Fat-Burning-Tips 5 : Post Workout Snacks.In this installment of fat-burning-tips, we will be discussing healthy post work out snacks. After your work out your body will need some replenishing. Everybody knows this. However, few people take advantage of the catabolic state that our body is in during the 40-45 min immediately following exercise. This is an ideal time to have a healthy and nutritious post work out snack. The snack should consist of simple carbohydrates and protein. In the book Nutrient Timing: The Future of Sports Nutrition they site a Vanderbilt University Study that shows how people who consumed a carbohydrate/protein supplement immediately after exercise differ from those who have the snack a few hours later. The group who consumed the carbohydrate/protein supplement immediately after exercise synthesized the protein at 3times the rate of those individuals who had the snack a few hours after exercise. Also those same individuals who received the snack immediately after exercise had higher levels of fat oxidation. This means that they burned more fat. A post workout snack that consists of carbohydrate and proteins is ideal for gaining muscle and burning fat. Make sure to have your snack immediately after exercise to maximize nutrient absorption, recovery, and fat loss.
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