The Anabolic Window!

[ajdos]

Science or no science really -after training Im starved, I have done this for years, maybe I have been duped? I dont really care seeing as what I have been doing has clearly been working....guess I use some brotelligence.....sue me.

 

[Gstacker]

To me breakfast is the second most important meal....#1 being pwo

We all know u can find studies to disprove anything but to me that's as true as the sky's blue.

 

[ajdos]

To me breakfast is the second most important meal....#1 being pwo

We all know u can find studies to disprove anything but to me that's as true as the sky's blue.

Bump this!

 

[Qwerty1424]

Cutler says Breakfast... Post workout and Pre workout most important things of the day

 

[afton]

Science or no science really -after training Im starved, I have done this for years, maybe I have been duped? I dont really care seeing as what I have been doing has clearly been working....guess I use some brotelligence.....sue me.

+1. Whether its true or not I'm the same. Don't care about this or that research because I know it works for me. I made much better and faster gains when I added dex/malto mix to my whey post workout and when I added a solid food meal an hour after that.

 

[Littleguy]

Well the body being how it is the feeling of "hunger" is being sent by the messenger and when it speaks you should listen, it only makes sense that after a period of heavy exertion you will be craving some food to refuel your muscles, glycogen stores etc... are depleted, I am a believer in the timing of adding nutrients when you need them as it is a fact that the body will cannibalize itself if necessary.
I prefer to rebuild rather than breakdown hard earned muskles!






But I am not a "guru" so take it for what it is)

 

[IronInsanity]

Well the body being how it is the feeling of "hunger" is being sent by the messenger and when it speaks you should listen, it only makes sense that after a period of heavy exertion you will be craving some food to refuel your muscles, glycogen stores etc... are depleted, I am a believer in the timing of adding nutrients when you need them as it is a fact that the body will cannibalize itself if necessary.
I prefer to rebuild rather than breakdown hard earned muskles!






But I am not a "guru" so take it for what it is)

I don't think that if you're hungry then eat is the basis for the "anabolic window." To this I agree. I also drink a shake after working out then try to eat a meal shortly thereafter. I just don't do it because I'm afraid of missing out on the magic window. And while catabolism is a real possibility, it is not after just a few hours. The body really doesn't work that way.

 

[Fitter x]

I just eat. I try to eat clean, but if I can't then hotdogs and twinkies do just fine.

 

[ketsugo]

Ha ha I have those moments when I use the window to get a Wendy's twisted frosty shake with Oreo

 

[IronInsanity]

Ha ha I have those moments when I use the window to get a Wendy's twisted frosty shake with Oreo

That's the drive-thru window! LMAO

 

[ajdos]

Honestly II I am a little leary of that article you posted....I am a man of science. But I really get irritated when science creates double standards.
Science showed us before that pwo nutrition was important...now we got some academic saying he proved it wrong. I got to say just from pure observation he sounds like some self righteous type whos just out to prove something wrong for the sake of showing the world how much he thinks he may know.
To me the answer is much more simplistic and I truly dont need science or an explanation. If you eat every 2 hours, and have a pre-workout meal say 30-45 minutes before you lift then by the time you finish lifting its time to eat anyways...his logic is almost like saying you can skip meals and it wont make a difference.
Now science has proven that hormonally the body undergoes certain changes during and after the workout..insulin sensitivity being one of them, so who wouldnt want to take advantage of that?I dont care about this guys 'science' one bit, Im not gonna post up any complex hormonal studies and double blind anythings... I dont care and its guys like him who take science and take it to that kind of extreme that I have a problem with...its science proving science wrong. Personally Im going bro-science on this one, and Ill keep getting my grow on thanks.

 

[goldy]

To me the answer is much more simplistic and I truly dont need science or an explanation. If you eat every 2 hours, and have a pre-workout meal say 30-45 minutes before you lift then by the time you finish lifting its time to eat anyways...his logic is almost like saying you can skip meals and it wont make a difference.
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bingo!!!!!

i have shake 30 minutes prior, shake during, get home and have a shake. about an hour later eat real food again.