I hate protein bars. They do taste like crap and you tend to get a lot more carbs with them then with a drink anyway. Although the guy that started me out training once said to me about the taste of protein drinks and such "Hey, I'd eat a rotten shoe if it made my muscles grow" A bit of an overstatement but I think you get the point. The trick is to eat a lot and eat things high in protein. Peanut butter, nuts, eggs, bacon, beef, chicken, fish, beans, cottage cheese, and milk. Figure you're drinking 4 or 5 glasses of milk a day, eating some cottage cheese, a grilled chicken breast or two, some nuts, maybe a peanut butter sandwich along with other foods and then protein bars or drinks on top of that. We're talking some major protein here. What if you're too busy to cook or on the run? Stop by a fast food joint and pick up a chicken sandwich and some water. It's not that hard to get the protein you need if you know what to eat and stick with drinking milk which is high in protein or water, stay off the soda.
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