If you have ever listened to the news, or read a magazine, you may have heard a great deal about ‘meal replacement’ shakes. These are also known as muscle building supplement shakes, and in the media, they do get a bad shake. It is important to understand why, because these muscle building supplement shakes are essential to your bodybuilding goals.
When you hear bad things about these shakes, it is usually tied to someone who replaced all of their normal meals with the shakes, essentially going on nothing more than a liquid diet. This isn’t healthy, for any reason, for any person, and this is why muscle building supplement shakes have gotten a bad rap.
In the sane world of bodybuilding, serious bodybuilders understand that you need a nice combination of solid food and liquids. The liquids do indeed have their place. First, the muscle building supplement shakes are usually water based, and often purchased in powder form, and mixed with water. The water is essential, because water is what moves the nutrients, including the protein, to and through the muscles.
Second, liquid shakes are highly convenient in a very busy world. People no...