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Originally Posted by 00accord44
And even if you don't drink the Ensures, the basic thing you need to do is take in more calories than your body burns each day. Ensures are 500 cal each so if you do 3 a day thats an extra 1500 calories to be converted into muscle mass. But this is based on your body's need to call on these calories to be converted. When you use muscles, they are utilized in two groups. the first group is used for normal force and a bit above. So lifting a moderate amount a bunch of times just wears out the first set of muscles, which causes them to take the body's calories to be restored, but usually not built up. When you lift above the ability of the first set, the second set is forced to help, but since those muscles are under-utilized, they need the extra calories to rebuild themselves bigger than before in order to compensate. I hope that's not too confusing
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Sorry, I added that in an edit while you were posting.
protein does help you build muscle, but the calories combined with the heavy lifting make it happen faster. So taking a billion protein pills is nothing without the calories to provide the conversion energy. Its like having lumber to build a house, but only one person to build it.
and conversely, taking in a bunch of calories with no protein is like having a thousand guys to help you build, but no materials for them to use