The Final Word On The Possibility Of Getting Fit Fast
MM: I’ve seen you mention something called ‘broscience’ — the idea that guys are sharing misinformation.
LN: Broscience is stuff that when you say it, if you’re uneducated, it sounds good. But when you put it up to the litmus test of science, it’s absolute nonsense.
MM: What are some of the current broscience things you’re hearing?
LN: One is when people say you can’t absorb more than 30 grams of protein per meal. Nonsense. If you couldn’t absorb more than 30 grams of protein per meal, if you ate 50, you’d have diarrhea and crap out the rest. Your body doesn’t leave undigested material sitting around in your GI tract. You can digest however much you take in. Now, the question that most people are actually wanting to know is, how much protein is actually useful for muscle building? What’s the max I can take in for the maximum effect? And that probably is around 30 to 40 grams, but if you eat 100 grams, it’s not like you’re going to waste the rest of it.
Another idea is that you should do fasted cardio because if you’re fasted, that means that you will be burning all fat. That doesn’t hold up. Yes, you burn a greater percentage of calories from fat if you train fasted. However, you actually have a lower thermogenic response by not eating before that cardio session. If you ate before, you’d burn more total calories and, at the end, the fat loss is the same. So I always say, eat beforehand because you’ll have more energy. You’ll be able to put more energy into it and it will be more effective.