Best smoothies for weight loss and muscle gain

Need help with your meal prep? Muscle building smoothies are a great way to supplement your meal prepping.

Increasing muscle mass can be a tedious process.

Anyone courageous enough to stick to the challenge is well aware of how hard it can be to balance your caloric intake.

The amount of planning involved is typically what makes or breaks a person.

Meal prepping is key, and muscle building smoothies are one simple method to make the planning that much easier.

In our experience, we’ve found that having a readily available meal on hand can be a crucial element to success.

It's easier to make better choices if you make them in advance.

It’s also easier to grab a container from the fridge than to prepare a new meal every time we’re hungry.

Find a healthy combination of ingredients you can tolerate, bag them all up, and toss them in the freezer for long-term storage and easy access.

When you're ready, just put it into the blender and you've got a meal!

Simplify your meal prep with the five great muscle building smoothies below!

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Our 5 Favorite Muscle Building Smoothie Recipes

Of the high protein smoothies that I have personally tried, these five worked the best for my taste buds.

Everyone is different, so you’ll have to find what works for you.

If you're using the best sources of protein, a smoothie will be a healthy addition to your diet and help you consume the amount of protein you're aiming for.

These muscle-building smoothie recipes are a great place to start.

Breakfast Protein

Start the day off right with this muscle-building smoothie for breakfast.

It’s commonly recommended to get at least 30 grams of protein in the first 30 minutes of the day, so a smoothie of this magnitude is perfect for breakfast.

This recipe contains about 40 grams of protein, and that’s without using protein powder!

• 1 cup strong coffee, frozen into ice cubes
• 1 banana
• 1 cup almond milk
• 1/3 cup plain or vanilla Greek yogurt
• 1 tablespoon chia seeds
• 1 tablespoon hemp seeds
• Powdered eggs, raw eggs, or protein powder

Blue Berry Spinach

Using frozen produce is a great way to thicken up your smoothies.

Bananas and blueberries are one the more delicious combination for almost any muscle-building smoothie.

This recipe is a little sweet for most people, so be generous with the spinach and light on the blueberries.

• ½ cup frozen blueberries
• 1 medium banana
• 2 tablespoon old-fashioned oats/seed of choice
• 1 tablespoon almond butter
• 1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk
• 1 date
• 1 handful of spinach
• 1 scoop of protein powder

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Peanut Butter and Banana Smoothie

Peanut butter and banana is a classic combo that cannot go ignored.

Fortunately, there are lots of new and healthy types of nut butter on the market now.

My local grocer even has a machine that blends fresh nuts into butter, which is amazing because you know there are no unwanted ingredients.

This muscle-building smoothie contains roughly 60 grams of protein per serving.

Hemp seeds are a great way to boost your smoothies with high-quality protein and loads of other nutrients.

Just be cautious if you start munching on them, as they’re fairly dense with calories.

Just two tablespoons of hemp seeds contain over 90 calories!

• 1 banana
• 1 tablespoon unsweetened peanut butter or hazelnut butter
• 2 tablespoon hemp seeds
• 1 scoop of protein powder
• 2 dates
• ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 cup of almond milk

Veggie Power

This is my personal favorite of the muscle-building smoothies.

I love carrots, broccoli, and spinach, so I always have these around the house.

They don’t exactly taste that great in a smoothie, so it’s a good idea to throw in a banana and some dates.

Peas are also a good addition if you can tolerate the flavor and texture.

Personally, I would rather use pea protein powder than canned peas, but fresh peas taste pretty good if they’re available.

• 6 ice cubes
• ¼ cup baby carrots
• ¼ cup of broccoli florets
• 1 banana
• 1 handful of spinach or kale
• 1 apple
• 1 scoop of protein powder
• 1 date

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The Mid-Day Refresh

This is a refreshing drink to cool down with.

Watermelon or honeydew is also a great addition if have you already have some sliced up.

Don’t steer away from melon seeds or the peeling of the cucumber/apples.

The extra fiber is great for digestion and bowel movements.

Pea protein is a fantastic form of protein that is commonly forgotten about.

It’s a good idea to mix up your protein sources to get a wide variety of protein types.

This will ensure your body has all of the requirements for rebuilding muscle, tissue, fluids, and hormones needed for healthy bodily functions.

• 6 ice cubes
• Lime juice
• Lemon juice
• 1 large whole cucumber
• 1 chopped apple
• 1 scoop of pea protein
• 1 cup of watermelon (optional)

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Key Ingredients for Muscle Building Smoothies

This is just a list of ingredients I have personally tried. Not all fruits and veggies mix well together, and not all of them work well in smoothies.

The best route is to use minimal ingredients and stick to superfoods.

Ginger, for instance, is a commonly recommended ingredient, but it's far too potent for me to add. Tiny pieces are all that I can personally tolerate.

I'm sure some people make some crazy smoothies, but I've found that even if I'm able to drink one loaded with a ton of nutrient-dense vegetables like Brussels sprouts, kale, and ginger, I still end up wasting a good portion of it.

My advice is to stick to as few ingredients as possible. The goal is to create a healthy meal that you enjoy. In other words, don't go smoothie crazy.

Almost any combination of the following ingredients will work well for a smoothie.

I tried to break the protein up by the typical serving for a smoothie, so protein content is just a close approximation.

Base

• Pea Protein 1 scoop (33 grams) – 24 g
• Whey protein powder 1 scoop (33 grams) – 20 g protein
• Hemp protein (33 grams) – 17 g of protein

Vegetables

• Carrots (3 oz) – 1 g of protein
• Celery (1 stalk) – .28 g of protein
• Broccoli (1 cup) 2.5 g of protein
• Baby Spinach (1 cup) – 1 g of protein
• Kale (1 cup) – 2 g of protein
• Collard greens – (1 cup) – 2 g of protein
• Broccoli sprouts  (1 cup) – 2 g of protein
• Cucumber (1/2 cup slices with peel) – .3 g of protein
• Snap Peas (1 cup) – 2 g of protein

Fruits

• Avocado (1 cup sliced) – 4 g of protein
• 1 Average Apple – 0.5-1 g of protein
• Banana (1 medium) – 2.5 g of protein
• Blueberries 1/2 cup – 0.5 g of protein
• Strawberries (1 cup) – 1 g of protein
• Watermelon (1 cup) – 1 g of protein

Additives

• Hemp seeds – 5 g protein
• Peanut butter  (2 tbsp) – 8 g of protein
• Chia seeds (1 tbsp) –  2 g of protein
• Oats (1 tbsp) – 1.6 g of protein
• Spirulina – 4 g of protein
• Maca powder – 1 g of protein per tsp

Sweeteners

• Dates – 0.5 g of protein each
• Almond milk (1 cup) – 1.5 g of protein
• Greek yogurt (1 cup) – 23 g of protein
• Honey (1 tsp) – 0.05 g of protein

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