Nutritional strategies to promote postexercise recovery.
@article{Beelen2010NutritionalST,
title={Nutritional strategies to promote postexercise recovery.},
author={Maureen LR Beelen and Louise M. Burke and Martin J Gibala and L JCvanLoon},
journal={International journal of sport nutrition and exercise metabolism},
year={2010},
volume={20 6},
pages={
515-32
}
}
During postexercise recovery, optimal nutritional intake is important to replenish endogenous substrate stores and to facilitate muscle-damage repair and reconditioning. After exhaustive endurance-type exercise, muscle glycogen repletion forms the most important factor determining the time needed to recover. Postexercise carbohydrate (CHO) ingestion has been well established as the most important determinant of muscle glycogen synthesis. Coingestion of protein and/or amino acids does not seem… CONTINUE READING