{"id":3316,"date":"2022-01-08T06:25:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T11:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2022-01-08T06:25:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T11:25:25","slug":"why-i-dont-use-protein-shakes-or-recommend-protein-supplements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/nutrition\/why-i-dont-use-protein-shakes-or-recommend-protein-supplements\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Don&#8217;t Use Protein Shakes Or Recommend Protein Supplements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1a62SHPnXjY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">See the video here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1a62SHPnXjY\">Why I Don&#8217;t Use Protein Shakes Or Recommend Protein Supplements<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In this video, I talk about why it is<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">that throughout my bodybuilding career, for the most part<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and since the 1990s, late 1990s,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have not used any <a href=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/diet\/nutrition\/are-protein-shakes-bad-for-you-and-do-they-work\/\">protein shakes<\/a> nor do I advocate it<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">or use it with my clients<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">who are getting ready for body building competitions<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">or any clients.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s really something I completely stand against<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and in this video,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m going to talk about why I don&#8217;t use them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And hopefully it helps you<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">make a little bit of a more informed<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and less marketing-oriented decision<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in terms of whether you should be using<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">protein shakes or not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3320\" src=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/This-is-me-right-before-I-started-training-1024x576.png\" alt=\"This is me right before I started bodybuilding\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/This-is-me-right-before-I-started-training-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/This-is-me-right-before-I-started-training-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/This-is-me-right-before-I-started-training-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/This-is-me-right-before-I-started-training-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/This-is-me-right-before-I-started-training-1170x658.png 1170w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/This-is-me-right-before-I-started-training.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">My Muscle Mass Gains Without Using Protein Shakes<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So, today we&#8217;ll talk about why it is<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">that I stopped using protein shakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So just some background.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When I started training in Trinidad,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I was 125 pounds, six feet tall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Over the course, from the age of 14 years old<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">when I started, being painfully skinny, to<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">20 years old, just about 19-20 years old,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I went from 125 pounds<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to 198 and a half pounds in contest shape.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Not just 198 and a half pounds off season,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Contest shape, pretty much cut.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That&#8217;s a significant amount of muscle mass<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">that I put on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And during that period of time,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I didn&#8217;t have protein shakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I was a teenager growing up in Trinidad,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I didn&#8217;t have access to any of those things.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3321\" src=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ME-AT-252LBS-1024x576.png\" alt=\"how i got fat from using protein shakes\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ME-AT-252LBS-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ME-AT-252LBS-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ME-AT-252LBS-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ME-AT-252LBS-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ME-AT-252LBS-1170x658.png 1170w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ME-AT-252LBS.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My Experience (Getting Fat) From Using Protein Shakes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And I would read the magazines<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and really and truly think that one day<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;ll come to the United States, and I did at 20 years old.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And I always felt that when I came here,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;d be able to have access to protein shakes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and I&#8217;d be just like the guys in the magazines<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">who were so much more developed than I was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Little did I know then that it was really,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">because they were on drugs,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and I wasn&#8217;t on drugs and would never be on drugs,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">but the magazines really created for us back then<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">this idea that you really needed protein shakes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to be successful as a bodybuilder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So much so that I completely ignored the fact that<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I had accomplished so much<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">without even touching a protein shake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But when I came to United States<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and I was in a position all of a sudden<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to have access to protein shakes and afford protein shakes,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I really expected that there would be<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">this tremendous change in my physique,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a tremendous change in my performance at the gym,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and I don&#8217;t think anything really happened.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If anything, to be very honest, I got fat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I came to the US at 198 and a half pounds, as I said,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and by the age of 24, four years later,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I was 252 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Before I started my preparations<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">for my first natural bodybuilding contest<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">here in United States,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I was 252<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and it didn&#8217;t feel good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I was having a protein shake every day<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and I was eating<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">with the idea too of trying to put as much muscle mass<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and mass in general as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The whole bulking up idea,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">which I do not advocate either.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And I haven&#8217;t done as well, since the late &#8217;90s,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m going to do a video about that as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3322\" src=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Me-protein-shake-free-1024x576.png\" alt=\"In contest shape without protein shakes \" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Me-protein-shake-free-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Me-protein-shake-free-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Me-protein-shake-free-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Me-protein-shake-free-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Me-protein-shake-free-1170x658.png 1170w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Me-protein-shake-free.