Post Workout Meal - The Crucial Part To Building Muscles

"Post Workout Meal and Breakfast are the most important meals of the day". It doesn't mean that you have to skip all other meals or make them value less. To increase muscles you need to eat a balanced meal six times a day. But without having a proper post workout meal you are simply wasting your time in the gym doing the hardcore workouts, strength and endurance training.

You should take two post workout meals to get better results. One meal should be taken within half an hour of your training and other should be taken after one hour. The first meal should contain a portion of fast releasing protein like whey protein shake and high GI Carbohydrates like white bread or white rice products. The fast acting proteins right after the training helps to repair the muscles fast. Enough carbohydrates are needed to refill the muscle carbohydrates/energy stores.

The second meal should contain a portion of slow releasing proteins like chicken breasts and low GI carbohydrates like brown rice or brown bread.

Even though good fats are vital to build muscles, they should be avoided right after training because it slows down digestion. In this case its slows the digestion of Proteins and Carbohydrates.

Another benefits of postworkout meal is that they rarely turns to fat. So 50% of your daily carbs should come from postworkout and break fast meals. That being said, you cannot eat cookies and junk foods and hope it build muscles. You need to eat clean throughout the day, unless the planned cheat meals.