What to Eat Before and After a Workout
What you eat before and after a workout can make the difference of improving yourself or plateauing. Inorder to make sure that you are improving you need to be eating to help your body recover. Before working out you want to be eating things with high amounts of carbohydrates, whole grains, some simple carbs in specific. You also want to have some simple carbs, some protein and a little bit of good fat ( Monounsaturated and Polyunsaturated). Some examples of good meals or snacks would be wheat bread with some peanut butter and banana or wheat bread with avocado and you could add an egg, oatmeal with blueberries, Grilled Chicken Broccoli And Sweet Potatoes, fruit with greek yogurt, or trail mix. After working out you should be consuming a good amount of
protein to help your muscle recovery, some carbs to resupply your glycogen supply, and a little bit of good fat because after a workout to much fat can slows down digestion and inhibits the absorption of nutrients. Some good things to eat after working out are protein powder mixed with almond milk and fruits, avocado on wheat bread with an egg, chicken or salmon with a small amount of sweet potatoes, greek yogurt with fruit ( could also add protein powder), mixed nuts, dark leafy greens with cottage cheese and nuts, and some many more options. Eatings right can make all the difference in the gym.
the Importance of Preparation
For anyone who is starting a diet or a lifestyle change you can not just decide that the next day you are going to eat clean, and be successful. In order to be successful in your diet or lifestyle change you need to roughly plan out your diet and clean out your fridge to set yourself up for success, not failure. Ever sunday night before the week starts I like to dedicate about 4 hours to cooking healthy meals I can eat during the week this will keep me from eat out and buying other foods I probably should not be eating.If you need any Ideas on good meals to eat or prep for
the week you can go to my recipes section. Now after making all of this food I recommend proportioning them out in to glass or plastic containers so they are grab and go ready which will only make your life easier and easier to stay on track. Your can also put things that go bad fast like salads in mason. This will keep them fresh for longer. This whole process will first off make you life easier during the week, but second will help you stay on track to achieve your healthy goals. Another thing that can really help the process is going to the grocery store right before you meal prep and know what you want to by there before you go. Thought the week have a list going of things you want at the grocery store, look online at healthy meals that you may want to eat and add the ingredients to the list. This will make it so you are not in the store wonder what you need, you just know.
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