Art,

 

You need to take both.  Before and after workouts you want whey protein and BCAA's.  Before bed take Casein (milk) protein with water as it will take 5-7 hours to digest and will feed your body while it sleeps and is doing the most repairing of cells.  Do not take mass gainer before bed unless you are real skinny and you are trying to pack on weight.  

 

John

Got my casein protein. Man, this thing is thick compared to whey protein. I'm hoping it'll keep me full until 3 or 4 AM when I wake up. I usually wake up at 11 pm hungry.

I'm faced with a multitude of problems (on the site) right now:

- I can't get profile photos to upload, not that I want everyone to see what I look like at the moment too

- I've been to a dietician for a new diet to follow. My diet for now is focussed on loosing fat and getting enough good calories for muscle building.

- I also find it difficult to upload a meal plan, because the food and supplements I use is not available on this site, well 60% of what I eat and take is not in the lists.

- The supplements I use are also not on this site.

- Basically everything food and supplement wise I need to get all the info from, and to be frank, it will take me a day to add all the items' nutrtional values in order to set up my diet.

- I'm also getting my workouts from a biokineticist. Some of the exercises he has given me is also different or not found on this site. I can list which muscle groups I'm doing on which days, but I'm not sure if that would be enough.

All I know is that I'm making progress and I'm approaching April 2014, which is my cut-off date to determine if I'm wasting my time or have made enough progress to maintain what I'm doing. I'm making progress, because at the beginning of October I weighed 85 kilograms and my bodyfat was 15.4% I'm now at 87.5 kilograms and my bodyfat is 13.1% My arms, shoulders, chest, biceps, forearms and legs have grown and my waste and bum got smaller.

I've read a lot about men older than 35 that are trying to build muscle. Factors like testosterone and Human Growth Hormones decrease when you're in your mid-thirties. So my next step is to see my GP to determine my levels of testosterone and HGH to see if I need to do something to increase my levels, or get it back to normal.

i hope I may post this.

 

we all know by now that diet and training hard are the key components to building bigger muscles. We need to eat protein and rip it up in the gym. BUT, can anyone please answer this: What must happen in your body to be able to grow your muscles? In other words, after my workout, what happens to the chemistry in my body and what happens with the supplements and food I eat to make my muscles grow? How much of what I eat contribute to muscle growth etc?

 

Stay awesome people!

 

W