{"id":19825,"date":"2017-01-29T15:57:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T15:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=19825"},"modified":"2017-01-29T15:57:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T15:57:54","slug":"exercise-and-fitness-protein-consumption-for-muscle-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/exercise-and-fitness-protein-consumption-for-muscle-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise and Fitness:  protein consumption for muscle building"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor looks into recommended daily protein intake for athletes.<\/h1>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been under the impression that around 50g protein per day would be adequate for me (175lb, active).  However, from my investigation today, that&#8217;s too low, even for a sedentary person.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some protein intake guidelines I&#8217;ve discovered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nNot very physically active:  0.36g protein per pound of body weight per day.  For 175lb individual, that means 63g.<\/li>\n<li>\nActive, trying to improve conditioning:  0.5g to 0.7g protein per lb body weight per day.  For 175lb individual, comes to around 105g per day.<\/li>\n<li>\nCompetitive athelete:  0.7g to 0.8g protein per lb body weight per day.  For 175lb individual, comes to around 131g per day.<\/li>\n<li>\nBodybuilding rule of thumb:  1g protein per lb body weight per day.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While I&#8217;m surprised by these figures, they seem merited by good sources.  I&#8217;ll be following up about this topic:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleforlife.com\/how-much-protein-build-muscle\/\">www.muscleforlife.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mensfitness.com\/nutrition\/what-to-eat\/protein-guide-maximum-muscle\">www.mensfitness.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.builtlean.com\/2012\/12\/24\/protein-build-muscle\/\">www.builtlean.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor looks into recommended daily protein intake for athletes. I&#8217;ve been under the impression that around 50g protein per day would be adequate for me (175lb, active). However, from my investigation today, that&#8217;s too low, even for a sedentary &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/exercise-and-fitness-protein-consumption-for-muscle-building\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exercise and Fitness:  protein consumption for muscle building<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,181],"tags":[2115],"class_list":["post-19825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise-and-fitness","category-lifestyle","tag-daily-protein-intake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19825"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19833,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19825\/revisions\/19833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}