Heading To The Gym?

Now let's talk quickly about nutrition for your workouts.

Okay, it's very important that you always come to the gym with some food in your stomach. What would be really great is to make sure that if you could have some sugar in your system about 1/2 an hour before you even step inside the gym.

The reason that we need some sugar is because if you're going to be working out and you'll be strength training, you'll be using those sugars to perform each movement.

Another thing that you will be using in every muscle contraction is water. So make sure you get plenty of water throughout the day. We like to get 8 to 10 cups of water every day and if you can't do that at least let's try to make sure that you're getting 2 cups of water an hour before you come into the gym to help you out.

Then after you're done, what we'd like to say is you have a window of opportunity to get some really good food into your body so that you can get antioxidants and vitamins into your system to replenish all the energy that you expended during your workout and also protein to help build up your muscles.

So when you finish your workout try to go find something to eat and I would recommend having a balanced meal. A balanced meal with protein, carbohydrates, and good poly-saturated or mono saturated fats as well. Then once you take care of all that you'll be good to go for your next workout.

So go for it!