning such as "Johnnies Seasoning Salt".