Another Vote to the Protein Shake Close to Workout Time

You already know about the so called “metabolic window”. That’s the 2-hour period right after the workouts when your body assimilates nutrients twice as fast as during any other times. This is also the time when you are less susceptible to storing the carbohydrates as fat.

In a recent study seventeen men were divided in two groups – one group drank protein shakes immediately before and after the workout, the other group – 5 hours outside of workout time.

What the researchers discovered was after just ten weeks the group who had protein shakes on both sides of their workouts gained twice as much muscle, compared to those who had their shakes wide apart.

The conclusion: Drinking a fast digestible protein shake should be a priority prior to your workout to help your muscles, fueling the training session. This way you will use up less of your own muscle during an intense session and more of the nutrients in your blood stream.

Also, down one protein shake right after it to immediately stop the catabolic process, induced by the pain levels and the micro tears of the muscle fibers, and to start rebuilding the damaged tissues right away.