What is a men's fitness diet?

Dieting is not a shortcut to losing fat. People who know about fitness know that they need to eat scientifically. If you want to stay fit, it’s not enough to just exercise, you also need to pay more attention to your diet. So how should men's fitness diet be arranged? Knowing how to eat for fitness will help you get twice the result with half the effort. The diet before and after exercise is different. The editor will introduce these two aspects to you below.

Eating before exercise

Eat some high-fiber cookies, yogurt, raisins, or fresh fruit 1 to 2 hours before exercise. This will make you more energetic when exercising. If you are about to participate in a running race or other competition, you should have a low-fat, high-carbohydrate meal two to three hours before the race. Eat foods that are familiar to you and easy to digest. Fruit, yogurt, a bagel, or a bowl of cereal are all good choices. If there is food in the stomach during exercise, blood flow is redirected from the digestive tract to the exercising muscles, causing stomach cramps and a bloated feeling.

Post-exercise diet

Many people think that they have consumed too much physical energy after exercise, so they often like to choose a big meal of chicken, duck, fish or meat to replenish their energy and restore their physical strength. However, on the contrary, some people not only fail to eliminate fatigue, but instead feel muscle swelling, joint pain, and increased mental fatigue.

After physical labor or strenuous exercise, the body will feel very tired and sore. This is because the body produces a large amount of lactic acid. In the case of muscle soreness, if you continue to eat acidic foods, such as protein-rich foods, it will increase blood acidification and slow down the decomposition of acidic metabolites, thereby aggravating the degree of fatigue. At this time, you should eat alkaline foods, such as beans and bean products; spinach, lettuce, radish, potato, lotus root, onion, kelp, apple and other fruits, vegetables and sea vegetables; milk and dairy products, etc.

The above is an introduction to fitness diet arrangements. As the saying goes, three parts training and seven parts diet. To maintain a healthy body, exercise alone is not enough. Diet is the single most important factor in maintaining health. Everyone's diet choices for fitness may be different, mainly depending on the time you exercise, the exercise you do, and its intensity. Finding the one that suits you is the best.