Because everyone's physique, exercise intensity, living conditions and so on are different, it is impossible to rigidly stipulate how long to eat after exercise. Generally speaking, if you want to lose weight, you'd better eat it after exercise 1~2 hours, while people who want to strengthen their physique can eat it after half an hour.

2. Why don't you eat immediately after exercise?

During exercise, especially those who take part in strenuous exercise, a lot of blood in the body flows to the muscles and respiratory system to meet the needs of exercise. At this time, the blood flow of the digestive system is relatively small, and the digestion and absorption ability of the body is also weak. If you eat immediately after exercise, the blood will not flow back to the digestive system, and the food you eat will not be digested effectively, which will easily cause gastrointestinal burden and affect the body's absorption of nutrients.

3. Precautions before eating after exercise

After the exercise, if you want to eat, you should also pay attention to the following points before eating.

Carry out finishing exercises

It is best to organize exercise after exercise, which can help people recover from economic activities to a relative rest state as soon as possible. Doing exercise also helps to relax tense muscles, relieve post-exercise soreness, and help the central nervous system to shift from active exercise to nutritional activities, which is conducive to the body's absorption and utilization of nutrients after eating.

Clean yourself.

Eating with sweat always affects your appetite. Take a short rest after exercise, take a warm bath after the heartbeat returns to normal, wash off the sweat on your body, and put on clean clothes before eating. Eliminating physical discomfort and delaying eating time appropriately can also promote the change of higher nervous activity content in the body.

Eat as much as you can.

Many people may be determined not to eat after exercise for the purpose of losing weight, so as not to cause exercise failure; Some people may think that exercise consumes too much, so they must eat hard after exercise and eat all the consumed food back. This is all wrong. How much to eat after exercise is best determined by the appetite at that time, because appetite is the most reliable physiological sign of exercise and eating.

Adjust the intensity of exercise

Some people will lose their appetite after exercise, which may be because the intensity or amount of exercise is too large to exceed their own sports ability level. In this case, in addition to postponing eating time or avoiding pre-meal exercise, the most important thing is to adjust the exercise content so that the amount of exercise conforms to your own physique.

4. How to eat correctly after exercise

After strenuous exercise, most people often feel hungry. Many people will eat a big meal in order to eat all the things consumed during exercise and maintain their health. Of course, this is not right. During exercise, the human body mainly consumes minerals, water and fat. Therefore, after exercise, you can supplement water or apple juice, a nutritious liquid food, which can be digested quickly and replenish minerals and water lost by the body. If you are still hungry, you can sit down and eat calmly.