K. Aleisha Fetters
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!