Pre-Workout If your last meal was more than five hours ago, have a 100- to 200-calorie snack 30 minutes before your workout. Liquids digest faster, so try milk, juice, Gatorade, or half a smoothie (keep it low-cal by choosing plain, low-fat yogurt and fruit and skipping syrups, powders, and other additions). Mid-Workout You need a [...]
SportsOneSource Media Two-thirds of Division I college football linemen studied were obese, putting them at significant risk for metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance compared with players at other positions, according to new research from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). High levels of physical activity—shown to help prevent obesity, diabetes and other chronic [...]
Over the last few years, high profile brands such as EAS, OneSource, Gatorade, and Cytosport, have come out with recovery and regeneration products to assist athletes refuel and rebuild after high intensity training. It has become obvious, that the limiting factor in high level training programs, is proper recovery techniques that allow athletes the [...]
Digesting food and drink is calorie-burning work; it’s called the “thermic effect.” But sugary soft drinks cause less calorie burn than beverages that contain a blend of nutrients. Researchers at New York City’s St. Luke Hospital gave 20 patients either sugar water or a beverage containing a mixture of protein, fat and carbohydrate, like chocolate [...]
After you workout it is vital that you get food into your system. Now it may surprise you what you could use for that post workout meal. A new study, published in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, reports that athletes who drank chocolate milk after an intense bout of exercise were [...]
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