subject: How To Recover Faster From Your Workouts [print this page] In order for your body to change, you have to constantly push your limits with very intense exercise. Otherwise, you will notice little, if any change.
Now the main problem here is that intense exercise that challenges your limits is very taxing and requires very good recovery.
So here is how to recover faster from your workouts:
1. Have carbs before exercise: Not only will this keep your levels of blood sugar from dropping, but it will also protect your muscle tissue to a limited degree. The key here is to have slow digesting carbs in order to avoid any sugar crashes.
2. Eat or drink some carbs while you are exercising: Now the key here is to make sure the carbs are easily tolerated by your stomach. You see, during exercise tolerance to food changes. Thus, experiment with different sources here.
3. Drink a meal right after your workout: You see, right after your workout your active tissues have a higher number of glut-4 transporters which allow more nutrients into your cells. Thus, having a liquid meal will help get nutrients into your cells very quickly.
4. Make your workout very early: The earlier the workout the more food will get shuffled to your active tissues. You see, for hours on end after an intense exercise session, your active tissues absorb an above normal level of nutrients.
5. Drink water before, during and after exercise: You see, water enhances digestion. And having better digestion around periods of exercise will make it easier to get nutrients into your drained tissues. The faster this happens the faster you will recover.
6. Incorporate lots of non-exercise activity: This works wonders for recovery. You see, not only will you burn some extra calories, but you will also increase blood flow which will really speed up recovery. After all, blood carries all the nutrients necessary for repair.
Better recovery will translate into more intense workouts. And you may even be able to increase the frequency of exercise!
