BCAA Versus Whey

If you are weighing the options between BCAA (Branch Chain Amino Acids, leucin, isoleucine and valine) vs Whey Protein, use these 4 factors to help you decide:

1. Your Workout

BCAA is known to help increase your stamina, making it a great option for endurance training and long-duration workouts, like training for marathon, but if you are planning on sticking to moderate workouts, whey protein provides you with all the essential amino acids you will need to properly recover.

2. Your Macros

If you are tracking macros, you may want to use BCAA because it can help increase muscle mass and assist in reducing muscle soreness and fatigue after your workout without a lot of calories, carbs, or fats. But if building lean muscle (the type of muscles that do not contain an extra amount of fat) is not your goal, it may be a better idea to stick to whey protein for your post-workout recovery.

3. Weight Loss

BCAAS may be the best choice because of their lower calorie content.

4. Cost

BCAA supplements are much more expensive than whey. And when you also take into consideration the fact that whey protein already contains BCAAs, you will prefer to use whey protein after each workout.

**** Whey protein is 25% BCAAs, so you do not need to take BCAA if you take whey.

**** Consuming just BCAAs for muscle protein synthesis (MPS) is like turning on a light switch when there is no power supply. You can flip the switch all you like, but you wont get any light (MPS) without electricity (other amino acids). With whey, we get the rest of the essential amino acids (EAAs)

****BCAAs, particularly leucine, are important for optimizing the signal to build muscle, but you need the rest of the amino acids to actually build muscle.

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