Today's post is a subject that really needs to have a
spotlight put upon it. We're eating cleaner, we're adding
exercise and we're taking our vitamins but there is a
special time that is often overlooked that can yield
faster results in our efforts to become a much better you!
After Exercise is often called The Golden Hour.
That is because (now bear with me, we may get technical)
our Clycogen stores are down and Protein Synthesis is
starting it's process. Tissue and muscle breakdown is
occurring and the body needs to repair itself! Whether
you are an endurance athlete or trying to increase muscle
mass you run the risk of missing out on a profound
Anabolic potential to help you maximize gains!
So what can you do to take advantage of this? Eating
some quality proteins and some carbs, yes even a whole
white bagel is good at this time as it will aide in rushing our
protein to our starving muscles. Fish, Turkey and eggs are
great sources of protein! But by the time we end our
workouts and get home to cook our window of opportunity
may have already shut! Once insulin resistance sets in
at around 2 hours you have the potential for net muscle
mass loss! All that hard work in the gym absolutely lost
because optimum nutrition has once again been
underestimated for it's potential to stimulate in terms
of Glucose and protein synthesis (muscle repair!)
There is a much faster way to take advantage of this
Golden Hour! Drinking a high protein drink will get
the results that we are after. Especially when you have
to shoot straight to work after your gym time! So what
we would want is Whey Protein which digests the fastest
and will give our muscles a much needed bloodbath of
Protein, amino acids and minerals it needs to repair itself!
So I hope this shined a light on something that you
may not have known about or reminded you of something
that you needed to add back in. I also hope that you also
Maximize Gains in everything you do, each and every day!
By the way you can get your Protein and everything
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D.V
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I often have a protein shake after exercising. I'm not so sure about the carbs you mentioned, though.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by Daniel! Yes this is one of the times where you could actually have a high carb and actually get away with it because after an intense bout of exercise our glucose levels are depleted. So adding a Carb during our Golden Hour will replenish this AND since our metabolism is skyhigh at that moment we wont have to worry that it would be added as body fat to the body!
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