Do protein bars and shakes help build muscle for boxing?

If you're involved in weight lifting or body building at all, you've likely heard of the importance of protein for muscle building. However, if you're new to working out or are just looking for a way to boost your muscle mass through normal exercise regimens, you may not already be aware of the benefits of protein. Protein is one of the fundamental nutritional elements that is necessary to sustain life. It also has special functions in the role of muscle growth and muscle cell production as well. Read on for a few of the reasons that you should be using protein to aid in your muscle building efforts.
1. Your Muscles are Largely Composed of Protein

Like other cells in your body, your muscles are approximately two-thirds composed of water. After that, however, the next most plentiful component in muscle cells is protein. Protein makes up roughly 20 percent of your muscle cell composition. Thus, you'll need to have a supply of protein in your body in order to continue to develop and build these cells. Without it, you'll have a difficult time sustaining the cells that you do have and will certainly not be able to augment your muscle growth.
2. Protein Helps to Rebuild Muscle Cells

As you workout, the process of lifting weights and performing other exercises actually causes the muscles in your body to begin to break down. The muscle cells themselves tear and become damaged. The result is that your body moves in to repair those cells. When you provide your body with protein as it goes about repairing and rebuilding those muscles, it is then able to rebuild the cells slightly better and stronger than before.
3. Adding Protein Can Help You to Burn Fat

In addition to building muscle mass, many people workout in an attempt to burn off excess fat. Eliminating excess fat from your body can help to improve your physique and appearance, even if you are not building significant muscle growth at the same time. Using protein to help build muscle will effectively increase the speed at which your metabolism functions. This means that you'll be more likely to eliminate the excess fat in your body by doing less. You can, in fact, burn more calories and more fat while at rest, if you have more muscle in your body.
4. Protein Can Help to Suppress the Appetite

Adding protein to your diet for the purposes of muscle building can also help to suppress your appetite slightly. The benefit of this is that you'll be less inclined to consume excess calories. Losing the weight of excess fat and calorie reserves as a result of increasing your workout and suppressing your appetite slightly is a good way to further enhance your workout program.

Protein is a staple nutritional element of most meats, as well as many nuts and soy products. You can also purchase powdered protein supplements to be included in other food and drink items to help you to increase the amount of protein in your system.

 

They're merely forms off food. Does that answer your question?

 

Protein bars and protein shakes can definitely help build muscle...

But if you're trying to build muscle FOR boxing, then you're doing it wrong.

 

Well explain wtf you mean when you say 'muscle for boxing'. You're so vague in your description it's almost open to ridicule.

 

eat more animal protein in your regular diet and save the cash on the bars and shakes. Those are ok as a filler for your meals in between your basic 3 meals, but animal protein is the key

bars and shakes are vegetable protein. They are good, but chicken, red meat, pork, lamb etc is the way to go IMO

 

chef it probably varies but i'd be interested in seeing wlad's weekly menu for the weeks leading up to his fight - if you haven't already posted it

 

changes daily but a basic day (not fight week) is
Breakfast:
oatmeal with berries, toasted walnuts, and honey, green tea, yogurt, and if still hungry low fat cottage cheese

Lunch:
home made soup
A salad of some kind with grilled protein like chicken, pork, lamb, or fish... a salad like, baby greens, totasted nuts, dried cranberries, pears, mango, fetta cheese with balsamic vin dressing.. maybe a 1/2 an avocado

Dinner: 1 example
grilled filet mignon topped with grilled pineapple and topped with port honey glaze and goat cheese, with lemon and orange poached asparagus and oven roasted sweet potatoes

2 snacks of fruit, yogurt, and nuts...maybe a nutrition bar

then dessert... nice piece of homemade cheesecake.... he has a sweet tooth but its to raise his calorie count

just 1 example

 

Protein shakes won't help you build anymore muslce than eating the right type of foods will when working out. If you are talking about other supplements outside of a regular protein shake, then yes, some can give the appearance of building muscle. Anything with creatine in it can pump you up fairly quickly, but it is probably mostly water weight, that you would lose when you stop taking it.

 

Building muscle is not that important in boxing. Normal strength and conditioning work is all you need. KO someone has more to do with how you plant and throw your punches then it does with how much muscle you have.

 

I wouldn't worry about the creatine. Some doctors used to say that it makes the fast twitch muscles more prone to strains or tears.