When you eat food, you take food energy into your body. All of these food calories- whether from proteins, carbohydrates or fats will make you fat -if your body does not use that energy for a specific purpose it is meant to.
What your body does with the food you eat depends a lot on what kind of demand you create by the amount and type of activity/ training you do. Aerobic training tends to burn a lot of calories, and therefore depletes your body of glycogen- which is the primary source of energy for physical activity. As a consequence, when you eat carbohydrates after an endurance training session, the body turns that carbohydrate into replacement glycogen as quickly as it can, and little of that carbohydrates is likely to be diverted to become stored body fat.
On the other hand, intense weight training- working your muscles against heavy resistance- creates a major demand for replacement protein. Protein eaten soon after a workout, or on the same day as an intense gym workout, will be used by the body to rebuild muscle tissue at a much higher rate than on days when you are not doing that kind of training. Again, when the body is in the high state of demand, it is unlikely that non-excessive amounts of ingested protein will be stored as body fat to any great degree.
So, in general, when your goal is to direct protein into your muscles, you need to train with weights. When your goal is to burn off excess energy, you need to do increased amounts of aerobic training.
Also, when a right kind of demand is created the utilization and assimilation of nutrients is balanced and there is very less chance of deposition of unwanted body fats. Eating at the right time and in the right amounts and when the body needs it is the best way to stay lean and toned.
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