Dump Your “Old School” Way of Thinking! Eat Before Your Workout
By Skip La Cour
Six-Time National Champion Bodybuilder
Success Coach
Many Bodybuilders Adopt a Pre-Workout Eating Plan that Leaves the Muscles Starving for the Nutrients They Need to Grow
This mistake happens when bodybuilders don’t eat anything before their workouts.
Here’s the challenge:
“I never eat before I work out. I’ll burn more body fat by training on an empty stomach. I can’t figure out why I’m not building the amount of muscle I think I should.”
Intense weight training and cardiovascular training literally drain the limited protein stores your muscles carry. Within a very short period of time after you start training, you’ll be running on empty. That’s incredibly detrimental to muscle growth and repair. Those harmful effects are magnified the more intensely you train during your workout. It’s important that you have an efficiently burning source of protein in your body that can be quickly accessed during your workouts. The protein source should also be consumed with a high-glycemic source of carbohydrates.
Training in general, whether it is cardiovascular or with weights, lowers your blood sugar levels. When your blood sugar levels have been lowered, they have difficulty getting the protein they need to maintain their size. Consuming high-glycemic carbohydrates spikes your blood sugar levels and actually forces the high-quality protein you consume with those high-glycemic carbohydrates into your ravenous muscles.
Take Action and Do This NOW!
I took my nutritional habits to the next level when I started utilizing an intelligent pre-workout plan. If you want to make sure you preserve as much muscle mass as possible, you should start eating a small protein-based meal with high-glycemic carbohydrates before every one of your weight training and cardiovascular training sessions.
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July 9, 2009 at 1:20 pm
How many grams of protein and carbs to you recommend prior to my workouts and how long before the workout should I consume. I workout at 5am before work. I usually workout on an empty stomach with just a pre-workout drink.
July 9, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Well I try not to eat before a workout because then I cant do effectivly some of the exercise espiecally the stomach.
Another thing is when you starve you body react differently like a Lion