Okay, I’ll admit it. After years of searching for a protein powder that my digestive system could handle, I was ready to denounce supplements all together and take on the challenge of muscle building with nothing but a tuna steak and a fork. Granted, my unfortunate situation of being lactose intolerant certainly didn’t help my opinion of protein products, but how long and how many hundreds of dollars was it going to take before I found a powder that I was completely satisfied with?
Protein, as you may or may not know, is essential for optimum muscle growth. Made up of amino acids (the building blocks of muscle), a sufficient amount of protein puts your body into a nitrogen surplus, or an anabolic state, where the magic of muscle growth occurs. Without amino acids, it wouldn’t even be possible to maintain, repair or build muscle. The old adage says that in order to build muscle, a weightlifter should consume one gram of protein per pound of body weight a day, regardless of whether or not it is a training day. You can eat all the egg whites, tuna and steaks you want, but the fact is that without a protein supplement its going to be difficult to achieve that total without compromising other aspects of your diet.
For this reason, I began my long and arduous search to find a powder that not only agreed with my stomach, but also tasted good. After years of trying various products, I recently decided to give Cytosport’s Muscle Milk a try and let me say that I would highly recommend it to anyone looking to build lean muscle mass and lose body fat. Clearly Cytosport is not paying me to endorse their product, nor are there any affiliate marketing links provided here for which I could make a commission. The bottom line is that the product works, you get results and it tastes great.
The key is that Cytosport has combined both whey and casein protein in an effort to emulate the natural milk of a nursing mother, which some say is the gold standard anabolic formula. Muscle milk attempts to keep your anabolic window (the time in which protein synthesis occurs in your body) open longer by releasing a combination of whey (faster acting) and micellar caseins (releases protein, peptides, and amino acids more slowly). Perhaps more importantly for me is the fact that Muscle Milk is also lactose free, which allows me to digest it easily (a common complaint many weightlifters have about protein powders).
Anyway, that is my recommendation for those of you searching for an effective and tastey protein supplement. If you don’t want to take my word for it, listen to Atlanta-based trainer Corey Ritter of the Fitness Factor below…
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