Fitness Tip

prsaxman said:

Got this in the e-mail today:

"Protein is important to a healthy body and should be part of
practically every meal. The only exception: Any meal, drink or snack
eaten within the hour before exercising. Those pre-workout meals
should contain primarily carbohydrates, which will maximize your
muscles' energy stores. Having more "fuel" in your muscles will allow
you to work out longer and stronger, thereby improving your fitness
gains. The post-workout meal is a different story. In addition to
carbohydrate, this meal should contain protein to help your muscles
become stronger, more toned and/or more aerobic."

What are your thoughts? Agree? Disagree? Why? What are you pre/post
workout meal strategies?

God Bless

prsaxman

Elzi would be the one to answer this.

As for what I do...I usually do a milk protein shake with a banana or
cranberries pre-workout, then sometimes another one without the fruit after.
That's just me. I do the pre-WO shake about an hour prior to WO.
--
-Larry

prsaxman said:

Got this in the e-mail today:

"Protein is important to a healthy body and should be part of

practically

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every meal. The only exception: Any meal, drink or snack eaten within

the

Quoted message said:

hour before exercising. Those pre-workout meals should contain

primarily

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carbohydrates, which will maximize your muscles' energy stores.

Having more

Quoted message said:

"fuel" in your muscles will allow you to work out longer and

stronger,

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thereby improving your fitness gains. The post-workout meal is a

different

Quoted message said:

story. In addition to carbohydrate, this meal should contain protein

to help

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your muscles become stronger, more toned and/or more aerobic."

What are your thoughts? Agree? Disagree? Why? What are you pre/post

workout

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meal strategies?

God Bless

prsaxman

It's hard to generalize about how food's effect in itself is making me
feel, but it seems like I generally need both carbohydrates and protein
sometime beforehand to have the potential to perform at peak
performance.

And there's usually a big difference (to me anyway) between my peak
performance and my performance when I'm feeling just average (based on
what I've eaten or other things). Peak performance means a vertical
leap of almost 31 inches, whereas non-peak performance means 27-28 or
so (one of my goals is to dunk, thus that's why I bring vertical up).
The same was true of my bench press performance though, when I was more
fixated on the bench and did it more often.

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Quoted message said:

Got this in the e-mail today:

"Protein is important to a healthy body and should be part of practically
every meal. The only exception: Any meal, drink or snack eaten within the
hour before exercising. Those pre-workout meals should contain primarily
carbohydrates, which will maximize your muscles' energy stores. Having more
"fuel" in your muscles will allow you to work out longer and stronger,
thereby improving your fitness gains. The post-workout meal is a different
story. In addition to carbohydrate, this meal should contain protein to help
your muscles become stronger, more toned and/or more aerobic."

What are your thoughts? Agree? Disagree? Why? What are you pre/post workout
meal strategies?

Unless you're dieting I don't believe your muscle glycogen would be depleted to
the point where you would have to use a pre-workout meal to get it up to snuff.
Personally my pre-workout meal strategy, when I've been careful enough to
implement one, has been to get a high protein meal in about an hour beforehand
so the protein is broken down and ready to be absorbed by the time I'm done
working out. Then post-workout I have a high carb, high glycemic drink to get
the muscle glycogen replenished, spike the insulin and aid in the protein uptake
and synthesis.
ps

Hey ps,

That is a very well-thought-out response...I'm interested to hear more
about what you know regarding this. I just posted a topic about this
on the group and maybe I can get some pointers to try and understand
about lean growth development, and if there's any dietary
changes/things I can try to maybe help get some more optimization out
of my workouts. I do pay close attention to both my workouts (detailed
spreadsheets) and my diet (more detailed spreadsheets) so I can
*easily* correlate dietary content to workout performance just by
comparing the data.

Mike