Why do athletes need high-quality protein?
From sprinting and swimming to cycling and lifting weights, athletes expend much more energy than an average person. To recover from this physical activity, they need to ingest additional nutrition daily. More importantly, athletes need to consume high-quality protein to help repair and strengthen their muscle tissue that is often under stress after the workout. Perfect Protein shares how protein is important for athletes and how cricket powder is the future of food that fulfills this need.
Benefits of protein for athletes
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Promotes satiety
More than carbohydrates and fat, protein promotes the feeling of fullness. For those seeking weight loss, this plays a crucial role in reducing appetite and hunger levels thereby diminishing the calorie intake. Athletes who seek to fuel their bodies for longer durations can also benefit from the feeling of satiety.
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Boosts Metabolism
Besides regulating appetite, consuming protein temporarily boosts metabolism as well. This is because the body uses energy to digest, absorb, and dispose of ingested nutrients. This is called the thermic effect which is found to be highest when protein is consumed. When aiming for ideal body composition or to lose some belly fat, replacing some of the carbs and fats with protein daily helps raise the metabolic rate.
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Maintains Muscles
As the building block of muscles, adequate amounts of protein helps maintain muscle mass and prevents muscle deterioration. Athletes or anyone who walks or cycles a lot must consume enough protein to maintain their higher muscle mass.
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Aids with Muscle Recovery and Growth
Pairing regular activity and exercise with high protein consumption promotes muscle growth and strengthening. High-quality proteins that contain all of the essential amino acids and are rich in branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) such as leucine play a major role in promoting muscle growth and recovery after resistance and endurance exercise.
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Quicker injury recovery
Sometimes natural healing and over-the-counter medications to counter the inflammation caused due to an injury may fail. In those scenarios, an injury may often mean immobilization, which can lead to substantial muscle loss depending on the duration. Protein intake appropriate for the type and extent of injury/surgery can trigger muscle repair and maintenance, improve insulin sensitivity, and speed healing.
How much protein to consume and when?
A moderately active adult must consume between 0.5 – 0.75 grams of protein per pound of body weight. However, a person doing regular resistance training would want to consume between 0.8 – 0.85 grams of protein per pound of body weight.
The timing of protein consumption is crucial for athletes or anyone trying to build muscle. Resistance training stresses the muscles and eating protein right after the workout helps repair the muscle breakdown and further builds upon that muscle.
A high-quality protein such as Perfect Protein’s cricket powder is composed of high quality and volume of protein besides other nutritive values that are essential for an athlete's performance and recovery. This nutrient-dense protein is convenient and offers sustainable nutrition.
Why Perfect Protein?
Perfect Protein, a wholly owned brand of Dalayla farms, creates consumable protein products using 100% sustainably raised crickets from its in-house farm.
- With Perfect Protein, clients have access to flavorful products that are a great source of complete protein with all 9 essential amino acids produced with minimal environmental impact.
- Crickets are very nutritionally dense sources of food. Here is their nutrition profile:
- 65% protein by volume
- High in iron
- High in fiber
- More B12 than salmon
- Gluten-free
- All 9 amino acids
- More calcium than milk
- 15% More iron than spinach
Visit the Perfect Protein farm to see how it works. Call at (716) 597-8656 or visit our shop online at www.crkt.life
