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Eating before and after exercising
There is a clear advantage for eating before and during longer duration exercise. Using nutrition to strategically recover is essential for those who want to maximise their workouts.
When resistance training, consuming a combination of mainly carbohydrate, protein, and creatine before and after exercise, provide better muscle and strength gains over ten weeks.
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Eating before or after you exercise
Research shows the importance of nutrition for exercise. However, it is not always clear whether it's best to eat before or after you exercise.
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- What you're training for.
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Eating after exercise
Recent research shows that training in a fasted state can lead to efficient fuel use, fat burning, improved blood sugar and hormone regulation. This is helpful when training for a marathon to help delay fatigue.
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Eating before exercise
When we exercise, our bodies use energy, either supplied by carbohydrates stored in our bodies, or from the food we eat.
- If the exercise is demanding or we exercise for a long time, we use more stored carbohydrate.
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