Universal Nutrition For Exercising - 5 Tips To Help

By Datu Ken J.

Proper juicing and eating will provide the universal nutrition necessary for your exercise workouts.

To ensure that your body is working efficiently while working out, you must drink and eat the right foods at the right time. This is the path to burning calories and building muscles. Your body will work efficiently if you stick to the following juicing and eating tips for your pre and post-workouts.

1. How long should you wait to workout after you eat?

If you do your exercises in the morning, have a good breakfast. The size of the breakfast will determine how soon you should start your exercise program. A big breakfast usually means an interval of two hours after eating. If you have a light breakfast an hour or less is a good interval. Be mindful that most of the energy you got from your dinner last night has now been used up. If you start your exercise without replenishing that energy you may feel sluggish or even light-headed.

For the light breakfast, here are some options to include:

� Whole-grain cereals or bread

� Low-fat milk

� Bananas

To reduce any hunger pangs that may develop use the following juice recipe:

1 orange, cut in wedges

3 carrots, peeled

Place both ingredients in your juicer. Juice, stir and enjoy.

2. For pre-workouts, without breakfast, what foods are good to eat?

If you're not having breakfast, use quality snack-foods to eat. Many people can eat snacks before and during exercising. What's important is how you feel. Experiment and find out what is best for you. Start with small snacks and gradually increase the size and numbers of snacks, and see how that fits your program.

Good snack options include:

� Energy bars or drinks

� Bananas or other fresh fruit

� Yogurt

� Fruit smoothies

� Whole-grain bagel or crackers with peanut butter

� Granola bars

Plus the ever helpful juice recipe to top the list:

A huge quantity of B family vitamins to send energy coursing through your veins!

2 beet greens

4 broccoli spears

1 cup cauliflower

Juice each ingredient separately, and then pour them together.

Stir. Get revitalized! Enjoy.

3. What's good to eat after you exercise?

You want to help your muscles recover and to add to their glycogen stores, so eat a meal that has both protein and carbohydrates about two hours after you finished your exercise program. If you're not hungry after your workout, drink juice or a sport drink to provide replenishing carbohydrates.

Good post-workout food choices include:

� Yogurt and fruit

� Peanut butter or meat sandwich

� String cheese and crackers

� Nuts and dried fruit

� A regular meal with meat, starch, and cooked vegetable or salad

And use this energizing power juice recipe:

2 apples, peeled, cored

1 stalk of celery

1 handful parsley

2 handfuls spinach

5 leaves of green leaf lettuce

Process all the ingredients in your juicer. Stir. Enjoy.

4. How often should you eat while you're working out?

This is an individual call and has no set rules or universal nutrition guide lines. Everything depends on how you feel. Obviously larger bodies are going to need more nutrition than smaller bodies, before, during and after exercise. In this matter you have to let your personal experience be your guide. If you eat too much while exercising this can leave you feeling sluggish, or even worse, with a case of diarrhea or stomach cramps. Eating too little may not give you the energy to keep you feeling strong throughout your workout. Call this shot as you see fit (no pun intended).

5. How much water should you drink before, during and after exercise?

The universal nutrition guide suggests the following to keep you well hydrated for exercise.

� Drink roughly 2 to 3 cups of water during the two to three hours before your workout.

� Drink about 1/2 to 1 cup of water every 15 to 20 minutes during your workout. You may need more, the larger your body is, or the warmer the weather is.

� Drink roughly 2,to 3 cups of water after your workout for every pound of weight you lose during the workout.

Water is the best way to replace lost fluids. But if you're exercising for more than 60 minutes, use a sport drink. Sport drinks usually contain carbohydrates and can support your electrolyte balance which gives you a bit more energy.

Good luck with universal nutrition for exercising. Keep juicing.

Datu Ken is a Mixologist dedicated to juicing for health. To read more articles on the proper way to juice please visit http://www.vegetablesjuicerecipes.com. A free mini-course on how to juice is available.

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