{"id":311,"date":"2010-01-02T20:40:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T20:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/2010\/01\/02\/protein_for_recovery\/"},"modified":"2010-01-02T20:40:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T20:40:58","slug":"protein_for_recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/archives\/protein_for_recovery.html","title":{"rendered":"Protein for Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rummaging through some old papers, I found a note scribbled by my doctor about how much protein intake someone should have during heavy training.  He said that you should take 0.85 to 1.0 grams\/kg of body weight every day, if you&#8217;re in a heavy training period.<br \/>\nI weigh about 150 lbs., or 68 kg. Therefore, I should be taking in about 68 grams of protein each day.  Looking back on my typical long training day, I&#8217;d actually not eat much until after my swim\/ride\/run &#8211; about 8.5 hours later.  Then I&#8217;d eat a cake of tofu and a bowl of rice, and then a big dinner.  But that doesn&#8217;t add up 68 grams of protein; it&#8217;d often fall short.<br \/>\nFor Ironman CDA 2009, I really was training hard on my long days.  But my recovery would often stretch out to 4 days where I could not do my normal loads until then.  It was not until I started <a href=\"http:\/\/ds.ly\/4y7RJY\">taking extra protein in the form of powder dumped into my normal recovery drink<\/a> that amazingly my recovery was brought in an astounding 2 days!<br \/>\nI never would have thought that I wasn&#8217;t eating enough to recover.  Obviously I was wrong.  Now I supplement with protein powder in my recovery drink regularly to make sure I get enough protein to repair my damaged muscles, and to make sure I am as fully recovered, in as short a time as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rummaging through some old papers, I found a note scribbled by my doctor about how much protein intake someone should have during heavy training. He said that you should take 0.85 to 1.0 grams\/kg of body weight every day, if you&#8217;re in a heavy training period. I weigh about 150 lbs., or 68 kg. Therefore, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-injury-prevention-recovery-healing-and-performance-enhancement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}