Build Muscle with NO Protein

[BasalGanglia]

A read an article somewhere about going one day without protein so that when you start to eat protein again your body will store it permanently as muscle.

It suggests eating fruit for the day without protein and then eat regular high protein meals for the next few days. And also to train very hard and heavy with compound exercises. It also mentions adding a carb deprevation day just before restricting your protein for better results.

Has anyone ever tried this method and if so what were the results?

[supaman61]

Me too, i would like to know this if anyone's tried it.

[Aztech]

try it and tell me, i've never heard this theory

[supaman61]

Someone must have tried this? I dont want to be the guinea pig, im finding it hard enough to maintain my weigt as it is. I think if i ate fruit for a day i'd lose 3lbs.

[ecke70]

I´ve never tried it but I´m thinking it might be one of those things that look good on paper but doesn´t work in real life. I think the no protein day might offset the gains you make later. but give it a shot worst thing that could happen is that you don´t gain muscle.

[Suareezay]

Ive seen it very briefly mentioned (with a negative connotation) on other boards, but thats about it. I do remember reading a protein cycling protocol in Flex or some other muscle comic a few years ago, if that tells you anything.

I wouldnt be concerned with losing muscle or slowing gains due to not eating protein for a day. The human body is not that retardedly inefficient that your musselz will fall off after 24 hours with no direct protein.

If protein cycling were worth a damn I would have seen someone, somewhere who knew what they were doing implementing it, but I havent.

[maverickLA]

going one day without protein so that when you start to eat protein again your body will store it permanently as muscle.

It would seem very unlikely the human body would react this way. I would imagine your body would have to be very deprived of calories and already stripping amino acids to immediatlly store proteins as muscle tissue.

[president_fad]

Just like mentioned above, the effects of not eating protein for one day wouldnt do anything negative to your body, so how could a short break like that bring anything positive either? Now ive heard guys who do shows and diet hardcore for the days before the show, when they start eating again they put on LBS AND LBS, which makes sense because your body has been depleted of everything for so long. I couldnt imagine one day doing anything tho.

[mattd46612]

Ive seen a diet somewhere that had something like this but it was over 2 or 3 week periods. A few weeks on a low calorie diet followed by a few weeks high calorie. But its not popular so likely is ineffective.

[BasalGanglia]

If anyone is interested the full article is here :-

[url]http://www.fitstep.com/articles/muscle-building/direct/gain-muscle-no-protein.htm[/url]

[Suareezay]

If anyone is interested the full article is here :-

http://www.fitstep.com/articles/musc...no-protein.htm

i didnt make it past

You can gain 4 to 5 pounds of fresh new muscle in only 10 days!

no article with an opening line that full of bullshit could be worth the 5 minutes it takes to read it.

[ecke70]

the whole thing seems to be based on him thinking you can protein load the same way you would carboload.

as I said before. it sounds good

[JayC]

no article with an opening line that full of bullshit could be worth the 5 minutes it takes to read it.

Exactly! Sounds worthless to me.. Just my 0.02

[Easto]

How to turn eating food into Rocket Science.

I would rather eat a well balanced diet every day rather than trying to figure out half of these proposed diet theories.

Eat good whole foods!!!!

[ripper101]

I agree with Easto. Probably just a magazine filler!

[thekhan]

I never tried this but I read an article about it too.
It is calling "guerilla diet".As u know, guerillas has no chance to find food coordinately.
They generally eat vegatables and fruits to when they found meat.
I am gonna try it,I am not a pro

[mranak]

eat, lift, sleep. **** why do ppl over complicate this?

oh **** did I get the order wrong?

[Cunt Hunt]

Bro.....if it's just one day without protein I can see it possible working. This is an interesting concept.....I might actually try it one time.

Before I **** around with my diet and experiment...I want to try a cycle first though.

[jeremy02]

I am not sure about pertaining to only preotein, but I know when the human body is deprived of nutrients for a certain amount of time, which I imagine is longer then 24 hours, when the body recieves nutrients it will make an attempt to store as much as possible because of some sort of survival technique.


I think I heard something about this on Discovery Channel.

[Xoine]

retarded idea imo.

stick to protein heavy, clean food everyday

[american dream]

I am not sure about pertaining to only preotein, but I know when the human body is deprived of nutrients for a certain amount of time, which I imagine is longer then 24 hours, when the body recieves nutrients it will make an attempt to store as much as possible because of some sort of survival technique.


I think I heard something about this on Discovery Channel.

YEAH, BECAUSE THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL IS ALL ABOUT GETTING SWOLL AND STRONG AND EATING RIGHT

[FDW]

protein cycling makes sense. after a certain amount of time on a high protein diet your body stops assimilating it so well.

I know competitors who protein cycle, dunno how they do it exactly but the theory here is somewhat correct, tho the claims are clearly overstated, as is common on such articles

[teej]

i've heard of eating low protein for a week or two and when you get back on it stores better, but not cutting it out completely. and as said above i don't think 1 day will do much

[Behemoth]

No.

[ssmla123]

As said before 24hrs isn't enough time. Gunter did something similar a couple years ago with a diet cycle of 2wks bulk, 2 wks cut over and over. That way you take advantage of the initial bulking cycle but stop before a plateau. And the same when cutting. But according to the graphs I saw it takes about 2 wks to reach said plateau, after 24hrs any change would be to little to notice.