Nutrient timing

Nutrient timing is a sports dieting concept which suggests that time may be a missing dimension in improved muscular development. This concept represents a change over the previous school of thought that focused on protein loading without emphasizing the synchronicity between eating and exercising.

Proper nutrient timing takes into account two dimensions that directly correlate to performance:

  1. The consumption of the substrates in ideal proportions.
  2. The timing between exogenous fueling and exercise. When the right substrates are present at the ideal times, the result might be improved performance and growth.

Nutrient timing may enhance performance of exercise, competition, and daily life expectations. The amount of each nutrient plays a role in performance and recovery. Recovery is essential to keep going in daily routines, competitions, and fitness in general. Fueling recovery and fitness may be enhanced by using the timing of nutrients around a performance aspect of life. This timing is not essential to good performance, but it is a small detail that may help if one is looking to gain strength.

Further reading
  • Dan Benardot, Advanced Sports Nutrition. Human Kinetics (2011, 2nd ed.) ISBN 1-4504-0161-9
  • John Ivy and Robert Portman, Nutrient Timing: The Future of Sports Nutrition. Basic Health Publications (2004) ISBN 1-59120-141-1
  • Aragon, Alan Albert; Schoenfeld, Brad Jon (29 January 2013). "Nutrient timing revisited: is there a post-exercise anabolic window?". Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition. 10 (1): 5. doi:10.1186/1550-2783-10-5. PMC 3577439. PMID 23360586.


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