Quote (Sunline @ Nov 28 2013 07:42am)
Interesting. I can't really argue one way or another as I have not sat in a lab with subjects.
At the time, as an athlete, I had no issue with consuming a shake after finishing a workout as I usually had more than one training session a day. So if it may be important, then great, but if it isn't, I'm sure I wasn'thurting myself either haha. I liked the book at the time as I was never really introduced to the ideas of pre-workout nutrition, intra-workout nutrition, and combining carbohydrates with protein before that point - I honestly think it it was a big part in achieving a lot of my strength PRs, but I also can't completely verify that because it wasn't a scientific setting (I had a large caloric surplus and hard/smart training in addition to supplementing differently).
On the other hand, for the paper I wrote using a number of those studies, the premise was on the effect of consuming protein, carbs, creatine, and the various combinations of those supplements (for example, carbs alone, protein alone, carbs + protein, carbs + protein + creatine, carbs + creatine, etc), not on the specific nutrient timing/post-workout 'anabolic window'.
This post was edited by bnrhodes2 on Nov 28 2013 10:17am