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Eating to beat the Stress of Your Workouts

By: MuscleSports.net

Get rid of the crap foods out of your nutrition and start beating the stresses of life!!!!
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For the bodybuilding athlete, or any athlete having a antistress dietary approach can do wonders for your training and growth. For a sound antistress approach to eating you should try to obtain as much of your daily calories from whole foods. Using a variety of w natural whole grains, fruits, nuts, seeds and berries will provide your body with all the nutrient along with lean protein sources to build quality muscle mass.

The elimination or reduced intake of processed foods and beverages is catamount in this request as those foods cause stress on the body. The elimination of fat, processed foods, salt, and sugar greatly eliminate stress on your body. All these foods cause inflammation in the d body, inflammation is stress. The reduction of stress helps you function at a much higher level of fitness which inturn produces allot more results.

A List of Low Stress Foods:

Vitamin A: liver, carrots, egg yolks, dark green leafy vegetables

B Vitamins: leafy vegetables, whole grain breads & cereals, oatmeal, brown rice, wheat germ, artichokes, asparagus, spinach, broccoli, peas, oranges, cucumbers, beans, lentils, bananas, potatoes, sweet potatoes

Vitamin C: citrus fruits (oranges, grapefruits, lemons, limes, etc…), tomatoes, strawberries, brussels sprouts, raw peppers, potatoes, raw spinach, turnip greens, collard greens, water cress, black currants, papayas

Vitamin E: wheat germ, whole grains (brown rice, whole wheat, oatmeal, cornmeal), asparagus, spinach, sweet potatoes, beet greens, turnip greens, Brussels sprout, broccoli

Lean Meats & Protein: turkey breast, chicken breast, lean beef cuts (sirloin tip, top round, eye of round, bottom, round, top sirloin), grass feed 90/10 lean ground beef, whole eggs, egg whites, fish (Red Snapper, Cod, Whiting, Rainbow Trout)

Other Antistress Tips:

Hydration or staying hydrated is HUGE in making sure your body stay in a destress mode. Allot of people believe just drink 8 cups of water a day is all you have to do to stay hydrated but its a little more complicated than that, we have to get that water into the cells as it carries nutrients with it your cells. Remember that we loose approximately 2.5 liters of water each and everyday just being alive. Think about that as you wonder why the world is full of disease and illness when keeping hydrated can cure over 80% of all these aches and pains. Drink up!

Tip: Add a pinch of Himalayan pink salt under your tongue up on awakening and consume your first 8oz. of water. That pinch of salt along with the added potassium of the nutrient listed above will pump the h2o you drink into each every one of your cells! DL.

Before you run off to the doc to receive the latest meds that only treat the symptoms of stress try getting tot he root of your issue with a plan that cures the whole body. Eating to nourish your body is the key to many health and athletic setbacks if we are only willing to accept the long and permanent road to wellness instead of quick fixes.

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