RyanMiller wrote:

start with water, fruits and veggies and build from there. Protein shakes are a good way to recover after a workout although whole foods are usually the best way to go. Make sure you get high quality supplements, there is a lot of usesless crap out there. It's worth the extra money to get high quality stuff that will actually do something for you. I'm not sure that a good diet will make you fit and faster, but it can allow you to feel and look better, as well as recover faster. Be careful about getting diet advice from the running community. Some of the things I see runners eating and drinking after a race indicates that there is a lot of room for improvement in the typical runners diet.

Avoid things such as:
hot dogs
cheeseburgers
beer
soda
anything deep fried

Sure, many runners eat this stuff and run fast, but they are usually the same runners who feel like crap on almost a daily basis.

There is a saying in the running community "if you are training heavy, eat whatever you want, if the engine is hot enough anything will burn"
This is one of the worst pieces of dietary advice ever. You can burn lots of stuff, and lots of stuff creates toxic fumes. Whether you want that residue in your body is up to you.

stopcecil! wrote:

All right! Get ya some protein in there, and I always say the most important thing in your diet should be chocolate milk after the run.

RyanMiller wrote:

start with water, fruits and veggies and build from there. Protein shakes are a good way to recover after a workout although whole foods are usually the best way to go. Make sure you get high quality supplements, there is a lot of usesless crap out there. It's worth the extra money to get high quality stuff that will actually do something for you. I'm not sure that a good diet will make you fit and faster, but it can allow you to feel and look better, as well as recover faster. Be careful about getting diet advice from the running community. Some of the things I see runners eating and drinking after a race indicates that there is a lot of room for improvement in the typical runners diet.

Avoid things such as:
hot dogs
cheeseburgers
beer
soda
anything deep fried

Sure, many runners eat this stuff and run fast, but they are usually the same runners who feel like crap on almost a daily basis.

There is a saying in the running community "if you are training heavy, eat whatever you want, if the engine is hot enough anything will burn"
This is one of the worst pieces of dietary advice ever. You can burn lots of stuff, and lots of stuff creates toxic fumes. Whether you want that residue in your body is up to you.