[quote]TrainForPain wrote:
[quote]c.m.l. wrote:
In my opinion its not the need of fuel that precipitates the use of periworkout nutrition. Rather, it is the oppurtunity to put select substances into the muscle (creatine, aminos, etc) and most importantly the anti-catabolic effects of insulin itself. Just like how foam rolling doesn’t seem too big of a deal until you are at the point to need it, periworkout nutrition may not seem like a big deal until you are scraping for a handful of lbs over a year, and anti-catabolism becomes a big part of holding on to that fraction of a lb each month. [/quote]
I can see this too. So maybe it’s like everything else, and is situation dependent.[/quote]
I completely agree with this! (and c.m.l. above you too, naturally). Alan Aragon and I had this discussion a couple years ago over lunch actually. For the majority of the people that go to the gym and jog for 30 minutes it won’t matter a bit. For those who go in and half ass it, it won’t matter a bit because theyre not training hard. However, for people training multiple times a day, or for elites, or for people needing even a small edge, it 100% matters imo. Alan basically agreed, and we sort of had a moment lol. His target audience is different than my goals, that’s all.for 100% of the clients I have convinced to go on it (including among them 2 mma fighters, one nationally competitive, and one medical doc) it has worked, big time, in terms of recovery boost, soreness, and performance in the workouts. They all notice the differencd if they come in and have forgotten their peri. For myself as well. I notice a gigantic difference in performance levels and subsequent soreness levels.