You just completed your hardest training session of the week. You head out of the gym, already drooling over your next meal…which you assume you’ll be having in about three or four hours.

Whether you were training to build muscle, gain mass or lose weight, waiting until your next big meal to eat can completely sabatoge your efforts.

When you train, your muscles are working over-time; you went from sleeping to running, from sitting at a desk all day to pumping iron, from keeping house to jumping around to a cardio video. Your muscles worked hard when you asked them to! They expended more energy than they were prepared for…and you need to reward them. (more…)