Introduction and BCAAs for Hypertrophy

Welcome to the ATP Project, interview with Luke Lehman on Hypernutrition Part 2. In today's podcast, Matt, Steve and I continue our discussion with Muscle Nerds founder, Master Trainer Luke Lehman. We continue to discuss why more is not always better. This is the final episode in the two-part series. As I said last week, both podcasts are more conversational in style and differ a lot from our normal podcast format. As always, this information is not designed to diagnose, treat, prevent or cure any condition and is for information purposes only. Please discuss any information in this podcast with your healthcare professional before making any changes to your current lifestyle. Stay tuned, the ATP Project is about to start. Welcome to the ATP Project. Delivering the irreverent truth about health, aging, performance and looking good. If you're sick and tired of being sick and tired, ready to perform at your best or somewhere in between, then sit back, relax and open your mind. as Jeff and Matt battle the status quo and discuss everything health-related that can make you better. So when would you give branched-chain amino acids for someone that wants to grow? How much should they take? So I would probably tend to give them right after the workout. Post-workout? Yeah, probably post-workout. And that's for hypertrophy as well? Yeah, stimulate mTOR a little bit, you know, that type of thing. Or you could take it before, like Steve was saying, you're going to block a little bit of the tryptophan, so you're going to have a little bit more energy during the workout. But you'll burn a lot of those branch chains as part of that workout. At that point, it's just going to jump into the citric acid cycle. So between meals, is there ever a time really for branch chain of me sipping on it? No. No? No, I don't think so.