Five Tips For Training Your Tummy
- By Nutrition
- Published Aug. 3, 2012
1. Warm Up Your Gut
Warming up the gut means identifying the food and drink that sit best in the digestive tract before training. As training intensity increases, blood flow to the digestive tract is minimized as it’s shifted to the working muscles, leading to less efficient digestion. The food that you ate before your training sessions in the previous cycle may not work the same now that you are training more intensely.
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