What should you eat before, during, and after your workout

What should you eat before, during, and after your workout to maximize muscle growth and body composition? This question refers to what's called peri-workout nutrition , which just means the timing of nutrients around a workout. Let me start by saying that, while I will be giving detailed meal examples in this Blog , it's important that we start with what the science actually says about this question in the first place: Why does peri-workout nutrition matter at all? Well, in a now infamous paper titled Nutrient Timing Revisited , Aragon and Schoenfeld challenged the classic view of post-exercise nutritional intake with respect to anabolism. Many science lovers took this single paper to be the nail in the coffin for the bros' now-outdated anabolic window concept. Apparently, nutrient timing didn’t matter after all. Well, it turns out many of the science guys may have jumped to conclusions a little too quickly. Because even in this very paper, the authors suggest that pr...