What to eat before and after you work out

Before you workout prefer foods with low or moderate glycemic index (GI) because they release energy in your body in a slow and continuous way. They give energy over an extended period of time. After training you should choose food with high GI because they provide the quick energy you need to recover.

If you intend to lose weight, you should take special care to avoid sweets or other foods with high caloric value after training, because at that time if the calories provided by the food are not sufficient to the energy expenditure performed, our body will recruit and spend our fat reserves. At this moment, the metabolism is high, and the body hungry for power, ready to use everything we give him, wasting the minimum, for this reason we must be very careful with what you eat.

If you do a bodybuilding training with the purpose of gaining muscle mass is important to eat food with high content of bioavailable proteins such as meat, preferably white meat, fish or eggs. An omelet made with egg white has few calories and a high protein value.

Foods with soy and other vegetable proteins do not seem to be as effective to help us rebuild our muscle mass as animal proteins.

It is common to use supplements to ingest a large amount of protein with low calories, yet it is important to know what you are doing, and to be well informed otherwise, this resource may be harmful to your health, especially if you have kidney or liver problems or other chronic diseases.