Muscle Repair and Muscle Growth
Here’s an approach to muscle repair and muscle growth vs. consuming it. Yuck! I’ve done a bit of research from online websites, fitness magazines and gurus on the subject and I’ve tried to put this together in a non-technical sounding way (as best I can) so that you can have some information to use in your next workout sessions. Please note that gaining muscle mass will also help you burn more calories throughout the day. So shoot for those muscle gains by adding these muscle building secrets to your gym bag.
- 90-120 minutes BEFORE you workout – Eat an energy bar such as the P90X Peak Recovery Bar or an equivalent that has about a 3-2-1 ration of Carbohydrates to Proteins to Fat.
- 45 minutes BEFORE you workout – Take some BCAA’s (Branched Chain Amino Acids), a tablet is easy at 3-4g
- AFTER a good hard 45 minute workout – Mix up a delicious Recovery drink such as the P90X Recovery Formula or equivalent in a 4-1 Carbohydrate to Protein mix. Now there’s sugar in this, but your body needs it! Another 3-4g of BCAA can help too.
So in a nut-shell (nuts are good too…see SuperFoods) knowing what you need to fuel your body with as you exercise during the day is important to our physiology. Muscles need the fuel at different times and we don’t want them to “eat their own” as in a recent Lost In Space movie, but we want to protect them, allow them to recover and to grow. Now if you’re really into digging deep into more of the techie stuff, just look up Catabolism and anabolism as it relates to muscles and exercise.
Now eating throughout the day to help you gain muscle mass is for another story, probably right after this one! Chow!
