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Performance is nothing without recovery
Performance is nothing without recovery
Recover faster, perform better with BetterYou Magnesium
Muscle recovery after exercise is often overlooked, but without this important step you may struggle to achieve your full potential and succeed in your fitness goals.
Picture running a marathon without fuelling your body with the right nutrients first. Imagine how this could affect your performance? Not allowing your muscles to recover adequately throughout your training can hinder your sports performance in a similar way.
An effective recovery routine allows you to keep training at the same intensity, avoiding impact on your performance.
Magnesium for muscle recovery and growth
Magnesium is a crucial mineral, important for sports nutrition and recovery. Magnesium plays a fundamental role in muscle contraction, skeletal strength and energy production, helping to sustain the high oxygen consumption necessary for athletic performance.
Supports electrolyte balance
Contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism
Aids normal protein synthesis
Contributes to a reduction of tiredness and fatigue
Research has shown significant decreases in magnesium both during and after exercise and replacing lost magnesium is fundamental to encourage natural recovery, ensuring you’re better able to cope with the next exercise session.
Magnesium is lost through sweat, urine and through the gut and this loss is increased during physical activity. Magnesium is responsible for over 300 reactions in the body, therefore not replacing lost magnesium could impair the body's ability to perform.
“BetterYou’s magnesium helps me to push my limits and stay there for as long as possible, delaying muscle fatigue and allowing my body’s energy system to become as effective and efficient as possible.”
Alex Rhodes, GB Triathlete
Why is muscle recovery important?
After intense exercise, damage to the muscle fibres and cell membranes can lead to inflammation, swelling and delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS).
Delayed-onset muscle soreness is muscle pain that begins between 24 – 48 hours after high intensity physical activity that your body isn’t prepared for.
DOMS can be an indication of inflammation within the body and excessive muscle soreness that does not decrease over time, most likely is a sign that your recovery routine needs to improve.
Read our recovery guide below to find out how to adapt a recovery routine to work around you and your training schedule.
The BetterYou Recovery Guide
Improving your athletic performance and increasing endurance isn’t just a result of intense training, there are many lifestyle choices outside of the gym that can drive you towards your physical fitness goals.
In this recovery guide, we suggest the top 5 tips for avoiding soreness, burnout and muscle injuries.
1. Magnesium
Magnesium is the single most important mineral for sports nutrition. Topical magnesium (absorbed through the skin), can be used pre, during and post workout to encourage muscle recovery and reduce potential onset of future discomfort and cramping. Magnesium supplementation encourages a fast-tracked but natural recovery, ensuring you are better able to cope with the next exercise session.
Pre-workout
We recommend:
Magnesium Oil Body Spray
Use 5-10 sprays of Magnesium Body Spray across muscles and areas of concern and then begin your warm-up.
Mid-workout
We recommend:
Magnesium Gel
If you begin to experience muscle tension or discomfort during a workout, we recommend applying magnesium topically to the muscle and rubbing it in. Magnesium is a natural relaxant, helping to ease muscle tension and pain.
Post-workout
We recommend:
Magnesium Flakes
Following a cool-down routine you can apply another 5-10 sprays of Magnesium Body Spray to relax the muscles that have been working hard, or soak in a magnesium rich bath to enhance remineralization.
Magnesium Sports Bundle
Get 3 for the price of 2 when purchasing all 3 products as part of our Magnesium Sports Bundle.
2. Stretching
There are so many benefits to stretching your muscles properly before a workout. You'll be able to achieve more from your training and reduce the risk of injury and delayed-onset muscle soreness the next day. When you're so focused on training it's easy to neglect the warm up and cool-down but they are so important for both performance and recovery.
Stretching also increases flexibility and energy flow.
3. Hydration
Dehydration can have a major impact not only on the recovery of our muscles, but it can also affect everything we do – from dizziness, to headaches to fatigue. Staying hydrated, especially during physical activity is essential.
During exercise, we need more water in our bodies to help cool us down through sweating, and to rehydrate us – without adequate hydration during a workout your performance and ability to succeed will be affected.
We recommend:
Magnesium Water Hydrate
Magnesium Water Hydrate is a high-dosage magnesium drink to support the replenishment of key minerals lost during mental and physical exertion.
It contains a unique high-strength triple-blend of magnesium citrate, glycinate and Irish Sea minerals.
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4. Sleep and rest
The body recovers at its fastest rate while asleep. Sleep is a fundamental piece of the puzzle in terms of recovery and without adequate sleep, the body cannot fully repair itself ahead of the next training session, leading to soreness, fatigue and affected athletic performance.
As well as ensuring you give your body enough sleep, rest days are also crucial when training towards a fitness goal. Overtraining can lead to injuries and lack of motivation and this overachieving attitude can do significant harm to your training. We suggest planning time in your program for rest days – 2-3 a week is recommended.
We recommend:
Magnesium Sleep Lotion
Delivering an expertly blended combination of magnesium oil and natural lavender, the lotion helps to relax tired muscles, slow sensory activity, and quieten the mind, allowing for a deeper and more sustained sleep cycle.
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5. Massage
There are many benefits of massage for muscle recovery and a good post-workout massage can decrease the risk of DOMS. Muscle massage assists with healing damaged muscle fibers and increases blood circulation.
Massage can also relieve muscle stiffness and provide relaxation for the body and mind, helping you wind down after an intense workout.
We recommend massaging 5 sprays of Magnesium Body Spray across muscles post-workout.
We recommend:
Magnesium Oil Body Spray
BetterYou Magnesium Oil Body Spray is our strongest and purest magnesium supplement and provides the ultimate way to replenish magnesium levels. A simple and scientifically proven method of magnesium supplementation.
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