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Rule Of No Protein Shakes During Natural Bodybuilding Contest Prep<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But what was the most stand out to me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">was that when I dieted down for my first contest,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I was starting to diet down for my first contest<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">my bodybuilding coach, Mr. Ian Mercer,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">who is perhaps one of the greatest<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">natural bodybuilding coaches of all time,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">along with Charlie Carollo,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">who was the then owner of Fifth Avenue Gym<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and chairman of the then, I believe, WNBF|INBF<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(or it could even predate that.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But what they told me was that before a contest,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">you stop taking protein shakes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">when you&#8217;re doing your preparations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And that didn&#8217;t make much sense to me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8217;cause I said, well, I thought protein shakes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">were really an important part of bodybuilding<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and that you needed that extra protein<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to put on muscle mass and everything else.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And Ian Mercer, my coach as I said,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">looked at me and said, &#8220;No, before a competition,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">you take all those things out<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8217;cause it&#8217;s not going to help you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You only eat solid food.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now, some background.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Anything that Ian Mercer told me back then, and even today,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I just listen and go ahead with it<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">because the man had literally decades of experience<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">at the time when I met him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And I just had a couple of competitions under my belt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And I think one of the most important factors<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">is being able to listen and learn<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">from those who&#8217;ve gone before.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And I&#8217;ve always had a certain reverence<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">for those who I worked with and I listened to him implicitly<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and I stopped the protein shakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And I cut down, in a very legendary way, from 252 pounds<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to my contest weight that I came in for my show<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">at 209 pounds three months later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So I lost a lot and I was actually surprised<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">that in the four-year period, with all those protein shakes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">that I wasn&#8217;t bigger than that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yes, I put on just about maybe nine and a half pounds,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">which is good over a four-year period.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s excellent actually over a four-year period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But I wasn&#8217;t sure that having the protein shakes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">made that much of a difference<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">considering the progress I was making<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">before I was not taking any protein shakes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3323\" src=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Me-25-years-without-protein-shakes-at-47-1024x576.png\" alt=\"25 years of natural bodybuilding without protein shakes\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Me-25-years-without-protein-shakes-at-47-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Me-25-years-without-protein-shakes-at-47-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Me-25-years-without-protein-shakes-at-47-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Me-25-years-without-protein-shakes-at-47-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Me-25-years-without-protein-shakes-at-47-1170x658.png 1170w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Me-25-years-without-protein-shakes-at-47.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Why I Stopped Using Protein Shakes Permanently 25 Years Ago<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And then here&#8217;s the strange thing<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I felt better than I ever did<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">when I stopped using those protein shakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My stomach felt better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My digestion was better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My energy levels were better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I was cutting down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I was leaner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I looked my best.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I didn&#8217;t lose any strength.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I replaced the liquid protein I was taking<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">with solid protein<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and I felt overall better,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">more like my natural self and my normal self.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And at the end of the competition, which I won,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I told myself, well, if I feel so good<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">without the protein shakes and did so well<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">before without protein shakes,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">why should I go back to using protein shakes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">on a regular basis?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And so I stopped.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I stopped completely.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That was somewhere around maybe 1997.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And I haven&#8217;t had a protein shake since.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3324\" src=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ian-Mercer-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Ian Mercer one of the best natural bodybuilding coaches of all time\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ian-Mercer-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ian-Mercer-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ian-Mercer-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ian-Mercer-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ian-Mercer-1170x658.png 1170w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ian-Mercer.