Recovery

The only aspect of bodybuilding more important than training effort is attention to adequate recovery.

Recovering from your workout begins the moment it ends. Recovery—perhaps even more than the workout itself—is vital for making progress. Granite Supplements Recovery is a precise combination of:

• Electrolytes
• Carbohydrates including Cluster Dextrin^TM
• Essential Amino Acids (EAAs)
• Sensoril® Ashwagandha

These key ingredients protect, preserve and replenish precious muscle glycogen and help you get an anabolic / anti-catabolic jump-start on recovering from your workouts. Another great benefit: it won’t upset your stomach (unlike so many other formulas). Sip Recovery throughout your workout for best results.

Recovery – Around the Clock

To prepare for battle, a warrior arms himself before stepping on the battlefield. Therefore, we suggest you start consuming Recovery 10-15 minutes before and throughout your workout to enhance recovery from start to finish. And because these sessions can be brutal (and long), we’ve added the major electrolytes lost in sweat¹ to help keep you well hydrated^2,3. Additionally, electrolytes help with taste⁴, and we’ve balanced our flavoring system with a variety of mineral salts to make sure Recovery tastes ridiculously good.

You’d be mistaken if you think we’ve just concocted a fruity drink you might sip on the beach. The meat n’ potatoes components of Recovery work their magic with carefully chosen carbohydrates, EAAs and one of the worlds best adaptogens:

• Performance Carbohydrate combination with N-Acetyl L-Tyrosine
• Essential Amino Acid Blend
• Sensoril® Ashwagandha Extract

RECOVERY: A STRATEGIZED SUPPLEMENT SYNERGY

When it comes down to it, making muscular gains is about going beyond simply recovery: Building muscle size, day by day, inch by inch, requires a net positive effect on muscle protein balance. Reducing muscle breakdown [probably by increasing insulin levels^5,6] is one way that including carbs in your peri-workout^7-10 recovery drink gets this done. Intra-workout carbs also reduce post-exercise cortisol¹¹, an important predictor of muscle growth over the long haul^12,13. Admittedly though, the science is actually a bit fuzzy as to the acute^14,15 and long haul benefits¹⁶ of peri-workout carbs for packing on size per se, but including carbs in a recovery drink primes your muscles for restoring glycogen^17,18 (see Cyclic Dextrin® below) and there’s certainly no disadvantage to intra-workout carbohydrate¹⁹.

Before we get into the details of Recovery, be sure you don’t lose sight of the big picture when crafting your intra- and post-workout strategy. Intra-workout nutrition is just one piece of the puzzle: Substantial gains may very well mean consuming more carbohydrate and/or protein (and calories!) than subjects following most research protocols. For example, supersizing your post-workout carbohydrate (e.g., with 90-100g of carbs) may⁸ or may not²⁰ inhibit protein breakdown. However, a glycogen-filled muscle cell is generally a more anabolic one⁷ and a brutal weight training workout dramatically elevates metabolic rate^21,22, and can even temporarily prohibit glycogen replenishment despite eating a high carbohydrate diet²³. This may be why one study found that hard training plus massive (>350g) carbohydrate supplementation (even without additional protein!) produces substantial gains in muscle mass without increased body fat²⁴.

Obviously, protein has its role, too. While consuming more than ~40g of post-workout protein may not further increase protein synthesis^25-27, doubling this amount^28,29!] creates the positive protein balance we want by blunting protein breakdown. While adding more and more protein to the diet beyond a certain point^30,31 isn’t a magic bullet for building more muscle, there is also little risk of adverse health effects or gaining body fat from simply from eating large amounts of protein^32-34.

Given the above, we’ve created Recovery as a way to jumpstart a recovery strategy based on a sound diet replete with carbs, protein, and calories.

SUGGESTED USE
MIX ONE SCOOP INTO 12 TO 16 OUNCES OF WATER AND SHAKE OR STIR. FOR BEST RESULTS, BEGIN CONSUMING FIVE TO TEN MINUTES PRIOR TO TRAINING AND CONTINUE TO CONSUME DURING TRAINING. CAN ALSO BE CONSUMED AFTER TRAINING.

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