We know you spend precious time planning your workouts, but how much time do you spend planning your recovery? All the gains of a workout are made during recovery, the time after a workout when your body grows stronger and regenerates itself. If you can’t recover, you can’t build, you can’t get better. The good news is the body can heal itself and transform more efficiently when nutrients are readily available before and after workout. Nutrient balance and timing are essential to the recovery process.
As a long time athelete, mountain biker, and martial artist I have learned to work hard to accomplish my sports goals. My name is Michael Troy and after over 20 years of cycling you would think there would be little left to learn about being a better rider or training more effectively. Actually, quite the opposite is true. We can always learn new things, new ways of improving what we do, how we perform, how far we can push ourselves. Rrecently, I learned about Fluid.
What is Fluid?
Fluid is an all natural healthy replenishment product for Fast • Complete • Muscle Recovery. Awarded "Best Nutrition Product of the Year" at TriFest '08, Fluid was originally created as part of a university senior project at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and is exploding world wide!
The Fluid Advantage
Replenish tired muscles
Reduce workout soreness
Support a stressed immune system
and much more...
How does Fluid work?
Fluid is specially formulated to help the body recover from physical activity in four different ways:
1. Fluid restores muscle energy levels with complex carbohydrates and all natural fruit sugar
2. Fluid supplies muscles with ultra pure whey protein isolate and 2500mg of muscle supporting L-Glutamine.
3. Fluid prevents aches, pains, and soreness associated with exercise by stopping inflammation before it starts.
4. Fluid replenishes the body with electrolytes and provides immune boosting Vitamin C.
Recover faster, Come back stronger
Fluid also combines ingredients that are synergistic and provide more benefit than taking them individually.
100% Natural, 100% Effective.
Fluid does NOT contain:
Artificial ingredients
Artificial colors
Artificial flavors, and it never will.
As an athelete now in his 50s, recovery was something I took for granted. I ate well and rested well, but I was missing a key part of the puzzle...I was not recovering well.
More from the Fluid School:
We at Fluid recommend a balanced diet, loaded with fresh fruits & vegetables, whole grains, lean meats and in accordance with the recommended daily allowance of vitamins and minerals. However, opponents of nutritional supplements often argue if we ate properly, we wouldn’t need food supplements. For the best possible post-exercise recovery, this is simply not true. There is a crucial window of time where the body can repair itself and develop at an accelerated rate after exercise. This is due to hormonal changes within the body during intense exercise, but the changes are temporary and return to normal rapidly.
Often I was missing that window of time by snacking after a ride, perhaps even eating a big ol' chicken burrito and thinking I was doing a good job re-fueling the machine. Isn't that enough?
More from the Fluid School:
Everything about recovery nutrition is about the speed at which nutrients can get from the mouth to the cellular level. This window is a roller coaster curve, greatest immediately after exercise, and rapidly declining. Ingestion of solid food can take hours to digest, empty the stomach, enter the blood stream, and arrive at the cellular level. At this point, the hormonal window is long gone, and no added benefits from nutrition can occur. Solid food simply takes too long to capitalize on the window of opportunity. The Fluid drink line is based on supplying the body with the right balance of the right nutrients at the right time.
Since I have begun supplementing my training with Fluid, I have been very pleased with the results. Fluid tastes good, leaves little aftertaste and is unlikely to cause stomach upset. The best part is the day after the workout when I know I have given my body the best shot at recovering well.
Who should have a recovery plan? Atheletes of all kinds, of course. But what about the construction worker after a hard day? Why not? Hard work is hard work. Try Fluid. It can be ordered in sample packs ready to mix into a water bottle. I suggest you order at least 2 servings to give it a fair shake.
