Strategic Carbohydrates And Workout Nutrition
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Workout nutrition is incredibly important if you want to gain weight and especially if you want to lose fat. You need to focus on getting around 50 grams of carbs as well as 25g of protein during your workout period. If you are trying to lose fat, then you can eliminate the carbohydrates all together during your workout period. You can even go on to use just amino acids during your workout period to help you keep muscle mass while dropping the fat.
What you should and should NOT eat after a workout.
Simply put, aside from water (which you should already know you need) your post workout meal needs to contain 2 things, and it needs to not contain 1. You should be eating protein and carbs. You deffinitly shouldnt be eating fat. More info on the protein and cars you need a little later on. First, let’s start with a quick explanation of why you shouldn’t eat fat after a workout.
Fat is slow digesting and slows down your absorption of other nutrients at the same time.This means those nutrients you are trying to get to your muscles (carbs and protein) don’t get absorbed till after the fat has digested which will be to late.
You want to make a protein, carb mix and sip it through your workout, not just after. This will ensure your blood stream is full of all those good nutrients your body craves. Another important piece of this nutrition puzzle to keep in mind is that amino acids are what we are after for muscle sparing. Since that is the case, you should pick a protein that is as fast acting as possible, or just go with straight BCAA’s if you can afford it.Whey Hydrosolate is a very good choice when it comes to quickly absorbed protein powders.Just ignore the “slow absorbing” protein blends, thats what real food is for.
Have a good Workout.
Talk soon.
-KC
