Pre and Post
Workout Nutrition
When working out you have to have an
understanding of what you are going to do afterwards. Are you going to eat a fried chicken dinner,
are you going to take a nap, are you going to watch TV and eat a whole bag of
Funyuns. YOU SHOULDN’T!!! After working out it is best to eat a good
balance of food and drink to replace what you just lost through working
out. So, while exercising you are
(hopefully) sweating a lot and losing sodium, vitamins, and basically
energy. If you finish working out and
don’t replace these things, you are not going to see as good of results as you
could be.
Pre-Workout is mostly about energy
for getting ready for working out.
Pre-workout could be anything from taking supplements to eating shortly
before to just consuming a Gatorade or Powerade product. Pre-workout is not as important as post-workout
but it can help you with your performance while exercising and could help you
with gains. One example could be eating
a meal with lots of carbohydrates in it like pasta or potatoes. Carbs are what give you energy and eating
carbs before a workout could help you with your performance in the gym. There are also many different types of
pre-workout supplements, this is a little more extreme but could really help
with results. Most of them have special
chemicals that could help increase strength and muscle but they are not
steroids. One other thing that works
well if you just want more energy to work out and not get so tired from doing
it are these new Gatorade chews, they taste a bit odd but work great if you
just want more energy.
Post-workout is very important for
exercising, you can not worry about pre-workout and be perfectly fine, but
post-workout is vital. After your
workout you are so tired and sore and you are deprived of the vitamins, sodium,
and protein in your muscle fibers. So one
of the most common things to do is to plan your workout just before a meal or
to buy protein bars, powders, or other protein based workout supplement. The best thing to do is to get about forty
grams of protein after a workout. Another
major thing that you could do is to eat a type of treat or dessert after
working out, because you have used your muscles so much and have burned glucose
and sucrose and many other sugars in your body that it is best to get it
back. So yes after a hard workout you
can go have your cake, frozen yogurt, or ice cream as long as its fat free.
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