Excellent Fitness Tips and After - Workout Nutrition by Robert D. Franklin

What do you think you can do to achieve excellent fitness results for overall health and lifestyle?

1. Create a great strength training routine and interval cardio to your workouts. You don't have to do the same thing constantly. Muscle is needed to continue your high metabolism, and you need cardio to carry a strong heart. Therefore, it's beneficial to find a correct balance.

2. Implement whole body movements in your strength training. You definitely want to keep a constant movement going during your whole routine. You could even try raising your arms over your head while squatting and you'd be able to tell how your heart rate increases quickly. Keep your body moving through your entire routine and you'll have sweat build up as much as in a cardio workout.

3. It's beneficial that during the day, you consistently eat. And, it's extremely important to implement natural, health food into those 5 daily meals, including a protein in every dish. You've got to remember to feed your muscles with body-enhancing protein. By doing this, your metabolism keeps working all day by keeping your muscles at a high mass.

As you've probably heard before, your after workout nutrition could be the most important meal of your day.

The reason is that when you're finished with an intense workout, you begin to excessively break down muscle tissue. The primary way to revert this and promote an anabolic state is to drink up a delicious, digestible shake or smoothie immediately after workout. Choose a quick meal with necessary carbohydrates to revitalize your muscle and needed protein to jump start muscle repair.

The post-workout meal should generally contain between 300-500 calories to get the best response. Even though healthy fats would be good to have in the meal, remember to keep the fat content extremely low.

Remember that you're not required to buy expensive supplement shakes for these quick meals. Making at-home, drinkable meals with natural ingredients is all that you absolutely need! You'll feel stronger and better with each workout.