Your workout is only as good as your recovery. After all, if your muscles don’t recover and adapt from each sweat session, they can’t get any stronger. That’s why, as a trainer and exercise lover, I’m never short on recovery methods.
My longtime favorites—eating a combination of carbs and protein as well as performing light, aerobic exercise when I’m fatigued—aren’t all that complicated. But they are research-backed and actually do work.
But what about the off-the-beaten-path recovery methods? The ones your best friend tells you about and you see all over Facebook? Do they work? To find out, I combed through the research journals, interwebs (a scary place!), talked to top experts, and tried them myself.
Read the rest at Prevention.com!