26/08/2026
Mark Mathie Wickedbodz PT take on protein.
Legend hereās my take on protein powders, itās funny how protein doesnāt really get talked anymore. Hasnāt got the clout for the insta flops like peptides or creatine has these days.
Every second week on social media thereās another powder, pill or supplement thatās going to change your life in 8 weeks. We should really get more adventurous with some marketing of our WB protein powdersš
Meanwhile boring old protein just sits there doing its job like it always has.
All my time in this circus of a industry if someone asked me what my number 1 supplement isā¦
It would be protein. šš¼
Not because itās magic. Itās definitely not, but our bodies actually f**king need it. Whether your into the other supps- peptides and the like you still NEED to be hitting your protein levels.
When you train, youāre constantly breaking down muscle tissue and your body needs protein and the amino acids from it to repair and maintain that muscle.
Thatās not Rocket science or bio hacking (as the insta flops like to call it these days). Just facts.
But one thing I still hear after all these yearsā¦
āI donāt want to take protein because I donāt want to get too big or muscly.ā š¤¦š½āāļøš youāre confusing that with steroids or peptides.
Trust me. If drinking a protein shake made you big, every bloke or girl walking around the gym carrying their shaker with the XL travel bag with their creatine and rice crackers with banana and peanut butter in that huge bag would look like Mr Olympia. š¤·š½āāļø
Building a decent amount of muscle is f**king hard, and I mean real hard. Especially if youāre a female.
It takes years of training, progressive overload, enough food, enough protein, genetics, consistency and a s**tload of hard work.
And I most cases ātestosteroneā š
You donāt accidentally wake up jacked because you had an extra scoop of whey after training.
And women especially need to stop being scared of protein because someone told them it will make them ābulkyā. Thats the chocolate bars and healthy Acaiās etc doing that.
If anything, protein becomes even more important when youāre trying to lose body fat.
It should be helping you eat less calories, training hard and trying to hold onto as much lean muscle as possible, this is exactly when getting enough protein matters.
Protein powder isnāt some magical muscle building drug, itās a supplement.
Itās food, Chicken has protein.
Eggs have protein.
Fish has protein.
Beef has protein.
Greek yoghurt has protein.
A protein shake is just a convenient way of getting more of it into your diet without eating so much volume of food per day.
Do you NEED protein powder absolutely not
If you can get enough protein and hit your personal required level from your food every day, f**king perfect.
But if youāre training hard, working all day and trying to consistently hit your protein intake & struggling with the amount of food, having a shake is easy and being the dinosaur in the industry I am, Iāve seen it all come and disappear, come back again with a new label and suddenly become the next āgame changerā not protein. Only thing that changed with it is many years ago they made them take the pictures of muscly guys and girls off as itās was false advertising as such. That was before the instaflop days when people had to be honest. Those days are well gone.
You donāt see many influencers anymore telling you they took a scoop this morning and suddenly felt 6% smarter, s*x drive is frothing and the rest. Cause itās just boring old protein !
Itās not going to magically put 10kg of muscle on you.
Instagram just made everyone think they need something more complicated in fancy tub or in a gummy.
Eat clean , hit you protein
Levels. Actually turn up at the gym THEN have a f**king decent crack šŖš½
Excuses or results - canāt have em both š¤š»š¤š¾:::
