Published by Elle Nash on 23 Jun 2009 at 11:09 am
Breakfast: The Most Important Bodybuilding Meal
I’m not really sure what has changed in our culture, but breakfast used to be eaten by people. It seems like most people don’t have the time anymore and skip it. I never really understood how people could skip. I was brought up on breakfast and I just need it. It is the most important bodybuilding meal that you should be eating, so I really feel the need to help persuade you to start eating it.
The first thing you have to recognize is that you have gone a period of over 8 hours without eating when you get up in the morning. As a bodybuilder, you should recognize how important it is to get food in your body ever few hours, so your muscles have nutrients to repair muscle tissue with. After a long night of sleep, your body is just dying for something to come into the body. It is very important to start eating breakfast. This should be reason enough as a bodybuilder.
The other reason is that it helps to jump start your metabolism for the day. Basically your body slows down when you sleep, so essentially you have 8 hours of slow time. You get up and your body remains slow because it doesn’t have any hard digestive work to do. A dead metabolism is just a waste of potential. EAT!!
And breakfast typically allows you to be much more liberal with your food. I typically eat 4 egg white, 1 yolk omlette with cheese, with two pieces of toast with jam on them and a cup of orange juice. It’s a good meal.