today i ate a turkey sandwich and an oatmeal bar while training chest. i admit, i had a better workout, not as tired in between sets..etc. is there any beneficial reason why to eat during training?
The digestive process doesn't work that fast. If you ate right before you started training or while you were training, you wouldn't be absorbing those nutrients and using them right away; it takes a while for solid foods to be digested.well u actually have about 5L of blood lol but ya i get ur point about the blood and the muscles...but what about if u eat lean turkey and have the protein going to your muscles while u train. would that be better than blood? and u dont grow while u workout, u grow when u sleep...
i know that. but something light and full of protein would be digested faster so by the time your workout is over it would be being digested and ready to be sent to your muscles...so how does amino acid intra workout drinks work compared to a few slices of turkey during a workout? they both have 2 be digested...why is one ok and the other notThe digestive process doesn't work that fast. If you ate right before you started training or while you were training, you wouldn't be absorbing those nutrients and using them right away; it takes a while for solid foods to be digested.
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Free-from and peptide-bound AA have much different digestion rates. Plus, look at the difference in overall serving sizes (~20g of BCAA/EAA compared to 100+g for lean meats). Bigger sizes take more time, bile, and blood to digest and assimilate into the system.i know that. but something light and full of protein would be digested faster so by the time your workout is over it would be being digested and ready to be sent to your muscles...so how does amino acid intra workout drinks work compared to a few slices of turkey during a workout? they both have 2 be digested...why is one ok and the other not
It doesn't digest that fast- not fast enough to be used instantly. When the protein does finally get to the muscles, it's shuttled by the blood. Whey is fast-digesting, and requires less blood than something like oatmeal or a sandwich. Even though lean meats digest faster than fatty ones, it still takes hours. Especially with the fiber from the bread and/or oats. If you feel like something in your belly helps, I'd go for something like some of the other guys said- whey and Carb drink. I like a bottle of half Gatorade and half water sometimes at the beginning of my wo. Towards the end the carbs are hitting, I've refilled the bottle with water only, and my insulin is primed for my people shake. Hope this helps. Wish you well with your training.well u actually have about 5L of blood lol but ya i get ur point about the blood and the muscles...but what about if u eat lean turkey and have the protein going to your muscles while u train. would that be better than blood? and u dont grow while u workout, u grow when u sleep...
^ ThisFree-from and peptide-bound AA have much different digestion rates. Plus, look at the difference in overall serving sizes (~20g of BCAA/EAA compared to 100+g for lean meats). Bigger sizes take more time, bile, and blood to digest and assimilate into the system.
Bottom line, eating while training is counter-productive because it diverts away crucial blood (and, therefore, nutrients) from the muscles to the digestive system.
Keep your workouts short and intense. After warming up, about 45 minutes is as long as you want to be weight training (no more than 1 hour). Besides losing mental and physical energy, your body will start releasing catabolic hormones. During the first parts of your workout, your body will be releasing anabolic hormones, so take advantage of this by not working out to the point where you go catabolic, then drink your shake. After about 45 minutes or so of intense weight training your body is screaming for amino acids. If you don't give your body what it wants (i.e, whey shake), it's not going to wait around on you; it's going to start eating your muscle tissue for amino acids. The list goes on - trust me, keep your workouts short!personally i tend to train for a while.... anywhee form 1.5 to 2 hours so like an hour to 1hr 15 min into my workout i start drinkin my shake and eating dextrose candies like smarties, sweet tarts etc. I basically do this for 2 reasons .... 1, my body probably needs it after an hour or so and 2nd it lets me have my pwo meal sooner. I dunno if this is optimal (any input guys lol) but i like it, gives me a treat during the workout lol. I also sip on a scoop of extend and a scoop of purple wraath throughout the workout including after i have finished the shake and carbs
When I first started training (ten years ago) me and two other guys would lift for two to three hours. (No knowledge of aminos just post wo shakes.Keep your workouts short and intense. After warming up, about 45 minutes is as long as you want to be weight training (no more than 1 hour). Besides losing mental and physical energy, your body will start releasing catabolic hormones. During the first parts of your workout, your body will be releasing anabolic hormones, so take advantage of this by not working out to the point where you go catabolic, then drink your shake. After about 45 minutes or so of intense weight training your body is screaming for amino acids. If you don't give your body what it wants (i.e, whey shake), it's not going to wait around on you; it's going to start eating your muscle tissue for amino acids. The list goes on - trust me, keep your workouts short!
There are probably hundreds of threads on this forum talking about this, so I'd do some research if I were you. You can go ahead and keep working out for as long as you are but you'll run into a wall pretty quick and you won't see progression anymore. In fact, you're likely to regress.
Peace
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