Summary
Menno Henselmans joins Modern Wisdom to discuss the new science of using protein to build muscle. Key topics include whether your body can absorb more than 20g of protein per meal; flexible dieting and iifym as a sustainable weight loss approach; caffeine as a potential fat burner.
Key Points
- Whether your body can absorb more than 20g of protein per meal
- Flexible dieting and IIFYM as a sustainable weight loss approach
- Caffeine as a potential fat burner
- Best foods for sleep and recovery
- Most underrated bodybuilding foods
- Science-backed approaches to building muscle with protein
Key Moments
Caffeine: I think that most of the effects of caffeine in
I think that most of the effects of caffeine in light of that earlier study that we talked about, and most research in general suggests that caffeine is by and large psychological aid.
"I think that most of the effects of caffeine in light of that earlier study that we talked about, and most research in general suggests that caffeine is by and large psychological aid. It does vary. Let's all long-term, if you look at studies where people are given caffeine for a period of weeks and you look at how much muscle they're gaining, how much fat are they, losing, much strength for the gaining."
And the control group was people who weren't paid to fall asleep
Yeah, yeah, there's a really great study that was done where they paid people to fall asleep faster. Yes, happiness, sleep, and productivity to an extent are extremely deceptive areas to optimize because the process of optimization itself, the touch from attaining the end goal.
"Yeah, yeah, there's a really great study that was done where they paid people to fall asleep faster. And the control group was people who weren't paid to fall asleep. And the control group that weren't paid fell asleep more quickly than the group that were. Yes, happiness, sleep, and productivity to an extent are extremely deceptive areas to optimize because the process of optimization itself, the touch from attaining the end goal."
Resistance Training: Pay a lot of attention to it but the people are
Most research finds that you can be quite flexible and you can what I do what I call combo sets with a lot of exercises that stimulate non-overlapping muscle groups for example squats chin ups over at press you can combine all of those but you don't have to superset them so you can take a minute of
"pay a lot of attention to it but the people are wasting a lot of time and they're being needlessly inflexible with their exercise order. Most research finds that you can be quite flexible and you can what I do what I call combo sets with a lot of exercises that stimulate non-overlapping muscle groups for example squats chin ups over at press you can combine all of those but you don't have to superset them so you can take a minute of rest after sq"
