Taking your Fitness to the next level means eating for optimal performance, recovery and growth. You will notice a huge difference in your training capabilities and ability to increase strength if you have been eating a good, clean, nutritious diet. After supplying your body with the fuel it needs to run at it’s optimum level you will feel fully charged, focused and bursting with energy to make your workout really count. EAT FOR PERFORMANCE NOT FOR “PLEASURE”

After you have established what your Fitness goals are, whether it be increase muscle size or to lose body fat, it is then important to develop a nutritional plan that is going to make your goals a reality. When you’ve determined your nutritional needs its then important to create an effective eating plan based around your lifestyle and how you intend on fitting your healthy eating around your schedule.

Eat five to six meals a day spaced out at 2-1/2 to 3 hour intervals. Why? Because when you feed your body several times a day, your metabolism increases. Therefore, you burn more fat. Frequent feedings are of particular importance since after three to four hours of no food your body switches to a catabolic state (a state in which you lose muscle and gain fat!). The body believes that it is starving and it starts feeding itself on lean muscle tissue and it prepares to store calories as fat. Not a good thing at all!

This article is courtesy of a group message on FaceBook from BeachBody coach Mike French – Thanks Mike… YOU ROCK!

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