Favorite post-workout meal?

[Brendan]

What is everyone's favorite post workout meal? By post workout meal i mean 30 minutes-1 hour 15 minutes after the workout, not the whey and dextrose that most have after workouts.

I think my favorite is steak and baked potato, with some green veggies. I also like grilled burgers and fries, and anything with pasta and meat.

[Brian Brouwer]

A pound of hamburger, mixed with an onion and green pepper, just so they are warmed up but still crunchy. Put this over a healthy dose of whole wheat spegetti, and some good pasta sause on the hamburger. A big meal for sure, and I eat this sometimes a couple of hours before an intense workout as well as after sometimes. Works good anytime!

[Ryan Rhodes]

Angel hair pasta with lots of ground beef and sauce. Wrap it in a hot tortilla for on the go. 3 to 1 carb/protein ratio too!

[Jacob Sauter]

Post workout is raw oats, and whey.. 3 hours later its 2C broccoli/5oz chicken/8oz sweet potato/1tbsp drews dressing.

[Chris Lee]

those all sound pretty good! i myself usually down a quick shake (milk, protein, creatine, olive oil) then eat a 1 lb double cheeseburger (2 .5 lbs patties) with about a third of a gallon of milk.

[Jesse Marunde]

nice avatar Chris. all that milk and hard work is really starting to show.

My favorite post workout meal is 1.5 pounds of GRASSLAND BEEF top sirloin and a quart of milk. I usually eat one pound of GRASSLAND ground beef, but the sirloin is my favorite.

Jesse

[Ryan Phillips]

if jesse could marry grassland beef i swear he would. its all i ever hear from him. haha, but its all good :D

[Jesse Marunde]

I would but I'm already committed... ;)

Jesse

[Brendan]

I would but I'm already committed... ;)

Jesse


I hope to god you didn't eat the same amount of beef before you went to grassland. I mean you'd have cow hormones up the wazoo, not to mention other chemicals...

[patrick w.]

raw oats and whey protein for me.

[Brendan]

raw oats and whey protein for me.

Do you mean the meal you have about an hour after lifting, or immediately post-workout? I thought high GI carbs ere better immediately pwo, but I've heard others who have good results from oats.

[patrick w.]

Do you mean the meal you have about an hour after lifting, or immediately post-workout? I thought high GI carbs ere better immediately pwo, but I've heard others who have good results from oats.

this is the shake I have imediatly post workout. The practice of using high GI carbs are better has been disputed over the past year or so. The reasoning behind it is that the Hi glycemic carbs will spike your insulin leves , blunting coritsol and shuteling amino acids to the cells to begin muscle building as well as increasing glycogen uptake after it has been deplted during a strenuous workout. The reason that I don't do it is because (a) a spike in insulin levels will halt fat loss for anywhere from up to 4-6hrs as your body can't utalize free fatt acids for fuel in the precense of an insulin spike (as FFAs need oxygen to be burnged) and (b) the rate of muscular contraction during an anerobic wokrout is so hard that the GLUT4 transporter (one of the main transproters of nutrients within the cell) is already translocated across the membrane beacuse of it so there is really no need to spike insulin levels to activate it. Teh lower glycemic carb and the whey will rise insulin levels in a slightly slower fashion (pretty much anythign you eat will have some small effect on insulin, even if it is just protein and fat. there is still a little increase). After this shake I wait to eat again about 1-1.5hrs.

[Yan]

this is the shake I have imediatly post workout. The practice of using high GI carbs are better has been disputed over the past year or so. The reasoning behind it is that the Hi glycemic carbs will spike your insulin leves , blunting coritsol and shuteling amino acids to the cells to begin muscle building as well as increasing glycogen uptake after it has been deplted during a strenuous workout. The reason that I don't do it is because (a) a spike in insulin levels will halt fat loss for anywhere from up to 4-6hrs as your body can't utalize free fatt acids for fuel in the precense of an insulin spike (as FFAs need oxygen to be burnged) and (b) the rate of muscular contraction during an anerobic wokrout is so hard that the GLUT4 transporter (one of the main transproters of nutrients within the cell) is already translocated across the membrane beacuse of it so there is really no need to spike insulin levels to activate it. Teh lower glycemic carb and the whey will rise insulin levels in a slightly slower fashion (pretty much anythign you eat will have some small effect on insulin, even if it is just protein and fat. there is still a little increase). After this shake I wait to eat again about 1-1.5hrs.

