Hitting up the gym and pumping up the iron only gives you those brilliant cuts if you eat the right food. Your body needs a lot of nutrition and protein to fix up the tear in your muscles. You should know the right food to eat before and after the workout. So here we have provided you the foods that you have to have to eat before and after the gym so that you can show off those muscles.
-
Contents
Eggs (before the gym)
Having some boiled eggs before working out would complete your protein requirement when you hit the gym. Do not throw away the yolk as it too contains the essential nutrients that your body requires.
-
Salmon with Soya potato (After the gym)
After pumping up the iron in the gym, the glycogen in your skin starts to reduce. Sweet potato is a good source of the glycogen that will help your body to restore the glycogen levels. Eating up the sweet potatoes would also help you stay energetic throughout the day. There are bioactive peptides present in the Salmon. These peptides help your body to support the joints, maintain the insulin levels and reduce the inflammation.
-
Nut butter, toasted rye (Before the gym)
An hour before hitting the gym, you can have toasted rye with the sugar-free and organic almond or nut butter. This won?t only help you to make you full but also provides you with all the nutritional requirements that your body would want, during the workout.
-
Salad, sweet potato and Quinoa (After the gym)
This meal is completely packed with the protein and the nutrients that your body would ask for after a workout. Quinoa is a grain that has high nutritional value and is recommended as an after food after the workout. The sweet potato with this blend is great as it recovers the body with energy.
-
Tuna salad (Before the gym)
Your aim should never be to reduce the carbohydrates from the food until you want to reduce weight or do the cardiovascular exercises. So if you are doing a cardiovascular exercise, your body would be burning the fat if it doesn?t have the glycogen stores. You can have the tuna as a pre-workout for the same.
-
Blueberries (After the gym)
Blueberries are recommended as an after workout food, as it has a less glycemic index. This property of the fruit would not let a kick in your blood glucose levels. As there is damage caused by the free-radicals due to the workout, blueberries help to reduce it by its anti-oxidants.
-
Wholegrain toast with peanut butter (Before the gym)
Whole grain toast, peanut butter, and the banana make a great combination as a pre-workout food. This is because the combination keeps you energetic as the banana is a good source of the potassium.
-
Chia seeds (After the gym)
The chia seeds help to gain the electrolyte balance in your body after the workout.
