25% off (Sale price $10.00, Reg. Price $13.50) :: Choose from Three Options $13.50 for Brentwood: two vouchers, each good for $10 worth of smoothies, cold-pressed juices, and organic foods ($20 total value) $13.50 for West Hollywood: two vouchers, each good for $10 worth of smoothies, cold-pressed juices, and organic foods ($20 total value) $13.50 for Sherman Oaks: two vouchers, each good for $10 worth of smoothies, cold-pressed juices, and organic foods ($20 total value)Muscle-Building Diets: Eating for Strength If you want to bulk up, protein isn’t the only nutrient to pay attention to. Learn what else your body needs with Groupon’s guide to muscle-building diets.After an intense workout, your arms and legs might feel like they’re screaming in pain. In fact, the muscle fibers have been minutely injured in thousands of locations, and in response, the body sends satellite cells to repair them. Over time, this leads to bulkier muscles. Like half the body’s dry weight, muscles are largely made of protein, so it makes intuitive sense that protein would be important for muscle growth. Certain proteins do an exceptionally good job of facilitating this: for instance, cottage cheese, eggs, and the protein-powder staple whey contain high levels of leucine, an amino acid that sparks muscle-protein synthesis.But the protein you consume in a shake, a steak, or a steak smoothie will never be transformed into muscle tissue on its own—the only way to build muscle is through the aforementioned cycle of muscle stress and repair. And when a workout is underway, you don’t want to force your body to feed on protein to meet its energy needs. For that, you’ll want lots of carbohydrates so that the body has fuel to burn without sapping your developing muscles.Fat is also necessary, but in moderation: when the body is performing high-intensity, resistance-based exercise such as weightlifting, it bypasses fat in the body’s pantry and reaches for carbohydrates first. It’s also important to note that the body can only process so much protein at once, so multiple servings throughout t
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