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Recovery Foods

Recovery Foods. By: Marc. H, Adam. C and Mack. M. Straight Facts. To properly Work out & gain muscles, you need to ingest correct Recovery foods After an intense workout your body stores glycogen; an after-product of the energy you used during your workout.

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Recovery Foods

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  1. Recovery Foods By: Marc. H, Adam. C and Mack. M

  2. Straight Facts • To properly Work out & gain muscles, you need to ingest correct Recovery foods • After an intense workout your body stores glycogen; an after-product of the energy you used during your workout. • You should ingest around ¾ of carbs per pound of body weight. To be most usefull it has to be consumed in the first 30 minutes of your workout.

  3. What You Lose And Why Lose Some Nutrients During a Workout • After a workout the carbohydrate that is stored in your muscles is used up. • If you don’t replenish those carbs, your body will not recuperate appropriately & you will definitely suffer from it in your next workout. • Those carbs are depleted in your workout because they help you through all of the weight lifting and cardio. • Also a lot of protein in your body is lost during a workout.

  4. Consequences of Not Replenishing Your Lost Nutrients • If you wake up the next morning and your sore everywhere. And you can’t follow your workout schedualbecause your too sore… you doing something wrong. • Your body will be lacking in major nutrients that you have lost in your workout. And won’t be able to function to its peak ability. • If you don’t end up replenishing your proteins from your workout, your body needs protein so it will extract protein from your lean body muscle. • Insufficient protein intake can result in many problems like long recover and poor wound healing

  5. How To Effectively Recover From a Workout: Part 1 • The Trick is the Pre Work out. • To give your body the tools it needs to gain muscle and not crash and burn after. • A very common and effective way to help your body get that extra boost is to consume protein supplements. • Also not to Stress your muscles or pull anything before your workout is essential to having a successful workout.

  6. How To Effectively Recover From a Workout: Part 2 • Right after the workout is the most critical part in a workout • First off, load yourself with Carbohydrates to compensate for the glycogen loss • Also just plain water does its wonders as well. But you should be having that throughout your whole workout. • Also many sports drinks can provide fast electrolyte recovery.

  7. Popular Protein Supplements • There are the Protein Powders like Professional Strength Whey Protein, which comes in a powder and you mix with water or milk and it makes a great protein supplement for pre workout and post workout.

  8. Great, Unique Foods to Properly Recover from a Workout • Cinnamon raisin bagel • Meal Replacement drink • Fruit Smoothie • Clif Bar • Low Fat Granola Ceral • 1% Chocolate Milk Probably the best

  9. A Little More Into Chocolate Milk • Chocolate Milk, is said to be an upcoming new sports drink. As strange as that sounds, its is. • Chocolate Milk contains all of the necessary Nutrients that you body needs after an intense workout. • Like Calcium, Protein, Natural Sugars & Natural carbohydrates

  10. Needless to Say... • Your body needs to recover as quick as it can after a workout to prevent serious consequences • So why not give your body the tools it needs to properly recuperate 

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