Read Better Than Steroids here.
In his book Better Than Steroids, Dr. Warren Willey explains why the post workout meal is the most important meal of the day. The following excerpt alone was enough to compel me to read and apply the information contained within the pages of Better Than Steroids:
Dr. Willey notes that the ideal post workout meal should include fast-acting high-grade whey protein and high glycemic carbohydrates. The high glycemic carbohydrates act to stimulate an insulin response while the fast-acting whey protein is shuttled into the system to promote a powerful anabolic environment – Better Than Steroids!The post workout meal also replenishes glycogen stores in the muscle. This is done via the act of putting substrates near the muscle with proper food and supplementation, as well as spiking insulin to drive those nutrients into the muscle and glycogen stores. Rapidly re-filling glycogen stores in and of itself is considered by some to be an anabolic process. Muscle growth and repair are enhanced with the post workout meal… There is nothing I can recommend more for optimal lean mass gain than the post workout meal.
Better Than Steroids also includes meal plans that take
advantage of the body’s anabolic process and encourages the reader to embrace
the concept of looking at food as a drug as it possesses many of the
characteristics that drugs such as anabolic steroids. The key, however, is timing along with food
and supplement choices.
Dr. Willey provides several accounts of athletes who have
implemented his post workout strategy and their results. By simply adding a post workout meal as
described in Better Than Steroids, these athletes experienced measurable decreases in body
fat levels and staggering increases in lean muscle tissue in just a few months’
time.
Also Read:
Super Squats: How to Gain 30 Lbs. of Muscle in 6 Weeks by Randall J. Strossen
Hardcore Bodybuilding: A Scientific Approach by Dr. Fred Hatfield
