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If you are planning to improve your fitness or lose weight, a high protein diet is a must. And the two goals a closely related to each other. Because when you build your muscles you also build metabolism. And a high metabolism level help you burn fat; and their by lose weight.

To build your muscle mass, you have to work out. In practice that means to stress the muscles to point of failure. And this is reached when you cannot do another repetition. Then it is time to stop, because if you continue, you may sustain injury.

When you exercising your muscles to their point of failure, you are telling the body that it can expect the same amount of stress in the future. This will make the body grow the muscles.

The repairing process starts immediately after you stop working out. And to prepare themselves for the new and higher stress level, they will not just grow to the previous state. The will grow even larger.

So to grow larger muscles, you have to break them down and build them up again. And to do that you have to feed your body. And the food for your body is protein.

Daily diet like poultry, fish and eggs are full of protein. So you have to figure out how much protein you need to build your muscles the most effective way.

A rule of thumb says that for every pound you weight, you have to consume 1g of protein; if you work out intensely. E.g. you have to consume 140g protein per day, if your weight is 140 pound.

It can be difficult to find the right amount of protein. Too high protein consumption will result in more fat, and too little will mean that you are not getting the muscles, you wished for.

The simple way to follow is to go for a high protein diet and cut down on carbohydrate and fat. Then it will not be a problem if some of the protein is converted to fat.

You can supplement your normal meals with protein supplements, if you are having problems getting enough proteins. Then you are also not getting to many calories from the real food.

You can also expect another positive side effect with a high protein diet plan: an improved immune system. And the better your immune system is the better is your general health.

Martin Elmer is the editor of Billigt proteinpulver. Here you can also read about Weight gainer.