carb snacks

Nice list of Protiens

Maybe we should have a what is a Carb, what is a protien, what does each do thread?

For Carb snacks look to the best sports at manging these.
Thats Cycling & Triathlete's.
Those athletes eat as they compete - neat trick

For those competing at 3 games per day in Durban,
you'd better get an food mangement plan properly thought out in advance.

How else will you get through the workload, recover & compete to your best.

For the record,
Carbs = energy source (fast, medium or slow)

too many Carbs = fat, too little = no energy

fast = sweets, softdrinks, sugar based products
medium = breads, baked goods, white rice, white pasta
slow = brown rice, potatoes, corn etc


Protiens = tissue maintanence, building & repair. (can convert to energy, but thats a bad thing)
eg: meats, poultry, eggs, whey protien, milk products

You need the right balance of Carbs, Protiens & fats to be healthy

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...for some of us, there is no such thing as too much carbs, unfortunately

Yeah...

how unfortunate...

you poor bastard...

:cry:

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Unfortunatley for most of the girls, to much bad carbs = Fat, bloating and no energy.
Lucky for you liam,
Cheers
Belle

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Carl. Do you understand Glycemic Index and how it might relate to sporting performance?

Yup i do

GI is very important in regards to sports performance.

For example i see alot of players gobble up lollies after a game.
This is good as the muscles need to restore the glycogen to their depleted muscles.
This must be done quickly as there's only a small window of time to get the sugars back in there.

Thats about the only time a high GI is going to aid you as there's a payback (sugar low) that follows due to increased Insulin levels.
When that kicks in you'll feel falt. Before that happens you need to eat a balance (protien, carb & good fat) meal. Low GI.
That'll sort you out for 2-3 hours more.
Then another meal. Obviously the whole time drinking fluids (but not sugary fluids)
So by now food recovery is complete.
Back to full force.

I can go into more detail if you like?

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Yes Please, specially being able to eat lollies!
Bring that on, there you go tan, eat em up.
Belle

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Hey Carl
What do you think of this?
http://www.healthbrands.com.au/topic...c.asp?G=muscle
They incorporate this PCF calculator into all of their products. Is this any good?[/url]

This is from that page.

"PCF Advanced
If you would like to personalise your PCF even more, the Advanced option will refine your target further by taking into consideration your Ayurvedic body type. "

Sounds dangerously quacky to me. Sports 'science' websites can be very difficult to interpret because of this mixture of proper tested advice and a bunch of madeup stuff being mixed liberally together.

My opinion is that they are trying to sell nutritional suplements. There is a basis of sound nutrition but really evaluate your need to spend a lot of money on fake food. You can get most all of nutrition from real food. (like Beans and tuna on toast) Vitamins may be a different story. Just like the websites Carl and I posted on the resistance training thread. Filter the good information, just don't believe you can't do it without their help.


brian