Understanding Super-Compensation
Post-workout super-compensation causes muscles to grow at an accelerated rate. Super-C occurs when
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intense training is followed by the timely ingestion of quality calories. Super-C happens only if the training is intense, i.e., hard enough to trigger hypertrophy. If the training achieves critical mass, the adaptive response (muscle growth) occurs and if starved, intensely worked, depleted muscles targeted in the workout are fed immediately afterwards, over-compensation occurs. The body super-compensates and nutrients are ingested at three times the normal rate of absorption. Are you a super hard trainer? Do you blast away in the weight room, continually seeking to lift more poundage or lift the same poundage for more reps? When you perform cardio do you sweat buckets?
If you train like this then you’re a Parrillo-style trainer whether you know it or not. For you, the super hard trainer, super-compensation really matters. For those who pump and slam iron for hours at a time in four, five or six lifting sessions per week, for those who perform killer cardio a half-dozen times weekly, those individuals need to make sure that as soon as the workout is over they consume a post-workout smart-bomb. A smart-bomb is a liquefied shake jam-packed with ‘clean’ calories and gobs of beneficial nutrients. Liquefied is the way to go. A predigested shake allows regenerating nutrients to be utilized immediately. With all this upside, why would any intelligent weight trainer not consume a post-workout smart-bomb liquefied shake?
Super-compression describes the physiological phenomenon that occurs when a workout-battered body is fed immediately after the workout. By drinking the right thing in the right amount right after an intense workout, results are dramatically amplified. John Parrillo was (per usual) on the forward cutting-edge of the super-compensation bandwagon when it first got rolling in elite bodybuilding circles back in the early 1990’s. Truth be known, John helped build the super-compensationbandwagon. John was one of the first to pose the rhetorical question: what is the smartest thing a bodybuilder can do after a tough workout? Re-supply muscles with glycogen-restoring slow-release carbohydrate and quick-release whey protein that regenerates depleted amino acids.
After a workout the metabolism is dramatically elevated and a liquid meal is quickly and easily digested and distributed. You could eat a Parrillo-style “real food” bodybuilder meal after a workout, one that included a portion of protein, starch and fiber – but the “window of opportunity” open during the workout closes 45-60 minutes after the cessation of the session. While the window of opportunity is open, the metabolism is revved-up and nutrients are absorbed at an accelerated rate. Food takes time to digest. Eating a meal and having it sit in your stomach as the window snaps shut is the bobby prize. If you eat a regular food meal, start eating right after the session so foods will be digested and distributed while the window is open. 99% of elite Parrillo-style iron pumpers who are aware and take advantage of the window prefer a liquid smart-bomb for ease and for rapid assimilation. 50/50 Plus™ is the Parrillo post-workout smart-bomb prescription: What would constitute the ideal post-workout super-compensation smart-bomb? John Parrillo felt that the ideal smart-bomb should be in liquid form for fast assimilation.
John buried himself in hands-on research and came to the conclusion that the perfect post-workout concoction should be a 50-50 nutrient split: 50% of smart-bomb calories allotted to fast acting, potent whey protein. Protein provides muscles the amino acids needed to begin cellular repair. The other 50% of smart-bomb calories should be allotted to carbohydrate – but not just any carbohydrate – Parrillo sought a carb source that would release into the bloodstream slowly, evenly, completely and consistently. John scoured available carb sources and eventually decided on low DE maltodextrin. His solution was to mix half whey protein with half maltodextrin carbohydrate powder. 50/50 Plus™ was born and was the very first supplement designed specifically to take advantage of the post-workout super-compression phenomenon. The nutrients need to arrive at the muscles on time: liquefied was the way to go. Once the 45-60 minute post-workout window of opportunity snaps shut, the speed at which nutrients are absorbed and assimilated reverts to normal. John felt that 50/50 Plus™ was the perfect formulation. “I base my approach on gluconeogenesis – the synthesis of glucose from non-carbohydrate sources such as protein or fat. This process occurs in the liver, the other primary glycogen storage site, besides the muscles. If you pick the wrong carbohydrate to refuel post-workout, insulin secretions can cause havoc. My solution is to refuel using a slow-release carbohydrate source: maltodextrin.
This is a ‘complete” carb derived from starch and its unique molecular structure causes it to release slowly into the bloodstream. This is ideal for establishing, accelerating and maintaining super-compensation – particularly when maltodextrin is paired with potent, fast acting whey protein powder. The replenishment is near instantaneous. The amount of refuel can be controlled to an exacting degree, tailored to bodyweight.” Real world post-workout smart-bomb replenishment: The procedure for triggering Super-C and taking advantage of the open window of opportunity is quite simple: place a dry serving of 50/50 Plus™ (or two or three servings if you weigh over 200-pounds) in a tightly sealed Tupperware bottle with a screw top. Throw the bottle with the powder into your gym bag. As your workout is winding down, head to the gym water fountain and fill the shaker with 8 ounces of cold water. Replace the top and shake the mixture hard. Drink the 50/50 Plus™ down in sips. Many Parrillo trainees will start sipping the 50/50 Plus™ shake 2/3rd’s of the way through the session. This helps prevent energy nosedives that often happen at the end of a brutal workout. Liquefied nutrients consumed after a hard training session are assimilated 300% faster than normal. When this happens results are geometrically increased.
The muscle growth occurs after the training session is over and all these great results are acquired by drinking the right combination of calories and nutrients. 50/50 Plus™ mixes easily, comes in vanilla, chocolate, milk and orange cream flavors and a single serving provides 150 calories, 0 grams of fat, 22 grams of protein, 18 grams of carbs and no sugar. The taste is splendid and the combination of potency and ease of use has made this product a solid seller since the day it was introduced to the public a decade ago. Cold water activates the 50/50 Plus™ smart-bomb. Don’t be stupid, be smart: no self-respecting bodybuilder would be without a post-workout super-C smart-bomb. They call it a smart bomb because it’s smart to consume one – so don’t be dumb! Pick up the phone right now. Dial our toll-free order line and talk to one of our expert staff. Place an order for 50/50 Plus™ and get on the Super-C bandwagon, the same bandwagon Parrillo built way back when. To order 50/50 Plus™ dial 1-800-344-3404…$32.00 per canister.
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