Essentially, protein is the building block of muscle. When we exercise, we break down the muscle and then we need to rebuild that muscle to recover and then if we pushed beyond what our bodies were used too, the body will grow itself a little bigger and stronger adding muscle. The body uses protein which is broken down into aminos to repair and grow. In essence, adding BCAAs into our diet kind of skips a step in the process where the body must break down the meat or other protein source into those aminos to be used for repair and growth.
Recently I have added aminos into my regimen but still ingest plenty of protein through my diet as I am working out with weights and biking as well. In the past several months of very serious training I have been able to gain over an inch of muscle on my biceps measurement, which was one of my goals.
Is this gain because of my more focused training, because of my cleaner diet, or because of the addition of aminos into my supplement routine. To be honest, I am not sure. When I was younger, (I am 58 now) I never added in amino acids into my program and always made good progress simply eating a diet rich in protein.
Now however, the addition of them has seemed to have made a difference for my growth. I am not stating that adding aminos into your diet as an older athlete WILL get you greater results, but I will suggest that you should at least experiment with them for a time to see if you get similar gains like I did.
The limited research I have found suggests that adding in the aminos MAY help in an older adults training and muscle growth because certain receptors in our bodies that process protein and aminos are not as efficient as they were when we were younger. If you want, give it a try and let me know what you think!
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Scott
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