Thanks, I appreciate that!
I know this question wasn???t directed at me but I would like to take the opportunity to respond by giving my account of how I arrived at my current method of pwo nutrition.
Trough trial and error, I have found that a pwo meal is better for me in terms of recovery and I think that???s a very important variable in my bodybuilding program. Recuperation, IMHO, is just as important as training and nutrition.
Early on, I used to use tuna, brown rice, and broccoli for my pwo meal. Little did I know about pwo nutrition at the time, but I did get very good results from this practice.
Well, I changed up on what I was doing because I heard about what everyone else was doing and my understanding of pwo nutrition was evolving - I wanted to try something new. I started using maltodextrin/dextrose and a casein based protein powder pwo; this too, yielded good results. Further along in my nutritional ???understanding??? I switched to whey protein powder and maltodextrin/dextrose and found that I received similar results. The only problem with this approach was that I felt bloated and mild stomach discomfort for an hour or so after I consumed my pwo shake. This problem was actually two-fold: First, the bloat killed my appetite and the ability to eat another meal within an hour or two after working out; Second (which was the turning point), I still felt drained from training after consuming the pwo shake; it did nothing for my ability to recuperate after working out.
Even though this method wasn't optimal, I followed this type of pwo nutrition for a long time because it was supposed to yield the ???best results.??? Things changed after I read an article by Chris Aceto. A few months ago in Muscle and Fitness, he had written an article about ???Muscle Meals.??? One of the meals was for pwo and it included white rice and whey. I decided to go back to what I was doing before the shakes and tried real food again. I noticed (almost immediately) a difference in my ability to recover pwo; within an hour of training, I felt re-energized and my body returned to a ???normal??? state, as if I just didn???t do something as physically demanding as intense weight training. I was also hungry and able to eat an hour or so after that pwo meal.
Every-body responds differently so it???s always a good idea to experiment.