When do you take your whey?

[BasicTraining]

I am lifting tommorow mourning and wondering if I should do it right after and when through the day? It says for building muslce take 3 a day

[Torque42]

You should have it before, and 30 minutes after. I reccomend having a shake and eggs for breakfast. The eggs will absorb over hours while whey will take around 10 minutes.

[BasicTraining]

even if i workout at 630 am also we run as well would it affect me

[LiquidMercury16]

Why run on the same day you lift? Just going to be canablizing your own muscle for energy. If you can I'd break it up to two separate days. Most important time to take it is after a workout (within 30 minutes) and before you go to bed to give your body somethin to rebuild with while you are sleeping. How much you take it depends on how much protein you are getting in your normal diet. I take 2 shakes a day both having two scoops of protein in it for an extra 120g of protein/day supplemental form. I get a good bit more from solid foods though.

[Wooks]

Why run on the same day you lift? Just going to be canablizing your own muscle for energy. If you can I'd break it up to two separate days. Most important time to take it is after a workout (within 30 minutes) and before you go to bed to give your body somethin to rebuild with while you are sleeping. How much you take it depends on how much protein you are getting in your normal diet. I take 2 shakes a day both having two scoops of protein in it for an extra 120g of protein/day supplemental form. I get a good bit more from solid foods though.

Canabalizing your own muscle? Sorry to hijack the thread, but what does that mean? I've been lifting / running on the same day for a while :-\

[LiquidMercury16]

canabilize = to eat of the human self. In this sense it means you are eating your own muscle as energy because your body has used up all of its glycogen stores during lifting. I'm not going to go in more detail then that because it would require me to go and get a bunch of sources and I don't have the time to do so.

[BasicTraining]

it's the way we have practice and it's not like running a couple of miles it's more along the lines of agility drills ladder etc.

[laxmj1992]

The best time to use whey protein is with water immediately after lifting, and with milk before bed. When taken with water, the whey protein digests very quickly. You want to get the protein digested and in you as quickly as possible after a workout, so drink as soon as you can when finished. Before bed, drink it with milk. This makes it take longer to digest, so you are more active while sleeping.
Correct me if I am wrong.

[LiquidMercury16]

The best time to use whey protein is with water immediately after lifting, and with milk before bed. When taken with water, the whey protein digests very quickly. You want to get the protein digested and in you as quickly as possible after a workout, so drink as soon as you can when finished. Before bed, drink it with milk. This makes it take longer to digest, so you are more active while sleeping.
Correct me if I am wrong.

Whey protein mixed with milk isn't going to digest slower. The whey will digest the same, the caseinate in milk will digest slower. If you are looking for a slow release protein go with caseinate or egg albumin. Whey is fast acting and will digest fast no matter what it's mixed with.

[fossil8412]

The best time to use whey protein is with water immediately after lifting, and with milk before bed. When taken with water, the whey protein digests very quickly. You want to get the protein digested and in you as quickly as possible after a workout, so drink as soon as you can when finished. Before bed, drink it with milk. This makes it take longer to digest, so you are more active while sleeping.
Correct me if I am wrong.


I swear, the more time I spend on bb.com, the more I think people just blatantly make things up on this forum.

Thank you liquid for correcting him.

[Sardo]

once in the morning with your breakfast, once before you work out, and one right after your done working out, it works the best, cause i've tried other ways and they don't work nearly as good, and it usually tells u when to take the stuff right on the container

[LiquidMercury16]

I swear, the more time I spend on bb.com, the more I think people just blatantly make things up on this forum.

Thank you liquid for correcting him.

No problem, even though on the training forums I'm apart of, we laugh at the people on bb.com just as much as you are in awe at the idiocy on these forums in the training section.