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What should I eat postworkout?
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diamonddiceclay
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after lifting you should eat a high protein meal
plornive
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The standard answer would be to consume a large liquid meal of which the calories consist of 60% high-glycemic carbohydrates (buy maltodextrin, dextrose, or both), 40% whey protein isolate, and as close to 0% fat as possible. You could mix 60g maltodextrin with 40g whey protein isolate and drink that immediately after your workout. Don't use fruit, ice-cream, lactose, milk protein, fiber, etc. as these will not help you. They will either slow absorption or replenish liver glycogen stores before muscle glycogen stores (in the case of fruit --- fructose).
A drink will be more immediately effective than solid food. If you are in a situation where you need to eat at a restaurant or something after a workout, I recommend getting a low-fat sandwhich on white bread w/o cheese at Subway. It has high GI carbs (white bread) and protein with little fat. Get it?
A drink will be more immediately effective than solid food. If you are in a situation where you need to eat at a restaurant or something after a workout, I recommend getting a low-fat sandwhich on white bread w/o cheese at Subway. It has high GI carbs (white bread) and protein with little fat. Get it?
the nature boy
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great answer plornive.
Oh and make sure to eat a high protein meal about an hour to and hour and a half later too. That two hour window after training is very important for recovery purposes.
Hell I have a preworkout protein/carb shake too, it also helps with recovery.
Oh and make sure to eat a high protein meal about an hour to and hour and a half later too. That two hour window after training is very important for recovery purposes.
Hell I have a preworkout protein/carb shake too, it also helps with recovery.
FitnessFrk
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post workout you only need about 15-20 grams of whey and 75 grams of simple high GI/GR carbs depending on your body weight. to much protein post workout is counter productive, as it will not go to muscle building. the first meal is to start the recovery process. the meal of real food about 1-1.5 hours after training is to start the muscle building process etc.
i force myself to have the postwork usually after lifting i am not as hungryI suggest spilting your post w/o shake. Right after w/o slam a dextrose (plus creatine, glutamine) shake. Wait 30min and take a Whey protein only shake. Then eat a good meal 30min later.
The dextrose shake will spike your insulin.
The Whey shake is fastly absobed to go straight into the muscles.
The dextrose shake will spike your insulin.
The Whey shake is fastly absobed to go straight into the muscles.
i totally agree with plornives answer though i am just preanswering this question for you as i anticipate it coming from you soon, you can get dextrose at www.supplementdirect.com, it has great prices, 10$ for an 11 lb container (77 servings of 75g. dextrose perserving), it came out to 20$ with shipping for me.
plornive
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I agree with what RGC3 said. I have heard of a study in which it was found that whey protein consumed immediately after a workout with or before carbs was partially converted to glucose in the blood. I'm not sure if the portion converted to glucose had to first break down into amino acids first, but the point is that some of the protein might as well have been carbohydrate. If you break your post workout shake into a carb shake and a protein shake, you will get more use out of the good amino acid profile of whey.