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Comparison of Natural Bodybuilders Using Protein Shakes vs Those Not Using Protein Shakes<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So my clients, as I went on<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and became also a bodybuilding coach<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and started training clients,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a lot of them would come to me and they&#8217;d be adamant<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">about the fact that they would not stop<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">taking protein shakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They were completely adamant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And at the time I would allow it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And so as I always talk<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">about the importance of experimentation,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">what I had was this really interesting<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">controlled experiment front of me,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in that I had some clients<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">who are getting ready for competitions,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">trying to get as lean as possible,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">men and women who were taking protein shakes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And then I had others who were exactly doing the same thing,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">eating more or less the same diet,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">training with me, training pretty much the same way<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and not taking protein shakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3325\" src=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Protein-aftermanth-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Natural bodybuilders using protein shakes lost less fat\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Protein-aftermanth-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Protein-aftermanth-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Protein-aftermanth-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Protein-aftermanth-1170x658.png 1170w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Protein-aftermanth.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Natural Bodybuilders Using Protein Shakes Lost Less Body Fat Compared To Those Eating Only Solid Food<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And interestingly enough<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and keeping with what Ian Mercer had said,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">those who kept on taking protein shakes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">did not lose as much body fat<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">as those who were not taking protein shakes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The protein shakes did seem to make a difference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The ones who were consuming no protein shakes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">had the same protein intakes as those with the shakes,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">except those who were taking the shakes,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">they were getting liquid protein.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Some of them were taking as many as two shakes a day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So why is that?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Why is it that taking protein shakes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">seems to have a bit of an adverse effect<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in terms of body fat reduction?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3326\" src=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-molecular-structure-of-proteins-1024x576.png\" alt=\"The molecular structure of proteins\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-molecular-structure-of-proteins-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-molecular-structure-of-proteins-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-molecular-structure-of-proteins-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-molecular-structure-of-proteins-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-molecular-structure-of-proteins-1170x658.png 1170w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-molecular-structure-of-proteins.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Why Protein Shakes Don\u2019t Work As Well As Solid Protein For Fat Loss<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Well, there is a reason for it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If we think about the molecular structure of fats,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">carbohydrates and proteins<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and how our body breaks down these macro nutrients<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">for our body to be able to use them,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">we can see a bit of an understanding of how it works.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So molecules of fats and molecules of carbohydrates,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">they pretty much are easily broken down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They&#8217;re very much easily broken down by the body<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">because it&#8217;s not as complex a structure as protein.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To break down protein,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">our body has to use more energy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">than it does to break down carbohydrates or fat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So with that being said,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">if I was to consume 200 calories worth of protein,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and I was also able to consume 200 calories worth of<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">either fats or carbohydrates,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">the amount of energy that my body would have to use<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to break it down,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">would essentially create what&#8217;s called a thermic effect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3327\" src=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DIT-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Diet induced thermogenesis is decreased with protein shakes\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DIT-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DIT-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DIT-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DIT-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DIT-1170x658.png 1170w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DIT.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It increases your metabolism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now every food, even fats and carbohydrates<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">do have a thermic effect,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">but protein has the highest one<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">because those molecular strands are so complex<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and if you eat something like a chicken breast,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">your body has to break down that chicken breast<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">into the individual essential amino acids,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">which then go into your bloodstream<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and your body can use.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Your body can&#8217;t use solid protein.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Your body has to break it down<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">into the individual amino acids.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And that&#8217;s important because that requires,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">like I said, energy,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and creates the thermic effect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But every time you eat a protein meal,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a solid protein meal that is,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">your metabolism increases slightly<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">as it breaks down everything<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">into the individual amino acids.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now, if you&#8217;re taking a pre-digested protein drink,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">it&#8217;s a little bit different, like the whey proteins,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">even from the vegan versions as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s just not the same.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s already broken down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So, you&#8217;re not going to have as much of a thermic effect.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3328\" src=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/its-a-milkshake-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Liquid calories from protein shakes vs solid protein\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/its-a-milkshake-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/its-a-milkshake-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/its-a-milkshake-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/its-a-milkshake-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/its-a-milkshake-1170x658.png 1170w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/its-a-milkshake.