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How to Gain Muscle By Eating NO Protein

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learn how to manipulate your protein intake to literally force your body to add muscle mass you can gain 4 to 5 pounds of fresh new muscle in only 10 days!


Protein intake is absolutely crucial for building muscle mass. It is what muscle tissue is made of. So how can you possibly gain muscle by eating NO protein?

To help answer this question, we need to first look at a training technique known as carbohydrate or carb-loading. Carb-loading is used primarily by endurance athletes to increase glycogen stores in the muscles beyond what the body will normally store. This increased fuel storage equals greater endurance. This phenomenon is known as "supercompensation" and it is very well documented.

The basic technique for carb-loading involves first eliminating carbs from the diet for several days while continuing to train hard. Training is then reduced and the athlete eats large amounts of carbs, in effect "loading" the muscles with glycogen (stored carbohydrates). Since the body has been deprived of carbs, it reacts to the extra carbs by greedily holding onto every last one it can. This technique can result in glycogen stores up to 1 1/2 times greater than normal.

But what does carb-loading have to do with eating no protein and gaining muscle? Everything.

In the context of supercompensation, imagine the result if you were to remove protein from your diet for a day. Just like with carb-loading, your body will react by greedily holding onto every last bit of protein it can. But here's the major difference: when accompanied by appropriate training, unlike with carb-loading where the extra carbs are burnt for fuel, you can convince your body to hang onto that extra protein permanently. How does this happen? By using it to build muscle, which is the primary storehouse of protein in your body.


How To Do It:

Note: before I tell you exactly how to do it, please keep in mind that I am not a medical doctor or nutritionist. This information is for educational purposes only and you should always consult your physician before making any major changes to your diet.


The technique consists of 3 phases: lead-up, protein deprivation, and supercompensation. These phases work synergistically to produce the conditions for very quick muscle gain.

In a nutshell, the lead-up phase consists of your training and diet for the several days before the protein deprivation day. The protein deprivation day is simply a day without protein. The supercompensation phase is the nutrition and training techniques you will use to maximize the rebound off the protein deprivation day.

I first encountered this technique a number of years ago in the writings of Leo Costa Jr. of Optimum Training Systems. He originated this theory after noting that farmers in Bulgaria would rotate protein in and out of the diets of their livestock to improve the amount and quality of the meat in the animals. He applied this technique to humans and weight training with amazing results!


Phase 1 - The Lead Up

There are several ways you can go about leading up to your protein deprivation day.

The first way is to continue with your regular diet and training right up until the day you do the protein deprivation technique. Take it relatively easy on your training - work hard but don't push yourself. Take a full day (or two) off training the day before you do the protein starvation day to make sure you're fully rested.

The second method involves temporarily restricting your carb intake before the protein deprivation day. (It is important to check with your doctor before restricting carbs in your diet, especially if you've never done it before.)

Basically, during the 3 days leading up to your protein deprivation day, you will keep your carb intake to around 30 to 50 grams per day (don't change anything else in your diet, just reduce your carb intake).

Restricting your carbs will deplete your body's glycogen stores, forcing it to rely more on fat and protein for energy. Remember the example I used in the beginning of the article about carb- loading? In the supercompensation phase, you will see how restricting then reloading your carbs, when properly combined with protein deprivation, can really shock your body into new muscle growth.


Phase 2 - The Protein Deprivation Day

This is the day that will set up the supercompensation, muscle-building phase. Essentially, you will be eating only fruit today - nothing else. You will be completely eliminating protein (and fat, incidentally) from your diet. What are the results of this? Your body uses up its protein stores and, just like in carb-loading, this creates an urgent need in your body to store the missing nutrient when it gets it again.

Eat as much fruit as you want on this day - apples, oranges, strawberries, bananas, whatever. You don't need to limit your intake at all. As long as you keep eating fruit, your body will use up its protein stores (known as the free amino acid pool) and set up the supercompensation phase. Also, eating only fruit for a day is very cleansing to your body. You may even find this day helps your digestive system function better.

As far as training goes, you have several options:

1. You can take a day off training. Depending on how your body reacts to protein deprivation, you may not feel like training at all. This is fine. You'll still get the effect of the protein deprivation, just not as strongly as if you were training.

2. Do a normal workout. Train the way you regularly train, treating the day as just another day in your exercise routine. Working out will help to increase the effect of the protein deprivation day by creating an even more urgent need in your body to hold onto protein.

3. Break it down hard. To maximize the supercompensation effect of the protein deprivation day, train for maximum muscle breakdown. Use heavy, basic exercises and really push yourself, e.g. use exercises such as squats or deadlifts, bench press, bent-over rows, shoulder presses, barbell curls and dips. Training like this on a protein deprivation day will send your body into a panic. It will really be ready to suck up that protein!


Be very careful when training on the all-fruit day for the first time. You may not have as much strength as you normally would. Be sure to eat a lot of fruit or drink fruit juice immediately after you've completed your workout. It is also important to drink a lot of water on this day as your body will be flushing out a lot of toxic byproducts from the system.


Phase 3 - Supercompensation

This is the phase you've been waiting for. You've just finished depriving your body of protein for an entire day and it's ready to start sucking it up.

The first day is the most important day. Start your day with a protein shake (if you have that available) immediately upon waking. Every meal you eat today should be very high protein. To maximize the effect of the protein deprivation day, you should try to eat at least 1 gram of protein per pound of bodyweight MINIMUM (i.e. if you weigh 200 pounds, eat 200 grams of protein). If you can eat more, do it.

