Question About Protein Post-Workout

[djpg2000]

If I'm not looking to gain muscle and I'm just doing my normal muscle building exercises without going to failure, so basically just for cardio, do I HAVE to take protein afterwords?

[adamrochester]

no mate you dont have to just hit your macros

but if you want to you can

or have bcaa's after like xtend even better !

[TrueBDB]

If by afterwords you mean within an hour or so of training, you NEVER have to take protein. What you eat throughout the day is fine.

[BenW22]

If I'm not looking to gain muscle and I'm just doing my normal muscle building exercises without going to failure, so basically just for cardio, do I HAVE to take protein afterwords?

Wait..huh? You're lifting weights for cardio only?

[PerfectFormForever]

So you don't want to gain muscle, you only want to cardio? Good god, why would you even ask if you need protein afterwords? No, you can do whatever you want. I'm not quite sure what your goals are.

[djpg2000]

Well, cardio meaning 12-15 reps pretty fast to get the heart rate up and not going to failure just to maintain my muscle mass...Anyway, I just wanted to make sure because I don't want to be taking in shakes while I'm cutting. Thanks.

[AlwaysTryin]

Well, cardio meaning 12-15 reps pretty fast to get the heart rate up and not going to failure just to maintain my muscle mass...Anyway, I just wanted to make sure because I don't want to be taking in shakes while I'm cutting. Thanks.

High rep light weight + cutting = cyaaaaa muscleeee

[adamrochester]

High rep light weight + cutting = cyaaaaa muscleeee

spot on this ^

[foodandfitness]

If I'm not looking to gain muscle and I'm just doing my normal muscle building exercises without going to failure, so basically just for cardio, do I HAVE to take protein afterwords?

1. I'm not looking to gain muscle
2. I do muscle building exercises

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You don't HAVE to take protein for anything, bro. Protein powder is just a convenience thing and as long as you are eating enough calories and appropriate macronutrients, hopefully at least 50% coming from nutrient dense foods, you are good.