Quote (PudzianGoat @ Apr 2 2015 09:48pm)
I think its the wrong approach to consume your protein based on x amount of grams per pound of bodyweight.
For instance a friend of mine who does loads of sports (MMA, boxing, tricking, cheerleading, weight lifting etc) started a 7000kcal/day diet in order to
gain weight. even at 1g per lb (many will advise you to consume less, like 1.8g or even 1.6g per kg I've heard)
at 200lbs that means just 200g or 800 calories from protein.. Only 12% of those 7000 calories would be protein :/ I'd recommend at least 30% being protein, which with a 7000kcal diet would mean 525 grams of protein or 2.7 grams per lb
A friend of mine who recently competed in Men's Physique ate a 2800kcal diet to cut for 8-10 weeks and that diet contained 255 grams of protein for a guy weighing 175lbs thats about 1.5g/lb.
Well yeah that's more understandable. But we're talking about a cut here. If you're cutting on 7k cals. You're a god. Otherwise the ratio couldn't possibly that far off from 30-40% of daily intake to say 1g/lb of bw.