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One trick is to adjust the diet by consuming more quality protein and calories every time you increase your strength levels by about 5%.
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See above. Depending on your training your strenth could increase without an appreciable increase in muscle mass. This is why we go by lean body mass other more dependable and accurate guidelines such as basal metabolism rate to determine nutrient needs.
That is not to say that pure strength athletes do not need higher protein intake!
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For maximum effects around 30 grams of high quality protein must be supplied every 3 hours in order to keep the body’s amino acid pool topped up full.
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This is the only information given as to how much protein is needed. Someone with an lbm of 140 probably get enough if he ate 7 meals a day. Again, not a good formula.