Core Post-Protein/Recovery Matrix

It has been called the most important meal of the day, “the anabolic window”, and eating for anabolism. Whatever name you give it, the premise remains: post-workout nutrition is crucial to reaching your fitness and physique goals. Post-workout nutrition plays a number of critical anabolic (tissue building) functions, chief among them being the maximization of glycogen storage and protein synthesis, while simultaneously minimizing protein breakdown and the excessive release of catabolic (tissue destroying) hormones. Incomplete or insufficient post-workout nutrition isn’t a recipe that will likely yield a tasteful result.