<p>My daughter who is slender and lanky is playing rugby. While she is strong, rugby involves much more body contact than her other sports and she wants some * padding*!</p>
<p>Since you don’t wear pads as equipment in rugby, that means she has to add it to her frame.
I wasn’t looking for steriodal type additions ( although I do know that some types of amino acids and such are good to add)- I bought a box of tigers milk bars ( I used to buy the mix, many years ago- remember when carob was the big thing?)</p>
<p>But anyone have experience with this?
Something that adds protein and calories but doesn’t taste disgusting?</p>
<p>Whey protein powder. Son buys it at GNC but I’m sure you can get it anywhere. Different flavors,too. He puts it in oatmeal or makes a shake. He says your body can only absorb so much protein during the day and he spaces his protein out. He is totally into health and natural stuff . He’s into weight training and running but not getting too bulky.He just can’t seem to get enough protein at school. The banana cream and strawberry vanilla smell great.</p>
<p>Oh and he is huge on fat free cottage cheese. Total protein.</p>
<p>Son has used a product called “Designer Whey.” A drawback of protein shakes is they’re very filling. Which makes you eat less, and therefore lose weight if you’re not careful. And athletes still need lots of carbs to burn, if they don’t eat carbs, they’ll just burn their protein (or fat, but most athletes aren’t fat). Eat enough carbs to burn as fuel so the protein can go toward building muscle.</p>
<p>I was with you right until that last part… “but doesn’t taste disgusting” LOL… sorry!
My son makes the whey protein milkshakes. Just bought a 5 lb jug off Amazon.com. (let me check) label says “instantized WHEY gold standard” He says it’s not as bad tasting as some of the other stuff he tried.</p>
<p>Son uses something called Mass-Tech, weight gain formula. I’m not sure if he buys of internet or at GNC. He started using as with the ADD meds, he was having trouble maintaining or gaining weight while keeping up his work-out routine. He has liked it (could be placebo effect). Usually, at home, he also throws in some extra fruit with it in blender and sometimes ice milk. He usually drinks it between meals, after his work-out.</p>
<p>D went with a GNC product too like Weight Gain 2000 or some such. Pretty expensive. Tasted good. She did it because she weighed 140 trying to play as a freshman against girls who outweighed her by 40 pounds at least. D played the 5 with a 3’s body. :eek: That and short reps with heavy weight in pre-season would allow to play at 148 as a freshman up to 151 as a senior. Not much but she felt it helped since it was muscle not fat.</p>
<p>“Designer Whey” is the only one my son likes. And it works, too! He is very lean and can definitely tell a difference when he uses the protein. His muscles fill out. Health food stores often have little single-serving pouches of various brands you can try before spending $$ on a large container.</p>
<p>Is this NCAA rugby or any other competition level where there is drug testing? If so, be cautious about supplements. Some of them are either contaminated or spiked with varying amounts of anabolic steroids that are not listed on the label but are more than enough to make an unsuspecting athlete test positive. Be particuarly wary of products that are aimed at body builders or that have names like “Muscle Blaster Ten Thousand!”</p>
<p>I don’t think that would work
protein supplements don’t necessarily have steroids- but it sounds like the powders don’t always disperse well
I bought several odwalla protein drinks and tigers milk ( with whey and soy)
and see if that helps at all, of course by the time it does anything rugby season will be over and she will be into her summer position of lifeguard training- still more bulk will help.</p>
<p>I do like chili sometimes, but canned chili is high in salt and I bet it isn’t organic beef.( I am so picky about food- I wont even buy yellow corn products even if they are organic because yellow corn is cross contamined with GM corn)</p>
<p>Its just a club team- three volunteer coaches although they do have a trainer who comes to the games</p>
<p>She also likes tofu, I like that better than meat-I would be a vegetarian if I didn’t have to cook for the other two members of the household who are ectomorphs and I 'm the one who does the cooking! :)</p>
<p>My skinny son started using the Gold Standard “ON” whey (chocolate) and mixes it with milk. He has noticed a difference within the first couple of weeks. He works out with weights and runs several times a week. His biggest problem is not eating enough (before the whey). Hope that doesn’t make that issue worse! In any case, this is the best brand he’s tasted.</p>
<p>Smart girl! Adding more meat is not a good idea, imo, because of the bad health effects. (Not that I’m biased or anything, being a vegetarian, ha.)</p>
<p>Tofu is very healthy to eat on a regular basis but won’t add bulk quickly the way the whey protein does. </p>
<p>The Designer Whey does not have any nasty steroids or any bad ingredients. And it mixes well. It’s one of the best protein supplements in terms of quality ingredients.</p>
<p>Sons high protein diet: chicken, salmon and other fish, soy nuts,beans (lots of beans) peanut butter, cottage cheese, high protein cereal and oatmeal, brown rice,yams, and whole wheat pasta as carbs. I wish I had his mind set.</p>
<p>Do theses help you grow taller? My son loves and plays football, but unfortunatly is too short. He keeps on training and is good, but being taller would definetly help him. Does anyone know what could help him. He is going to be 16 in couple of months.</p>
<p>Mom99, I don’t know if there is anything that will help him get taller in such a short time. But, I do believe that my son reached his height potential due to the diet and unique supplements he was brought up on. I am VERY short, all 9 of my siblings are very short, and hubby and his siblings are all 5’8" yet son is 5’9" - how did that happen? You can’t change genetics but you CAN nudge it a bit to get the best out of the genetics you have. PM me if you want to know what I think helped him.</p>
<p>My son also watches his diet much better than I do. He eats lots of chicken, fish, very lean beef, low fat yogurt and complex carbs such as raw vegetables, salad greens, whole wheat bread products, brown rice. This is why he can’t wait to move away from dorm life and have a kitchen of his own.</p>
<p>Lots of good suggestions here protein-wise. Another good place to look for protein is in the vegetarian section of your local grocery. There’s lots of good products with soy protein… garden burgers, boca burgers, soy “sausage” patties, soy “chicken” nuggets, etc. all are moderately low in fat and carbs with lots of good soy protein. </p>
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<p>As long as it’s natural peanut butter (the danger with the commercial ones if often the amount of sugar they dump in!), it should be okay. You can eliminate some of the fat by buying the unmixed natural kind (Adams is pretty good) and pouring most of the oil off before mixing it in. Really though, most of the fats you’ll be getting from the peanut butter are the “healthy fats” anyway and the extra calories are necessary to build muscle. When compared with other spreads like butter and jam, peanut butter actually is packed with many more nutrients.</p>