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[xxdavidxx]

I'm in what's called a "bulking cycle." Which means I eat a lot of food with high amounts of protein and go to the gym lifting heavy weights 4 times a week. I've come to the conclusion that it's much much harder to eat like this than it is to eat to loose weight. Not only do you eat a lot, you have to eat a lot of healthy/lean/high protein foods

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[xxdavidxx]

depends on what kind of working out your doing. When you're lifiting heavy weights with the goal to bulk up you damage you muscles and your body uses protein to build the damaged cells back larger and stronger, and if you're doing heavy weights it takes a lot more protein to build these cells back and to fill the larger cells. Carbs have nothing to do with muscle, carbs are only used by the body for energy to complete the workout. My diet consists of about 40% carbs and 30% protein 30% fat, once I start cutting the fat that will change.

[xxdavidxx]

I'm not denying what you say is true, but I don't think you're looking at it in the same sense that I am. Different forms of excersise require different needs, endurance requires more cardio, heavy weight lifting requires massive amounts of protein. It's very possible to survive on a small amount of protein, but that's only if you don't care about keeping muscle tone or building muscle tone. To maintain muscle you need at least 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight. To build muscle you need atleast 2 grams of protein per pound of body weight. As I stated before when you lift heavy weights your muscles break down protein faster than anything else, and because the stress you put on your muscles it needs a pretty good amount of protein to help rebuild the muscle cells which results in your muscles growing back larger, harder, and stronger

[xxdavidxx]

don't get upset. What I've learned is from a number of sources ranging from the internet, magazines, books, talking to trainers, talking to nutritionists, talking to body builders. I've done my research several times over through several different mediums. I just find it funny how all the mediums I've gone through say the exact same thing.