Thread: Kong

I only eat bars if I absoulutely can`t get any other kind of food.

You`d be much better off with whey,water,and dextrose post-workout or just plain old chicken and rice.

Most bars,are nothing more than glofrified candy!!

Ive never seen a bar with 25 grams of sugar alcohols haha...I dont know too much about sugar alcohols but I'm guessing thats too much, go for the natural approach and throw out those bars.

Have Whey and Oats

I only use protein bars for times during which a normal meal would be extremely inconvenient. Good ol' whey protein and some carbs will do the trick. I prefer whey and oats, but you may want to look into insulin spiking.

they ARE good, but that's because there's TONS of sugar in it.

Stay as far away from Protien bars of this sort as possible. They are full of sodium trans and bad fats suger (which makes them ultra high in colestrol).They are also overly prossesed(which means any nutrition which would have been in them will be taken out)and way over priced.
You would be best with a whey,water and 50/50 mix of a simple and more complex carb (Dextrose and maltodextrin is most optimal at this time) to replenish blood glycogen glucose and take you out of a catabollic condition. Oats are not the most optimal choice to use in your PWO shake as its a slow burning complex carb and will not repenish blood glygoen and glucose the way dextrose and maltodextrin will.
You also don't want a whole food meal instead of your PWO shake as you need as fast a digestion as possible at this time.A whole food meal (eg chicken and brown rice) will take 2 hours to hit your blood stream leaving you catabollic for longer. Obviously this delay will mean your gains that you would have got from your workout will not be as optimal compared to the results the shake would have given.

I agree about the whole food meal taking longer to be digested and absorbed but I would opt for it over a crappy protein bar any day of the week,but I would recommend whey,dextrose,and water first on my list.

On a sidenote,I have experimented with eating whole foods post-workout for a lengthly period and truly noticed no difference.

Originally Posted by tjwes

I agree about the whole food meal taking longer to be digested and absorbed but I would opt for it over a crappy protein bar any day of the week,but I would recommend whey,dextrose,and water first on my list.

On a sidenote,I have experimented with eating whole foods post-workout for a lengthly period and truly noticed no difference.

Protien Bar would count as a whole food meal (would it not)?
. Thats an intresing conclusion you have came up with during your experiment.I have always thought that due to the dalayed absorbsion rate it would have a definite negative effect on muscle repair and development.

What has dextrose in it? Or should I say, what do you eat PWO?

Yeah but a protein bar to me hardly constitutes nutrition and I wouldn`t consider it a meal,post-workout or otherwise.

I`m just not big on bars.

BigDyl,you can buy pure dextrose at a nutriotion store or have them order it for you,it`s dirt cheap.

No one knew what it was at GNC. And, no, i don't often shop there, i was just curious to see if they had it. The guy was like: "I don't think we carry that, ahem, i mean i know we don't. If you wanna build muscle your really gonna wanna try some Cell Tech creatine.."

LOL ,you`d most likely have to go to more of a health food store,that`s what I did.

Originally Posted by BigDyl

No one knew what it was at GNC. And, no, i don't often shop there, i was just curious to see if they had it. The guy was like: "I don't think we carry that, ahem, i mean i know we don't. If you wanna build muscle your really gonna wanna try some Cell Tech creatine.."

Thats the kind of ***holes that work in GNC.They dont have a clue what they are selling (if they did this guy would know what Dextrose is) and then they try to push ****ing Cell-tech on to you

Originally Posted by tjwes

Yeah but a protein bar to me hardly constitutes nutrition and I wouldn`t consider it a meal,post-workout or otherwise.

I`m just not big on bars.

BigDyl,you can buy pure dextrose at a nutriotion store or have them order it for you,it`s dirt cheap.

Yeah Protien bars are the crapest of the crap no joke
I remember reading a Muscle and fitness mag last year (I think) and they were talking about the Kong bar calling it "Oatmeal On Steriods" LOL

Omg !!!!

Or the Muscletech ad that stated "Pro Lee Preist used there Cell-tech and Nitro-Tech for 6 months"
It gave you a picture of this big fat guy and then under him was Lee Priest just before a comp!!

Originally Posted by IONOR

Stay as far away from Protien bars of this sort as possible. They are full of sodium trans and bad fats suger (which makes them ultra high in colestrol).They are also overly prossesed

Overly proccessed? they contain the same whey protein that you drink in your shake

180mg of Na is HORRIBLE... but I wouldn't want it either

There are 0 transfats.

And cholestrol is the result of animal products; not sugAr.

Originally Posted by Luke9583

Overly proccessed? they contain the same whey protein that you drink in your shake

180mg of Na is HORRIBLE... but I wouldn't want it either

There are 0 transfats.

And cholestrol is the result of animal products; not sugAr.

Yeah but Protien Bars have the hell processed out of them to try and preserve them they usaly pump them full of preservitaves and additives (If you look at the ingrediants on most protien bars Muscletechs esspecially you will see what I mean)
I wasn't talking just about the Kong bar whenI said transfats maybe this bar doesn't carry any most Protien bars do. However the bar is still loaded with suger and other crap bodybuilders should do there best to steer away from.