Diet and nutrition has always played an important part in mixed martial arts. It even goes as far as separating the winners and champions from the fighters who simply make up the numbers.
Ask any athlete and they’ll tell you just how important a nutritional and protein rich diet is for optimum athletic performance especially as protein is needed to fuel muscles, repair tissue damage and build muscle.
But you simply cannot rely on supermarkets to get good quality meat. The horsemeat scandal earlier this year was only the latest in a long line of issues to cause outrage at the standard of food available at these ‘convenience stores’.
Its common knowledge that supermarket chicken is pumped full of water and added salt so when you cook it, you’re left wondering where half of its gone!
It’s not even a case of ‘you get what you pay for’. A typical 300g – 500g pack of chicken breast fillets is likely to set you back around £5 at any of the main supermarkets’. A quick scan online and you can get 5kg of Lean chicken breast fillets (45g protein per serving) at Musclefood.com for £25 – that works out at almost half the price of the supermarket offering.
Protein isn’t just about meat. You can big quantities of protein keep your snack cravings under control with Protein Crisps, muffins and even cookies. The taste isn’t compromised despite the low fat content, for example each freshly baked cookie contains a massive 37.5g of Protein and less than 4g fat – a whopping 70% less than what you get in regular cookies, plus they’re soft and wheat free.
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