Importance of Protein

*excerpt from latest Fastgear newsletter:

PROTEIN – It’s not for guys with big muscles.

"You don't make any fitness gains during exercise, all gains are made in the recovery period.”

Now without the good roughing up you give your body during exercise no adaptation would occur, but all the gains in fitness you get are actually made in recovery.

OK so recovery is important, but where does protein come into all of this, and hay, I eat fish and chicken right?

Yep and that's good, a well balanced diet is what you need but a little extra can pay off big time, here's how.

During exercise muscle's tissue is damaged and starts to break down, this also continues for several hours after exercise stops.

About 1 hour after exercise stops new muscle synthesis starts- its suppressed during exercise
Now lean muscle is what is going to make you faster and better at your sport. Lean muscle is good and you want it, yeah, but how do you get it?

Easy, you reduce muscle breakdown and you boost muscle synthesis. But having the correct amino acids in the blood stream at the right time is not easy to achieve and the timing is vital, this is why you can't just pop a chicken sandwich.

Also the correct amino acid and carbohydrate mix enhances glycogen replacement and recovery even further. It's a cleaver combination of amino acid profile, absorption speed, intake timing, amount and composition.

I know your time is precious, with work and training, so we have made it simple for you. There are two products from High5 that have been specifically designed to optimise all of these and so maximise recovery.

4:1 For use before and during exercise.

Protein Recovery For use immediately after exercise.