Re: Whey Protein Facts
Whey proteins are primarily used as a part of a body building programme. I am not sure that they are going to be very effective at being used with a Cardio Programme like Krav Fitness or similar. The reason is that when you train your muscles to repeated muscle failure or within a close rep range of muscle failure, you routinely tear your muscles and your body produces an acid from your muscles at the same time which has a burning sensation. Whey proteins work to help give your body the protein that it needs to repair and continue the new growth of your muscles.
To complicate matters, Whey Protein is only one form of several types of supplements a Body Builder will use to increase muscle mass. Another popular supplement is Creatine powder for example. Things like concentrated Green Tea & Bitter Melon extracts are used to promote weight loss and enable muscle gain at the same time and are often blended into different protein powders.
For high cardio like what happens at Krav, your main focus is replacing mineral salts lost from the body, slamming down a protein drink is probably not going to do a great deal for you even though your muscles may feel tired.
Krav people tend to have different view on this, yet mine is that a muscle building programme ideally done at the gym and not on a weight set at home goes hand in hand with training in Krav Maga. Yet the training is generally totally separate to your Krav training unless your Krav Gym has this equipment in tandem as some now do. The reason is because the founder set up Krav with the expectation that the fitness level was that of an Israeli soldier, which means in theory that you should aim to be able to drop and do 100 push ups on request from your instructor along with the crunches and other requirements that a Soldier has to present themselves with in their profession. Gym training makes this a reality in most cases.
