Don’t Sabotage Your Workout
You have just bust your but exercising and are about to reach for you “energy drink or bar”. Be careful, did you know that what you eat directly after exercising – approximately within two hours –could significantly impact the health benefits you are trying to achieve by exercising.
Read labels and avoid SUGAR especially high-fructose corn syrup! Consuming sugar within this post-exercise window, will negatively affect both your insulin sensitivity and your human growth hormone (HGH) production.
Recently, a study in the Journal of Applied Physiology found that eating a low-carbohydrate snack or meal after aerobic exercise will enhance insulin sensitivity. Why is this good? Because impaired insulin sensitivity or resistance, is one of the underlying cause of type 2 diabetes and also a major risk factor for other chronic illnesses, such as heart disease.
Additionally, HGH Magazine explains, consuming fructose, including that from fruit juices, within this two-hour window will decimate your natural HGH production:
"A high sugar meal after working out, or even a recovery drink (containing high sugar) after working out, will stop the benefits of exercise induced HGH. You can work out for hours, then eat a high sugar candy bar or have a high sugar energy drink, and this will shut down the synergistic benefits of HGH. … If you miss reaching HGH release during working out, you will still receive the calorie burning benefit from the workout. However, you'll miss the HGH "synergy bonus" of enhanced fat burning for two hours after working out.
This is an extremely important fact to remember if you want to cut body fat and shed a few pounds. The University of Virginia research team demonstrated that carbohydrates are burned during exercise in direct proportion to the intensity of training. Fat burning is also correlated with intensity. However, the actual fat burning takes place after the workout, during the recovery. This makes the "Synergy Window," the 2 hour period after a workout, very important in maximizing HGH, once it's released during exercise.”
"Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
" ~ Buddha Be Healthy, Stefanie RN, BSN, FNP-s MEP-C
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