Big Yam: Protein + Sweet Potato, the Ideal Gainer

Gaining muscle mass requires a relatively high calorie intake for athletes. Gaining mass in bodybuilding is a necessary step for bodybuilding practitioners. In fact, some bodybuilding beginners start by practicing a strength sport in order to gain muscle weight because they often have a physique that is too thin. In this case, gaining mass is a necessary step in their physical development. However, eating more than nutritional contributions Maintaining a healthy diet is not easy because it is quite difficult for most of us to eat four to six solid meals in a day.

This principle requires time and preparation, which is not always easily achievable by athletes. In this case, the Gainer option is a simple and practical solution to store more calories with a high-calorie drink. On the other hand, between the maintenance calorie ratio, the quota of calories necessary for muscle development and the risk of excessive nutritional intake, the limits are sometimes difficult to establish...

Gainers provide you with calories in the form of a powder rich in carbohydrates and protein.

Today, most brands of food supplements offer you their Gainers. These are carbohydrates (maltodextrin and simple sugars) combined with proteins ( whey , casein, egg albumin, etc.), sometimes with sources of fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. Composed of a flavored powder preparation (vanilla, chocolate or strawberry flavor, etc.), Gainers are rich in calories and nutrients. But from a commercial point of view, it's often escalating. Some brands like to display ever more calories with ever larger doses. From a physiological point of view, this method is far from being the right one because it will only encourage you to digest too many calories for your metabolism.

High calorie gainers will make you fat but do little to make you gain muscle.

From this, we might think that gainers will help you store more energy, release more strength, and gain more muscle. However, the body has its limits physiologically. If you take in 800 to 1000 more calories per day than you normally eat, there is a good chance that a large portion of these calories will end up being stored as reserve fat. This is because it is not possible to burn massive amounts of calories during exercise, even if your workout is intense, which, by the way, is not humanly possible when you are new to bodybuilding. You will also see that even after years of practicing sports, it is not possible to release an astronomical amount of calories, even if your training bodybuilding is hyper intensive.

Combine a healthy source of carbohydrates with protein to create a nutritionally high quality Lean Gainer

If you follow the advice for using gainers on the market, you will quickly notice that these high-calorie products may provide you with energy with a little extra muscle, but they also provide you with fat that is quickly stored on your abs. In addition, these gainers provide no guarantee as to the quality of the carbohydrates they contain. Some maltodextrins also quite often have a glycemic index as high as sugar itself. But obviously, if you increase your calorie intake without taking into account your real energy needs, it is highly unlikely that this type of strategy will lead you to muscle growth .

If you're looking to store calories without a specific purpose, they'll likely be spent more on your abs than used during exercise. On the other hand, higher-quality complex carbohydrate sources like cyclic dextrin, trehalose, or waxy maize starch are less commonly added to gainers because they're more expensive than standard maltodextrin. Protein quality isn't guaranteed either, far from it. It was from these limiting factors that the idea of ​​creating a healthy gainer rich in high-quality carbohydrates and proteins came to YAM Nutrition.

Big Yam is a healthy source of carbohydrates made from sweet potato flour

Big Yam was developed differently from the gainers found in competitors in the sense that it will not inflict a caloric surplus on you that your body and stomach cannot handle. Thus, the Big Yam contributes to the development of muscle energy and the synthesis of your muscle proteins after weight training, Crossfit, cardio training or endurance training. The “secret” of Big Yam lies in the combination of a pure source of carbohydrates Naturally healthy with an excellent source of protein. Big Yam provides you with whey isolate, which accounts for 40% of the total amount in a serving. Its sweet potato flour also contains a significant amount of micronutrients, without artificial additions of vitamins or minerals.

Sweet potato provides you with healthy carbohydrates and nutrients

Sweet potatoes are an excellent source of carbohydrates, but they are also rich in potassium (about 337mg per 100g). They also contain very little fiber and sugar (only 4g/100g on average). Sweet potatoes do not provide you with fats neither. Its caloric value is moderate with 86 calories per 100g on average. Yam Nutrition's sweet potato flour has been developed from excellent varieties of sweet potatoes, resulting in a delicious and slightly sweet flour, using only the carbohydrates naturally found in sweet potatoes.

With the protein benefits of whey isolate, Big Yam is a delight. In addition to its unique taste, aside from flour and whey, no other forms of sugar, carbohydrates, or fat have been added. But then why would Big Yam be a better gainer when it contains fewer calories than any other gainer on the market?

Big Yam, a Lean Gainer that won't make you fat with excess calories

Obviously, no matter what form of carbohydrates are added to a food product, you can never get more than 4 calories per gram of carbohydrate or protein. For fats, this is 9 calories per gram or 7 for MCT . However, if a gainer contains only simple sugars (with a high glycemic index), it is likely that the insulin release will be higher than if it only contains complex carbohydrates. This defect then causes your body to store sugars as fat rather than helping you release energy gradually. With sweet potato flour, the release of carbohydrates is done gradually to supply your muscles with energy over a longer period of time. This is also why Big Yam does not contain other forms of carbohydrates, in order to promote energy and muscle gain over time.

Big Yam is an ideal Lean Gainer because it provides you with healthy, non-excessive calories to fuel your muscles and stimulate their growth, without storing fat from excess calories or carbohydrates that cannot be used for energy.

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