Looking to Speed Up Muscle Recovery? Here’s 5 Things You Should Be Doing

If you’ve ever worked out in your life, whether regularly or inconsistently, chances are you’ve come face to face with the soreness, pain, and aches that go hand in hand with muscle recovery. Muscle recovery is essential to preventing sports injuries, and yet, many athletes don’t understand that there are things you can do each day to help speed up your muscle recovery.

At Impact Medical Miami, we’re always staying on top of the latest techniques for proper and efficient muscle recovery. Because we believe that our clients deserve to have the best prevention tools possible to ensure they can perform at your highest level. 

Today, we wanted to discuss our top five things you should be doing that will impact and transform how your muscles recover after every workout, game, match, and more. Whether you’re just starting to get active or you’re a pro-level competitor, these tips will revolutionize your recovery from day one. 

Drink Lots of Water

This is the most essential part of building stronger, more effective muscles while encouraging faster recovery after a workout. In addition, the more water you drink, the faster you can remove metabolic waste produced during heavy exercise. 

Manual Therapy

Manual therapy is a highly effective way to encourage muscle recovery. This is because manuals actually increase the blood flow to your muscles. It also reduces your post-exercise muscle soreness. 

Eat Protein Before Your Workout

Without the correct number of amino acids, you can’t build muscle. By eating protein before your workout, you’re giving your body enough amino acids to rebuild and maintain the muscles that you ‘damage’ during your activities—eating before your workout has been shown to trigger your body to start repairing and rebuilding more muscle during and after any workout. 

Eat After Your Workout

Protein, that is. See what we’re getting at? When it comes to faster muscle recovery and preventing sports injuries during games or workouts, protein is your best friend. After your workout, it’s essential to eat something that contains both protein and carbs to help your muscles recover and restore the glycogen that they lost. 

Rest

Resting is critical to your recovery. If you’re pushing your same muscle groups every day of the week in rigorous workouts, you’re going to wear yourself thin and cause more damage. Instead, take a day or two in-between the muscle groups you work out to rest and recover. If you notice that your performance is going downhill, be sure to add in a few more days of rest. 

These are just a few of the best ways to help your muscles recover faster after workouts or competition. The sports injury and recovery specialists at Impact Medical Miami are here to help guide you through even more comprehensive muscle recovery techniques. Call us to find out how we can get you back on the road to recovery today!