Find out how to schedule your meals for faster muscle growth

I’m sure you’ve heard that nutrition is responsible for 80% of your results. This is a difficult number to quantify, but it is true that proper nutrition is essential for maximum muscle growth and development in the shortest time possible. For those looking to add the most muscle mass in the shortest amount of time, it is essential that you schedule your nutrient intake.

Trainings destroy, they don’t build

The time you spend in the gym exercising and lifting weights is bad for your body and damages your muscles. When you feel sore after a hard workout, that’s muscle damage. You need nutrients to grow, repair, and build muscle. Just as important as growth is the ability to synchronize nutrients to help you burn unwanted fat.

There are some occasions throughout the day when nutrient intake is essential.

Time to grow

Early in the morning

It is essential that you eat first thing in the morning because you have just been starving for 6 to 8 hours. Your body needs nutrition after repairing muscles and other tissues throughout the night.

It is best to start the day with a protein drink because it will be absorbed faster. Your muscles will need nutrients and you don’t want to slow down your muscle growth for another second. So something easy to digest works great. It’s also a good idea to mix in some complex carbohydrates in there. This is necessary as a source of fuel for your day.

Previous training

Before hitting the gym, be sure to have a pre-workout meal or snack. Remember that exercise and weight training break down muscle tissue and you want to have nutrients immediately available to begin the growth and repair process. Carbohydrates will provide you with energy for your workout. Amino acid or protein supplements help your muscles in the growth process.

Post Training

This may be the most critical diet of all. A hard workout will deplete your muscles of their glycogen stores and your muscles will be ready to absorb nutrients at this point. Taking advantage of this period is one of the main keys to obtaining quick muscle gains.

Within 15 minutes of your workout, be sure to have a high-glycemic, protein drink. Make sure to consume 75 to 200 g of sugars along with 25 to 35 g of protein and a serving of monounsaturated fats. Then, within three hours, make sure you have a well-balanced and healthy meal.

Before going to bed

Before you retire for the night and go into another fasting period, make sure you get some nutrition in your body. This is important because your body grows and repairs itself while you sleep and depletes nutrients while you sleep.

When you sleep, your metabolism slows down, so it’s important to closely watch what you eat before bed. A slow-digesting protein like casein along with some complex carbohydrates is the ideal bedtime snack.

Be sure to follow these nutrition guidelines because, coupled with well-timed strength training, you can quickly gain strength for rapid muscle growth without stomach fat.