Posts Tagged ‘Nutrition’

What do you take after you workout? Nothing? Water? Gatorade?

The science out there says that during and after your workout you should have a drink with a 4:1 ratio of carbohydrate to protein.  I go with 80 grams of a Dextrose/Maltodextrin mix with a 20g scoop of whey protein, mixed in 24 oz of water.  Yum!

There is a great book out there called Nutrient Timing: The Future of Sports Nutrition
that details what happens in your body during and after exercise, and what you should do during those windows to get the most benefit from your workouts.  I read it a few years back and adhere to its principles to this day.

The short end of all the research is that if you do your workout nutrition right, you will minimize soreness and recovery time while maximizing strength and size gains.

My favorite nutrition author, John Berardi, writes tons of really good articles online, one of which discusses Nutrient Timing and the science behind it.  It is long, but a really good read…The Science of Nutrient Timing.

There is no big secret to sculpting a killer body and staying healthy; rather, results are achieved by consistently following through with good day-to-day habits.

Everyone is different, but the general habits of very lean and healthy people are consistent.  They…

Always eat breakfast

Never skip meals

Always eat in regular intervals, usually every 2-4 hours

Eat vegetables in every meal

Eat lean protein in every meal

Use as little salt as possible

Obtain sugar ONLY from fruits and vegetables

Never eat refined, sugary foods Read the rest of this entry »

Processed food is garbage, even when tightly sealed in the “healthy” veneer of a Weight-Watchers or Kashi package.

Want a highly nutritious, effective and thoughtless nutrition plan?

Buy and prepare only one-ingredient foods that come directly from the earth to your shopping cart – produce, meat, nuts, whole grains.  (Sweet potato is the only ingredient in a sweet potato) Read the rest of this entry »

To supplement is to make stronger, or reinforce, by addition.

I think the modern athlete, bodybuilder and dieter forget this. Often supplements are misused as “replacements.”  These come in the form of shakes to replace whole meals, powdered “superfoods” and “greens” to replace vegetables, multivitamins to replace vitamins and minerals, etc., etc.

The supplement industry is founded on nutritionism, which is the reduction of the value of food to its nutrient parts. Michael Pollan, in his book In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto,  discourages this reductionist view of food, and instead suggests that we all revert to what our ancestors did: eat whole foods.  It’s a book that was an easy and intelligent read, and it changed my view on the manufactured health food products that I was guilty of eating.  I eat more “food” now. Read the rest of this entry »