Body Matters. What you should do after exercise

Body Matters. What you should do after exercise

Moisturizing the skin, taking food and vitamins – habitual procedures and their importance in the process of recovery of the body.

So often after the most usual, seemingly, training, we feel a strong fatigue. So what can we do to make recovery faster and more painless?

Step 1: Water procedures

After a workout, it is best to take a light warm shower. Do not listen to those who say that an ice bath is more effective. On the one hand, you cool down after heating up and invigorate your body… But now imagine what happens to a hot frying pan after being doused with cold water? Similarly, your muscles will react to the cold. After exercise, such procedures can cause heart problems. But (!) it is worth remembering that hot showers are also bad, because high temperature is the same stress for the body, for the body, for the muscles. If we talk specifically about muscles, they start to grow slower because of such procedures. Therefore, do not go to such extremes. Warm water of comfort temperature is what you need!

Step 2: Moisturize

When we exercise, our bodies lose a lot of fluid. After an intense workout – running, working out at the gym or swimming in the pool – our body needs to be cleansed and moisturized. This is necessary not only to make the skin look healthy and tight, but first of all to eliminate the natural dryness caused by the sudden loss of fluid and to allow you to feel comfortable. There is a stereotype that such products are used exclusively by women, but this is not true. For example, the NIVEA MAN brand line includes a moisturizer designed with men’s skin in mind. Remember that sports is a stress for the body and after intense exercise your body needs moisturizing and recovery as much as you do.

Step 3: Carbohydrate window

20-30 minutes after the workout you should have a large meal of protein and carbohydrate. This will allow muscle growth to occur, otherwise the muscles will be destroyed. At this time, the metabolic window opens, when the body actively consumes protein and carbohydrate food for muscle recovery. The optimal diet after training is protein shake and cottage cheese, as it is considered the most rapidly digestible protein, unlike, for example, meat. To digest meat, the body will spend a lot of time and effort, and it needs to immediately get the right amount of macronutrients after training.