I excercise at "Curves" for 30 minutes in the morning. When I arrive home- 15 minutes later I have breakfast... I've sort of heawrd somewhere that eating after doing excersie makes a person gain weigh is this true?
2006-10-10 02:49:13 · 4 answers · asked by Pao 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Absolutely false...
Eating after exercise is the best thing to do because your body is more apt to use the recently used food to rebuild tissue that was damaged during exercise. In addition, you'll be able to quickly replenish your glycogen stores so that you'll be better able to do your next workout.
Also, the food you eat will be less likely to be stored as fat, since your body will be processing it.
From everything I have read, you have about an hour window after your last set to take advantage of these benefits.
2006-10-10 03:00:05 · answer #1 · answered by mchenryeddie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard the opposite- that there is a "window" of about 15 minutes after you exercise that you can eat and burn up the calories extra fast. I don't know how much I believe, though. I've not read anything scientific to back up that claim. I wouldn't worry about it. It's good that you are exercising and concerned with eating right- that's all that matters.
2006-10-10 02:58:27 · answer #2 · answered by forensica 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a professional on the subject, but I know that excercise raises your metabolism pretty much immediatly, and this makes you burn your food more efficiently, so I would have thought it would be better to eat within a short time of excercising.
2006-10-10 02:56:40 · answer #3 · answered by Cass 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually it is better to eat after you exercise because your body is still burning off the calories!
2006-10-10 02:57:24 · answer #4 · answered by question 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