hey thats a nice post...must not be as stupid as you look :p

i remember those debates where they were talking about glycogen synthesis post w/o and said that its really independant of insulin because the GLUT4's translocate etc. the only problem i have with that logic is that the raw oats/whey combo will take longer to go through the GI tract and might possibly get to the bloodstream after the 30min 'window of opportunity.' of course cal in vs. cal out always wins the battle, we can still tweak our diets to change the fat:muscle gain/loss ratio in our favor, atleast a little bit.

[John Hughes]

I like my normal PWO shake and for actual food after, anything I can get my hands on. Be it sushi, fish, beef or chicken. I love eating period.

[patrick w.]

hey thats a nice post...must not be as stupid as you look :p

i remember those debates where they were talking about glycogen synthesis post w/o and said that its really independant of insulin because the GLUT4's translocate etc. the only problem i have with that logic is that the raw oats/whey combo will take longer to go through the GI tract and might possibly get to the bloodstream after the 30min 'window of opportunity.' of course cal in vs. cal out always wins the battle, we can still tweak our diets to change the fat:muscle gain/loss ratio in our favor, atleast a little bit.


No yan, that is the thing the studies are now looking at. What I am saying is the oat/whey are perfect BECAUSE they take longer for the reason that the "30min window of oppurtunity" is found to be non-islulin dependant because of the glut-4 traslocation. It is after this 30-45min window that uptake then becomes insulin dependant and the oats will provide a steady stream of insulin to allow for that uptake to occur.

[Dan Harrison]

Who the hell eats RAW OATS?? BARF!

Post workout: Huge protein shake with milk and then an hour or two later: Lots of meat/potatoes or a massive carne asada burrito. LOTS of milk.

A post workout orgy helps too. (I wish....)

[patrick w.]

raw oats taste awesome if they are blended into the shake. Unfortunaly i don't have a blender at the gym and I have to suck it down raw. It isn't terrible but it isn't great. It gets me what I need though.

[Patrick McGuffin]

i usually have a nice cooked bowl of oatmeal with some protien powder mixed in or a chicken sandwitch om wheat and every now and then a bannana with it, im suprised no one else has said they do , any reason??? last time i checked they were good for pwo

[patrick w.]

I don't eat banana's post workout (or any fruit post workout) because of the fructose which uses a non-insulin pathway for digestion and preferentially repletes liver glycogen. Post workout I want to replete muscle gylcogen as much as possible.

[JEFF VANCO]

2 - 6oz grass fed beef patties (bbq'd) and pasta with homemade tomato sauce.

MMMMMMMMMMMMM, I have to go eat now.



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[Jacob Sauter]

Who the hell eats RAW OATS?? BARF!

Post workout: Huge protein shake with milk and then an hour or two later: Lots of meat/potatoes or a massive carne asada burrito. LOTS of milk.

A post workout orgy helps too. (I wish....)

I actually like oats raw(atleast in protein). They are pretty good, then again pig brains arent bad either lol :cool:

[Cory Strack]

a cup of hot oatmeal, a cup of ice cream and a protein shake

[Rafael D.]

is rice (light teriyaki sauce on top), Turkey Polska Kielbasa (sliced and grilled on GF) doused with Dinosaur BBQ sauce, mixed vegetables (cooked), half a cup of peanuts. :p

[Morgan Guthner]

1lb 7% hamburger, green beans, medium red potato and a large glass of skim milk.

[ScottDowney]

Haha

When I used to train in this neck of the woods, I always used to get off the bus near Kentucky Fried Chicken and buy myself a 8 piece bucket :KD: