Best Foods For Muscle Recovery & Repair

WATERMELON AND WATERMELON JUICE

Watermelon is sweet, hydrating, and loaded with nutrients. What’s more, eating watermelon or sipping on watermelon juice could be a good way to promote muscle recovery after exercise.

FATTY FISH

Fatty fish like sardines, salmon, and trout are excellent sources of nutrients that your body needs for muscle recovery.

POMEGRANATE JUICE

Pomegranate juice is a rich source of polyphenols, which are plant compounds with antioxidant and antiinflammatory properties. As such, drinking pomegranate juice may benefit muscle recovery.

BEET JUICE

Beets are loaded with dietary nitrates and pigments called betalains (2Trusted Source, 19Trusted Source).

Dietary nitrates may help send oxygen to your muscles and improve the efficiency of mitochondria — organelles, or parts of cells, that produce the energy that fuels your cells.

WHEY PROTEIN SHAKES

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Some research suggests that whey protein may promote muscle recovery after exercise in both athletes and nonathletes.

EGGS

Eggs are known as a nutrient-dense food and favored by athletes for their high content of bioavailable protein. Eating them after a workout helps stimulate muscle recovery.

STARCHY VEGETABLES

When you work out intensely, you deplete your muscle stores of glycogen, the stored form of glucose.

COFFEE

Sipping on coffee pre- or post-exercise may help reduce DOMS.

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