Fluid - Muscle Recovery for Optimal Performance
It's all about performance.
Whether you are an athlete training for elite competition, or a grandparent picking up their grandson and avoiding a fall, every day we have to physically perform to meet the demands of our lifestyles. Exercise can help prepare us for these challenges, but without a recovery drink like Fluid, exercise can leave our muscles depleted and dire need of muscle recovery.
Numerous university studies show the use of a recovery drink accelerates glycogen (muscle energy) replenishment, reduces muscle damage, decreases inflammation and muscle soreness, and lowers the likelihood of chronic injury and illness. Without recovery nutrition between exercise sessions, a person's ability to stay healthy and consistently perform at peak levels is highly limited. Here is what recent research is teaching us:
- Distance runners who consume recovery drinks post-workout vs. carbohydrate beverages only consistently report less muscle soreness. (Study)
- Trained cyclists who consume recovery drinks vs. traditional sports drink show reduced post-workout amounts of the enzymes CK and LDH, biomarkers of muscle damage and breakdown. (Study)
- Non endurance athletes involved in resistance training show a 300% increase in protein synthesis when they consume a recovery drink immediately after exercise vs. those who consume the same drink 3 hours later. So not only is a recovery drink crucial, drinking it immediately after exercise is just as important. (Study)
Even more exciting, is a study on marine recruits who use a recovery drink over 54 days of basic training. The investigators report that, “Compared to placebo and control groups, the protein/carbohydrate supplemented group had an average of 33% fewer total medical visits, 28% fewer visits due to bacterial/viral infections, 37% fewer visits due to muscle/joint problems, and 83% fewer visits due to heat exhaustion.” Marines consuming a post workout recovery drink experienced faster muscle recovery, and were overall healthier than their counterparts.
According to Paul Goldberg, MS, RD, “The bottom line is that proper recovery nutrition has the potential to make a tremendous difference. Athletes who are serious about their performance should consume a recovery drink after every workout, practice, and competition. If you do so, you will be rewarded with less muscle damage, faster glycogen replenishment, improved performance in subsequent exercise, greater strength gains, and fewer injuries.”
All of the research is available online through great resources like Fluid School (http://livefluid.com/school.php), and PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/).
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