I've never used non-plant protein regularly so I can't make the comparison. As for muscle aches, I find the recovery time to be significantly less when my diet is plant based overall. I also get muscle spasms after exercise and using magnesium tablets helps me with that A LOT
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Replying to @coshteiner
Interesting. I don't get spasms but I do take L-Glutamine and BCAAs before working out which really help with energy during. Are you vegetarian?
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Replying to @o_guest
I've heard good stuff about both especially BCAAs. I dont take anything else. I'm not weight lifting or even going to the gym. At the moment I'm only playing amateur league basketball
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Replying to @coshteiner
Oh, but that's still a workout! Nice. I'm a full-time pescitarian 100% for 2 years (before that once-a-week I ate chicken, and before that I used to eat red meat). I do gym and bouldering and the DOMS from both was out of this world for months. Like literally walking like Kryten.
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Replying to @coshteiner
I think people who have lower testosterone store less sugar in their muscles, not sure but something like that? So I think my muscles are just particularly bad at having stores of energy and they really do not sustain exercise without extra help (pills, etc)...
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I have periods where if I haven't eaten even after a few hours (depends what and how much I ate of course) I feel genuinely faint and NEED to eat. I am generally quite small/thin so I can see how there might not be a lot of space to store energy in my muscles.
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My strength is getting out of control though so much so that I often break stuff w/out realising. I can arm press more than half my weight, so it's a little weird when people realise as like I said I'm not hypertrophic/super pumped (what people typically think strong looks like).
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Replying to @o_guest
Strength doesn't only come from muscles so you must have a very high neurological strength
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OK, wow, I totally see how this all makes sense.
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