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>The Problem With Liquid Calories<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You&#8217;re also going to get liquid calories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Liquid calories are a lot of calories<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">coming in at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And let&#8217;s talk for a second about<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">how our bodies are designed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now, the only real liquid calories that the human body<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">is designed to take in is that of human breast milk<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and human breast milk is by all means,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and all milk is a weight gain formula for young mammals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That&#8217;s all it is.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Breast milk is a weight formula for young mammals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now you think about something like Whey Protein Shakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It sounds complicated, but Whey is a milk product.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It is a milkshake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All the marketing in the world can&#8217;t change that fact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s still a milkshake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And as we know, our body as we get older,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">is designed to take in solid foods not liquid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Liquid calories coming in<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">tend to be a problem for us<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">because it&#8217;s too much coming in at one point in time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When too many calories come in at one point in time,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">even though it&#8217;s not high in fat,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">you still have that problem of<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">your body is not designed<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to take in too many calories coming in at one time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So, what does it [your body] do?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If there&#8217;s too much coming in,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">either we use it as energy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">or we hold on to some of it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So, I think as well that if you think about<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">how it would work,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">the thermic effect from a protein shake<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">is never going to be the same as what&#8217;s going to happen<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">eating solid food<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and I&#8217;ve been able to prove it with clients.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When clients switch from solid,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">sorry, switch from a liquid protein intake<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to the same amount of protein from solid foods,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">they do see a significant increase<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in muscle mass, strength and decrease in body fat<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">when or if they&#8217;re trying to reduce their body fat levels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Protein shakes don&#8217;t seem to be the best solution<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">if you&#8217;re trying to really maximize your muscle mass,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">or I would probably say, if you&#8217;re trying to lose body fat<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">especially so.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3329\" src=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Epidemiological-data-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Epidemiological data suggests protein shakes adversely affect weight loss\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Epidemiological-data-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Epidemiological-data-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Epidemiological-data-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Epidemiological-data-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Epidemiological-data-1170x658.png 1170w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Epidemiological-data.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Protein Shakes Are Not Natural And Are Highly Processed Foods That Our Bodies Are Not Designed To Consume<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s interesting as well,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">that so many fitness enthusiasts<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">talk about the importance of being natural,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">eating natural foods and unprocessed foods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And I&#8217;m a big advocate as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And looking back, it was one of the reasons too,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">why I stopped using protein shakes because<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">there&#8217;s nothing more unnatural than a protein shake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It doesn&#8217;t exist in nature in any form whatsoever<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and you can&#8217;t take natural ingredients,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">put it together in an unnatural way,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">introduce something that&#8217;s completely new to the human diet<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and say, because it has natural ingredients it&#8217;s natural,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">it&#8217;s not, that&#8217;s not how it works.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You can take all the organic products you want<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to make organic ice cream,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">it&#8217;s still ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s still bad for you if you&#8217;re thinking about trying to lose weight,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">if you&#8217;re thinking about trying to watch,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">your caloric intake,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">the same applies to protein shakes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3330\" src=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fraud-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"misleading practices of protein supplement companies\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fraud-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fraud-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fraud-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fraud-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fraud-1-1170x658.png 1170w, https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fraud-1.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">The Misleading Marketing Practices Of Protein Supplement Companies<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The other thing that was very troubling<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">was that as I became more involved<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in the bodybuilding world,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I was able to see a bit of a dissonance<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">between what people have said they took<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and what they really took.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I personally knew several bodybuilders<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">who were huge endorsers of different protein shakes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and they never took a protein shake in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They sold it, but they never took it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And myself, as I became more and more involved<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and more successful in bodybuilding,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I got contacted by several brands and they would ask me,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">would you endorse our brand in exchange for,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">usually they would offer free products,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">which I wasn&#8217;t interested in<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">because I don&#8217;t use supplements at all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And in some cases, they would offer some money for it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And my response was always,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">well, I don&#8217;t really believe in taking protein shakes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And they were always saying,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in every single piece of correspondence we ever had,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">it didn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I didn&#8217;t have to use the protein shakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I just had to say that I did!