Continue eating very high protein meals for the next 3 to 5 days. Your body is in the process of reloading with protein and you want to make sure you give it as much as you possibly can (just like with carb-loading). Your body will be supercompensating for the protein deprivation day by grabbing and holding onto a lot more of this protein than it normally would.

Now you must train to consolidate into muscle the extra protein your body is holding on to. For best results, you will need to train hard and heavy. Utilize basic exercises such as squats, deadlifts, bench presses, etc. for sets of 6 to 8 reps. Because of the protein deprivation and supercompensation effect, your body will be looking to hold onto a lot more protein, i.e. muscle mass, than usual.

Now, remember in Phase 1 where I described a restricted carb version of the lead-in phase? Here's where it really shows its power. Not only are you doing a protein-load in the third phase, you will also be doing a carb-load! What does that mean for you? It means even greater muscle growth.

When you eat carbs, your body secretes the hormone insulin. Insulin is the body's major storage hormone. It helps the body store carbs. It helps the body store fat. But, most importantly for us, it also helps the body store protein. By restricting carbs for a few days, you sensitize your body to carbs and insulin.

Here's why this is important: you've just eliminated protein from your diet for a day and your body is ready to suck up every last bit of protein it can. Now you can also flood it with carbs (and insulin) which your body is now more sensitive to because of your previous carb restriction. The result: your muscles take up even more protein, which means you can gain even more muscle very quickly!


Conclusion:

It's truly amazing what an incredible effect purposefully restricting or removing a major nutrient such as protein (or carbs) can do for muscle growth. Your body is greedy. It doesn't like to be deprived. By taking something away, you can fool your body into holding onto a whole lot more of it when you bring it back.

With the techniques described in this article, you can add pounds of new muscle to your body in a very short period of time
 
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learn how to manipulate your protein intake to literally force your body to add muscle mass you can gain 4 to 5 pounds of fresh new muscle in only 10 days!
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That goes against every thing i have ever read/studied/ been tested on. Your body does not work in the manner he describes it. You don't super compensate and "suck up protein". Your body is going to get what it needs when it needs it, and if you don't feed it the protein your body needs, then your body will hydrolyze muscle / tissue and get what it needs and make you lose weight/muscle because of it. And since when is one day enough to cause such a drastic change in physiology in regards to nurtition?

My bet is that if you try this you get really tired and your immune system gets weaken, you lose weight and muscle, and when you do what he calls "re feeding protein" nothing out of the ordinary occurs. Your body structures are made out of proteins, your body does not super compensate when protein is deprived it breaks down your tissues to get the amino acids it needs and then builds proteins from those amino acids. Its called gene expression( Transcription and translation). Nothing else can be used but amino acids to make the proteins your body needs. And if you want to speed up muscle building speed up protein synthesis and increase insulin levels so all the fats sugars and amino acids can pass into your cells and be used.


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That is one of the worst articles i've ever read.

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I give this article a two thumbs up your ass.
 
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i think Tim will like this article :iorofl:
 
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lol damn..harsh. yea, amino acids are how it works. need i say more? it's impossible to build muscle with zero protein. but hey, nice indie article..it gets the attention it wanted.
 
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People who want to gain muscle mass often forget the importance of squats. Squats are of the most important exercises for those who want to gain muscle mass. You are only as strong as your legs so if you expand your leg muscles you can be sure that the rest of your body will follow. This is because the thighs are the largest muscles in your body. If you want big arms make sure that you do squats and dead lifts
 

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If you totally erase proteins from your meals, regeneration of your muscles will take much longer.
 
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Go for a really hard workout, using heavy, basic exercises and really pushing yourself.
 
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I would say lifting heavy weights builds muscle- but you do not need to eat pounds of steaks and chicken to do this, although active people need more protein than sedentary people, to help with muscle repair and recovery. They say you need to get 12 to 18 percent of calories from protein, and this will be enough for a bodybuilding lifestyle.
 
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Seriously, I'm not sure if it's proper to take out protein from your meal and still look forward to building your muscles. How would it work? Wouldn't there be any side effects?

Even though exercising helps, something like weight lifting but you still need your protein and lots of carbs as well.
 
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This reminds me of a guy in the circus who is very lean but with nice muscles that were not so big. If you know CM Punk, the circus guy has the same lean body. He is not a performer but just a hand in the circus. When I pointed out his nice muscles he said that it is due to his workout and eating corn all day. He is a vegetarian and it is easy to understand why he is turning into corn. But I am not saying that it is good to build muscles without the aid of protein. You need meat particularly beef.
 
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The only way of naturally gaining mass for me is to eat meats and that means to load on protein, this goes hand in hand with workouts. I really don't understand why a person would deprive himself of protein if he wants mass, it's illogical.
 
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I think we, Asian people eat less protein. Most of us are skinny but have stronger bones. We have healthy thick hair. And if we work out our muscle looks good. They say 0.8 per pound of body weight every day is all you need, but I don't know.
 
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I think we, Asian people eat less protein. Most of us are skinny but have stronger bones. We have healthy thick hair. And if we work out our muscle looks good. They say 0.8 per pound of body weight every day is all you need, but I don't know.

They do eat less, it's even very obvious with what they eat in their daily lives. I have watched several Asian movies and lots of food they eat are maily noddles and light food.
 
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When we work out our muscles, it breaks down. Then, cells rush in to repair the damage and making the muscle grows stronger. The body uses amino acids, which are the components of the protein, in repairing the muscle cells but adding more protein in your diet has no effect in muscle built up. Rather, it may put other bodily systems under stress. Eating more protein and increasing total caloric intake while doing the same routine workout will build an equal amount of added fat and muscle mass.
So, we still need protein to make our muscle stronger but too much is unnecessary.
 
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