WHAT you eat and WHEN you eat it can make all the difference in your results! Without the right fuel at the right times, sustainable athletic goals will be left in the dust, and health may be compromised. So let’s look to science for the information that will lift us up to become the most that we can be. TRAIN & EAT TO BUILD: When it comes to muscle gain the MOST IMPORTANT nutritional factor is calories — specifically, calories from carbohydrates. (Yes, those dreaded, bad rep carbs!) Building muscle REQUIRES systematic -intense- training. Muscle must be challenged and put under stress in order to break down, and then grow back STRONGER and BIGGER. That level of training, called high-intensity or maximal-resistance training, depends PRIMARILY on carbohydrates as the energy to fuel the exercise. Whether female or male, the science is clear that carbohydrate-dense diets give strength-training athletes the ADVANTAGE in their workouts; and the bottom line is, the harder you train, day after day, the more you need to supply your body with carbs in order to build muscle effectively and efficiently. We benefit from an increase in calorie expenditure not only DURING resistance exercise, but also for HOURS AFTER training! Called excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC), the more intense you train, the higher your calorie burn throughout exercise, and the longer and higher the afterburn. Yes! If you fuel yourself well enough to lift multiple sets to failure, EPOC can continue for 24 to 36 hours postworkout. That means long after your workout is over, your body is CONTINUALLY burning through hundreds of calories. Sign me up! Share if you learned something new & pass on the knowledge, or tag a friend!
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:58:10 +0000
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