SCI-MX HARDCORE EDITION MAGBOOK May 2014 | Page 14

HARDCORE MUSCLE MASS

night time nutrition.
Keep it up all night!
How to keep your muscles growing all night long.

Most guys like to think their night
time prowess is in alpha-male
territory. But if you want to fuel
more than all-night passion and
support optimal muscle building
hormone levels and growth – then
you can’t fake it!

Night time nosh
According to professional fitness model - Gatt, if
you’re serious about building maximum muscle
mass – then you need to be thinking about the
food you put into your body before you sleep.

Sleep is the key
period when your
body pumps-out
anabolic hormones
like testosterone and
growth hormone and
stimulates muscle
repair and growth.
Gatt says “If I fail to eat the right foods before
bed, I simply don’t recover as rapidly or grow as
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quickly”. Gatt is a great fan of using a Nutribullet
to blend-up muscle food smoothies – combining
sports nutrition with whole foods to create foods
with nutraceutical benefits for athletes. According
to Gatt, “both whole foods and supplements
have unique benefits which you can capture by
blending them together”. At night, Gatt fuels
growth by creating a meal that has three specific
characteristics:
1. Broad-spectrum protein that digests quickly
to increase protein synthesis, but also offers
sustained amino acids release for 8-9 hours to
combat muscle catabolism.
2. Quality fats to support hormone production.
3. Rich levels of zinc and Vitamin B6 for
testosterone and hormone regulation.

Catch some Zzzzzzzzzz
Anyone training with hardcore intensity requires a
minimum of 7-8 hours of relaxed sleep per night.
Making a real effort to hit the sack an hour earlier
will reward you with enhanced focus, training
energy, recovery speed and growth.