Muscles grow not during the hard workouts, but instead, during recovery. It’s what you feed your muscles that dictate the rate at which it’s going to recover.
Since April 2019, I started adding 1 – 2 shakes a day to my diet. Doing so, I had two criteria:
First, it’s not going to be expensive, and Second, it’s something I would be doing daily from then on, on or off race season, for the rest of my life.
Here’s the recipe:
A. 4 Bananas (Lacatan Variant)
B. Handful of Thai Basil
C. 1/3 Tablespoon of Turmeric
D. 1/4 Tablespoon of Black Pepper
E. Half Kilo of Dalandan Press
F. 2 Tablespoon of Anlene.
The primary recovery ingredients are from A to D. E acts more as flavoring, since I dont add sugar to my shakes. F is for my own need, since I was calcium deficient before, and got resolved after taking in F since then.
Turmeric is a very good anti-inflammatory agent. One of its main component, curcumin, is best absorbed when black pepper is added. Thus 1/3 of turmeric is about the same as taking in 1 tablespoon without black pepper.