Afters professional/elite runners finish a workout what sback do they eat? Like peanut butter toast, whey protein, banana, meat, protein bar, etc. I have been making a whey protein and banana shake after my runs, but I feel like I don't actually need 30 grams of protein. Do you guys have any insight of what professional/elite runners eat? Thank you.
In my experience, professional runners have the worst diets possible. Look at Chris Derrick and others.....Chipotle burritos, tons of meat, etc. Others drink way too much beer.Read a bit more about the body and how it works. "Recovery" snacks are a myth. After your two hour long run your body is still digesting the food you ate 6-8 hours ago or longer. Eat when you're hungry. Not too much meat, a lot of fruit and vegetables. Make sure you get enough carbs in the form of rice and pasta, etc.
Alex Paul wrote:
Afters professional/elite runners finish a workout what sback do they eat? Like peanut butter toast, whey protein, banana, meat, protein bar, etc. I have been making a whey protein and banana shake after my runs, but I feel like I don't actually need 30 grams of protein. Do you guys have any insight of what professional/elite runners eat? Thank you.
Wrong tree wrote:
In my experience, professional runners have the worst diets possible. Look at Chris Derrick and others.....Chipotle burritos, tons of meat, etc. Others drink way too much beer.
Read a bit more about the body and how it works. "Recovery" snacks are a myth. After your two hour long run your body is still digesting the food you ate 6-8 hours ago or longer. Eat when you're hungry. Not too much meat, a lot of fruit and vegetables. Make sure you get enough carbs in the form of rice and pasta, etc.
All of that is significantly incorrect
Well right now I'm in the middle of swim season (I was forced to). I swim like 5 miles in the afternoon, and only run like 4-5 in the morning at like 5 am. So I don't need to big of a meal, or I can't go out to eat. I usually just have a bowl of cereal and coffee before my runs.
Natural foods that are close to their original version without much processing.
Do you guys have any specific ideas on what to eat?
General post-workout principle:
High sugar (induce insulin response --> replenish muscle glycogen and shuttle amino acids intramuscularly for structural repairs) and high protein (muscle repair).
Thank you for all the rules and principles, but do you guys have any specific ideas of what I should eat? I have no idea.
Alex Paul wrote:
Thank you for all the rules and principles, but do you guys have any specific ideas of what I should eat? I have no idea.
No. You do have an idea because you have basic principles to start with. There is no one right answer and no magic food that's going to make you faster.
But there are magic foods that help you more than others.
Alex Paul wrote:
But there are magic foods that help you more than others.
Are you looking for food recipes? Wrong site, kid.
Galen Rupp eats Swedish fish candy after workouts. Do you need to know which brand or flavor of Swedish fish, too? Any answer you get to this question is basically random. There is no one answer.
If only there were some sort of way to SEARCH for questions like this over a network of computers connected to one another...
https://runnersconnect.net/running-nutrition-articles/detailed-look-diet-elite-marathoner/
One example. You can probably find more
Speaker of hard truths wrote:
Galen Rupp eats Swedish fish candy after workouts. Do you need to know which brand or flavor of Swedish fish, too? Any answer you get to this question is basically random. There is no one answer.
This.
Alex Paul wrote:
Well right now I'm in the middle of swim season (I was forced to). I swim like 5 miles in the afternoon, and only run like 4-5 in the morning at like 5 am. So I don't need to big of a meal, or I can't go out to eat. I usually just have a bowl of cereal and coffee before my runs.
You swim 5 miles a day? That's like a 2-3 hour continuous swim.
I'd say you are a swimmer, not a runner.
Eat a LARGE VARIETY of foods (don't exclude any food groups) and make sure you eat enough calories to offset your caloric expenditure.
Done.
luv2run wrote:
If only there were some sort of way to SEARCH for questions like this over a network of computers connected to one another...
https://runnersconnect.net/running-nutrition-articles/detailed-look-diet-elite-marathoner/One example. You can probably find more
I call bullshit on that. Or at least on the quantities / calorie count.
I think of myself as a runner not a swimmer. I did swimming year around as a little kid in elementary school, so that kept in really good shape. My family moved states in 6th grade, I then quit swimming completely because I hated it. I decided to take up running because I knew I was pretty good from my mile time trials we did in PE class (my time was like a 6:02 as a 5th grader). I really grew a love for running, so I have done since then, come high school though my parents said I had to do a winter sport and I could not just run. So I decided to join swim team because that will help me with running more than basketball or ski team (plus I had a background of swimming in the past). Also besides when swim season is going on I don't swim at all I only run. I have plans on running in college.
I only eat a banana before any workout, then after I have a full breakfast of sausage, eggs, and toast with nut butter.
drunk runner. wrote:
Eat a LARGE VARIETY of foods (don't exclude any food groups) and make sure you eat enough calories to offset your caloric expenditure.
Done.
Wrong wrong. Exclude animal products. Eggs can be an exception imo but def not flesh and dairy. Especially dairy it's poison.
And you don't need 30g protein after a workout. I mean u are fine if u eat 50g a day