protein after tone/muscle building workout?

[cameron333]

Hello there. First of all-first post. My first, of many, questions is:
Should I take protein {drink milk and eat peanut butter, for me} right after my workout, even if its more of a fat burning than muscle building excersize?

See, I infuse both muscle-building and fat burning in my workouts, {I do alot of reps, but still have a little weight on there wich builds muscle too. Its like a teetertotter thing.}, because I want to be both more tone, and a bit larger.

But when I take protein for the muscle, does that cancel out the fat I just burned? How do body-builders do it? there both skinny, and muscle packed, so they take protein but also burned fat?

Thanks guys.

 

[AutumnPolitics]

Hello there. First of all-first post. My first, of many, questions is:
Should I take protein {drink milk and eat peanut butter, for me} right after my workout, even if its more of a fat burning than muscle building excersize?

See, I infuse both muscle-building and fat burning in my workouts, {I do alot of reps, but still have a little weight on there wich builds muscle too. Its like a teetertotter thing.}, because I want to be both more tone, and a bit larger.

But when I take protein for the muscle, does that cancel out the fat I just burned? How do body-builders do it? there both skinny, and muscle packed, so they take protein but also burned fat?

Thanks guys.

Hello and welcome. Please note this is intended to be a very rough bit of guidance only, just some encouragement to do further research and what to look for.

The main purpose of weight training, as I understand it, is to build either maximal strength (muscle hypertrophy), strength endurance, or speed-strength, not fat loss. While weight training does use up some of the fat stores surrounding your muscles, it does so at a far slower rate than cardio workouts, until you begin to reach massive weights/reps. If your goal is to both build muscle AND lose fat, I would highly suggest doing cardio workouts as well as weight training.

Now, onto your first question: if your are looking to lose fat, I would be inclined to eat nothing after your workout, or perhaps whey protein isolate in water ONLY. You will still build muscle and strength, but your muscles will use nutrients stored in other parts of your body for repair, ie layers of fat around the muscle.

You will become more toned, that is for sure, but you will not become larger.

The more goals you have, the greater the amount of time and planning you will need to spend on your training. I would suggest, if your time is limited, to focus on one goal at a time - ie, fat loss - and then focus on building size after that.

If your time is not limited, you can add in different types of workouts to your program for a 'complex' training program, which will help you achieve multiple goals at once.

Please let me know if you need any more clarification/detail.

 

[malkore]

you're going about things all wrong. I won't sugar coat this post. You need to read the stickied posts all over this forum. milk and peanut butter is NOT a post workout protein drink. its a piddly amount of protein unless you're drinking a quart of milk. and peanut butter...why exactly? post workout fat serves no purpose.

and lifting weights for fat loss doesn't work. weight training is an anaerobic process, adn you need aerobic processes to burn fat for energy. sure it'll burn calories, but not from stored fat.

wipe the slate clean and start over with your training routine and diet.

 

[cameron333]

Peanut butter has great protein, just as milk. it counts as roughly 30% of my daily value for protein, wich is, as ive read, dedicated straight to my muscles after a workout if taken in right after word. Though I am no expert.

I basically, am not fat, im 16 and am pretty fit. bigger in muscle than most guys, and less fat. I made varsity swim team freshmen year, wich takes some good fitness. But, basically, I was under the impression that with fat burning excersizes the fat layering my muscles and lead to being more tone. now, i wanted to mix that with with weight excersizes, and find a medium, where it took both muscle to lift the weight and fat to burn up after x amount of reps. Is that illogical?

I just wanted to be both tone and low fat because Ive noticed that guys that build muscle also just dont burn fat and just the glycogen stored in the cells for quick heavy lifts. I dont want to be that. I want to have a muscular build {more so than I am already} and the abscence of fat to show a six pack.