What to Eat After a Workout?

 eat after  workout

Here is a detailed guide to optimal nutrition after workouts....
nutrition after workouts

Eating After a Workout Is Important....

To understand how the right foods can help you after exercise, it's important to understand how your body is affected by physical activity.....


  After your workout, your body tries to rebuild its glycogen stores and repair and regrow those muscle proteins.....
Eating the right nutrients soon after you exercise can help your body get this done faster. It is particularly important to eat carbs and protein after your workout....

Doing this helps your body:


*Decrease muscle protein breakdown.
 muscle protein

 *Increase muscle protein synthesis (growth).
Increase muscle

 *Restore glycogen stores.

 *Enhance recovery.
Enhance recovery

1.Protein, Carbs and Fat..

Protein Carbs and Fat

 protein, carbs and fat — is involved in your body's post-workout recovery process....

2.Protein Helps Repair and Build Muscle..

Repair and Build Muscle

exercise triggers the breakdown of muscle protein ...

 The rate at which this happens depends on the exercise and your level of training, but even well-trained athletes experience muscle protein breakdown .....

 after a workout gives your body the amino acids it needs to repair and rebuild these proteins. It also gives you the building blocks required to build new muscle tissue...

3.Carbs Help With Recovery..

Carbs Help With Recovery

Your body glycogen stores are used as fuel during exercise, and consuming carbs after your workout helps replenish them.....

 The rate at which your glycogen stores are used depends on the activity......

 For this reason, if you participate in endurance sports (running, swimming,  etc...

  you might need to consume more carbs than a bodybuilder.....
swimming

 write by ANKESH MIHIR