NitrogenBloom

The Secret of Post-Workout Nutrition

Published on Saturday, March 6, 2010 by

For athletes, diets rich in carbohydrates optimize muscle glycogen levels, and high levels of muscle glycogen improve endurance, exercise performance. The magnificent achievement of glycogen levels is not only a matter of eating lots of carbohydrates, however, when carbohydrate intake is important. Thus, consumption of carbohydrate immediately after exercise endurance or total daily resistance re-synthesis of muscle glycogen, compared with eating the same amount of carbohydrates during the day or postponement of the consumption of carbohydrates to a couple of hours after exercise. Why carbohydrates to save – and even encourage – the production of proteins? For years exercise scientists have estimated that the underlying mechanism by assisting protein carbohydrate is simply attributes that muscles provide enough carbohydrates for energy to stimulate the production of proteins. However, proteins are made of subunits called amino acids, and the distribution of a very important group of amino acids called branched chain amino acids is regulated by the activity of an enzyme called BCOAD. As expected, a very high protein diet leads to increased activity in the liver BCOAD. Furthermore, when athletes increase their carbohydrate intake, low activity BCOAD. So lush protein carbohydrate intake appears to calm BCOAD.Training necessarily be an impact on the activity BCOAD, chronic training produces a drop in activity in muscles BCOAD. In general, down-regulation "of BCOAD is seen as a positive adjustment, because it means that the muscles, which consist mainly of proteins, are less willing to" break "and are more inclined toward building new structures in the periods of heavy exertion.To see what kind of strategy may be the best diet for athletes who undergo an increase in total training load and who want a maximum output of muscle glycogen and protein to maintain a positive attitude Mark Tarnopolsky and colleagues at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, studied 10 active female athletes in two separate periods a week. The choice of athletes, as the issue is particularly appropriate because the protein most sports-active women are abnormally low in calories and total athletes intakes.The two interventions separately for seven days – a process and a subsequent audit supplementation trial period. During these two studies, the energy of athletes, carbohydrates, protein consumption and patterns are exactly the same: women consume about 2,160 calories per day and 1.4 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight day (and that 86 grams of protein a day). The overall composition of the diet was 58 -% carbohydrate, 16 – and 26% protein -% fat.During the study, both control and post-exercise supplementation groups made use of a beverage produced by Mead Johnson Canada Inc-called "results". 66% of the calories in this quaffable came from carbohydrates, while 23% comes from protein, and 11% came from fat. The post-exercise supplements for athletes absorbed by the "results" immediately after an hour bicycle tours in composition, whereas the control group consumed the same amount of product of Mead Johnson at breakfast, long before tried the bike. As mentioned, the total energy, carbohydrate and protein were identical in both groups, the only difference in the timing of the "results" ingestion.The main results, however, with regard to nitrogen balance, the mass body and performance. When the "results" is taken in practice rather than at breakfast, nitrogen balance was positive, which means simply that the athletes were taking more nitrogen than they lose (which is another way of saying that its stores are increasing protein). If "Results" was taken at breakfast, on the other hand, the nitrogen balance was negative during heavy training (protein is lost). In addition to storing beverages protein "results" immediately after training also prevented the excessive loss of body weight during heavy training. If "Results" drank after training, the athletes lost 1.5 pounds during the seven days of intensive training, but if the "results" was just a new weight loss breakfast was 3.1 pounds, a statistically significant difference . Use

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