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And say that my results and my gains and my success<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">were due to me using this particular product.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now, integrity is something that&#8217;s very important to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And I see in the fitness industry,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">so many personal trainers,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">so many athletes with their sponsorships that and the other,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and they advocate the use of things<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">that they don&#8217;t necessarily believe in<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">because they make money from it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Because they have a vested interest in selling it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m going to tell you, through my entire career,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have never sold any form of supplement,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">never advocated it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;ve walked away from a lot of money on the table,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and early on in my career,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">when things were really hard,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I looked hard at those decisions I was making,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">but it&#8217;s important for us to walk the walk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s important for us to be honest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s not about making a buck<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and it&#8217;s not about misleading the public<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in saying that you&#8217;re taking something that you don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The other problem as well<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">was the fact that so many of those athletes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">use anabolic steroids, and if you do<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">it doesn&#8217;t matter whether you use protein shakes or not.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We have to be honest about it,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">honest about what we do and what we don&#8217;t do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And my job as a personal trainer<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">so far has always been enough for me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to earn an honest living.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Anything outside of that might bring me more income,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">but it&#8217;s not going to help me sleep at night<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">because my mission is and always has been to help people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And making money selling something I don&#8217;t use or believe in<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">does not help anyone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And so I have nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Never did it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Never will do it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In fact, in this channel, you can be guaranteed<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">all the information you hear<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">is going to be based on my experience, what I&#8217;ve seen,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and you&#8217;re not going to get any sales pitches about<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">any particular products,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">it&#8217;s not going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I hope that<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">this video helps you get some perspective on protein shakes,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">helps you see a little bit through the veil of<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">all the marketing that&#8217;s usually associated with it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And it helps you make an informed decision.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">You Don\u2019t Need Protein Shakes Or Any Supplements To Realize Your Fitness Goals<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You can do quite a lot!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And you can do so much<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">if you stop relying on externalities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you stopped thinking<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">that you need something outside of yourself,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a protein shake, a pre-workout drink,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">all these pills and portions,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">you don&#8217;t need anything, because all those things do<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">is distract you from what&#8217;s 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Excelsior!!! #naturallyintense\n\n#highintensitytraining #naturalbodybuilder #naturalbodybuilding #fitover40 #naturalbodybuildingvideos #armworkout #bicepsworkout #naturalbodybuildingtips #biceps #armtraining #highintensitytrainingtips #drugfreebodybuilding #barbellcurls\">\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\n        <div class=\"sbi_info_wrapper\">\n            <div class=\"sbi_info\">\n\n\t\t                            <p class=\"sbi_caption_wrap\" >\n                        <span class=\"sbi_caption\"  style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Kevin&#039;s Unconventional Biceps Training- 3-6 Minutes a Week!<br>\n<br>\nIn this video I go over my biceps training using the Naturally Intense High Intensity Training protocols that helped me go from having arms measuring 11.5 to 12 inches to 18 inches drug free!<br>\n<br>\nIt&#039;s an unconventional approach for certain, but it&#039;s one that&#039;s helped my arms grow and the hundreds of men and women I have trained over the past 30 plus years.<br>\n<br>\nNow, my success isn&#039;t due to being genetically gifted, as it took me the better part of 11 years to get my arms up to those measurements.<br>\n<br>\nWhich is significant as it works and been been proven time and time again to work for the average man or woman trying to grow their arms without drugs.<br>\n<br>\nIt&#039;s my hope that these high intensity training protocols can help you as much as they helped me!<br>\n<br>\nClick on my bio link to see the full video on my YouTube channel and thanks as always for taking the time to look at my work!!! 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promoting one of the best archery tournaments on earth!\n\nThanks also to to everyone who took the time to send a supporting word and I am looking forward to next year!!! #naturallyintense #barebow\n\n#lancasterclassic #lancasterarcheryclassic2024 #lancasterarchery #archery #fitover40 #barebowrecurve #targetarchery\">\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\n        <div class=\"sbi_info_wrapper\">\n            <div class=\"sbi_info\">\n\n\t\t                            <p class=\"sbi_caption_wrap\" >\n                        <span class=\"sbi_caption\"  style=\"font-size: 13px;\">At the Lancaster Classic Day 2 Elimination Rounds Against European Champion, and World Record Holder Leo Pettersen @leo_barebow_archer<br>\n<br>\nI don&#039;t talk much about it but I&#039;m also a competitive barebow archer (surprise!) and last Saturday I had the honor of making it to Day 2 at the Lancaster Archery Classic in the Barebow Division, as I made the top 64 out of 267 competitors and had a chance to 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               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/naturallyintense.net\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/instagram-feed-pro\/img\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"Dumbo, Brooklyn circa 2004\n\nThis shot was taken as part of the promotion for my Naturally Intense DVD and was about a year after my last bodybuilding competition.\n\nIt was a grueling photoshoot.\n\nWe started at about 10 am and finished around 4pm and I was completely spent, but the more we shot the sharper I looked, so we kept on going.\n\nIt&#039;s nice to look back from time to time and as tired as I was, we all had a blast!\n\nMy thanks to @stephanie_corne_artwork, @https:\/\/pulse.ly\/itgnag2dec and @ftaz1 for taking the shots!!!\n\nThanks for watching and as always, Excelsior!!! #naturallyintense\n\n#naturalbodybuilder #naturalbodybuilding #throwback #fifthavenuegym #5thavenuegym #drugfreebodybuilding #naturalbodybuildinglifestyle #gymlife #gymmotivation #naturalbodybuildingmotivation #bodybuilding #blackandwhite 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