Recovery, the key to peak performance

If rehydration were the only factor to enhancing performance, a conventional sports drink would be enough. But athletes don't just need to rehydrate, their muscles need to recover, too. Protein speeds muscle recovery.

During prolonged exercise, the body breaks down muscle to meet energy needs. Research has shown that consuming a carbohydrate-protein sports drink during exercise can minimize muscle breakdown, may aid in supporting muscle synthesis, and improve protein balance. In contrast, a conventional sport drink during exercise resulted in an increase in muscle breakdown and a decrease in synthesis which is definitely not optimal for athletes.

Why is this important? It is crucial for endurance athletes to maintain lean muscle mass during training and competition to maximize performance. Therefore, a carbohydrate-protein sports drink can aid in maintaining protein balance which helps to maintain muscle mass.

What athlete doesn't want to recover quicker? That's why the protein in Accelerade helps start the rebuilding process of muscles damaged during exercise.

The ability of any athlete to perform at their best is directly related to how fast their muscles recover after exercise. Protein-enhanced Accelerade gives muscles a jump-start on getting back to peak performance. In fact, Accelerade has been shown to significantly reduce muscle damage following exercise. Compared to a conventional sports drink, it minimizes muscle soreness.

In 2004 and 2006, researchers at James Madison University studied post-exercise muscle damage in cyclists who drank Accelerade or a conventional sports drink while riding a stationary bicycle to exhaustion by measuring lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and/or creatine kinase (CK) levels, biomarkers of muscle damage. In both studies, athletes who drank Accelerade during exercise experienced a reduction in musclular damage (evidenced by lower LDH and/or CK plasma values) then when drinking the conventional drink. Athletes who drank Accelerade also reported a decrease in muscle soreness 24 hours after exercise.

Why drink Accelerade? Accelerade helps to speed up the recovery process by reducing muscle damage and also decreases soreness that can occur with endurance exercise. Accelerade is beneficial during and also after exercise to enable the athlete to perform at his/her best later on that same day or days following.

Endurox R4 Recovery Drink

• Recover faster - Replenishes muscle glycogen levels 128% more than a carbohydrate drink
  
• Recover better - Reduces post-exercise muscle damage up to 36%
  
• Come back stronger- Extends endurance up to 55% in a subsequent workout
• Optimal carbohydrate profile with less sugar

HAMMER NUTRITION

• Enhance energy and endurance.
• Reduce muscle fatigue.
• Increase workload capacity.
• Enhance recovery.
• Gluten-Free and Vegan Friendly.

• Superior cramp prevention.
• Full spectrum electrolytes in balanced formula.
• Versatile dosing for a variety of conditions.
• Offered in capsule or powder form.
• Gluten-Free and Vegan Friendly.

Cramping is your body's final warning signal that you're on empty electrolyte wise. However, your performance is deteriorating and you are slowing down long before you feel the slightest twinge of a cramp. To keep your body's muscular, digestive, nervous, and cardiac systems firing on all cylinders you need a consistent supply of all electrolytic minerals, not just sodium and potassium. Plus, in many instances, you require greater volumes of electrolytes than any sports drink or gel can provide. That is why Endurolytes fulfills such a crucial component of your fueling by supplying your body with a perfectly balanced, full-spectrum, rapidly assimilated electrolyte source, allowing you to meet your widely variable electrolyte needs with tremendous precision, hour after hour, no matter what the weather throws at you.

Recoverite 32 serving $49.95

Subtle Citrus flavor

• Minimize post-exercise muscle soreness.
• Rebuild muscle tissue.
• Restore muscle glycogen.
• Gluten-Free.
• Contains no MSG.

How well you perform tomorrow depends on how well you recover today, which is why you can't cut corners when it comes to your post-workout fueling. Recoverite supplies your body with the proper 3:1 ratio of complex carbohydrates and the highest quality whey protein isolate, along with generous amounts of multi-beneficial glutamine (a whopping 3 grams per serving!), the potent antioxidant l-carnosine, and a full-spectrum electrolyte profile. The result is rapid and enhanced recovery, which allows you to obtain the maximum value from all your hard workouts, ideally prepping your body for your next workout or race. Make sure you're recovering right with Recoverite and remember, it makes a superb meal replacement drink as well. Train hard, recover right today and feel great tomorrow.

Extra Benefits:
The amino acid glutamine, also contained in Hammer Whey, plays a vital role in the health of the muscles, immune system, and digestive tract. Glutamine is arguably the key "recovery amino" as it (A) helps boost the immune system (B) helps to reduce the symptoms of overtraining syndrome (C) plays a role in enhancing glycogen synthesis (D) stimulates muscle protein synthesis for the rebuilding of lean muscle tissue.

Energy Gel Single Serve Packets $1.25 ea

Flavors: apple cinnamon, banana, chocolate, espresso (w/caffeine), orange, plain, raspberry, tropical (w/caffeine), vanilla

• Rock solid energy.
• Made with real fruit and wholesome ingredients.
• Versatile and economical.
• Gluten-Free and Vegan Friendly.
• Contains no MSG.

For over a decade, Hammer Gel has been the benchmark of concentrated carbohydrate energy, primarily because of what it doesn't contain. Hammer Gel has no added refined, simple sugars and no artificial colors or sweeteners.

Choose either single-serving pouches or the cost-effective jugs for even, reliable energy, not the flash and crash of sugar-loaded products. You get only what's good for you: complex carbohydrates, natural ingredients, and real fruit. The result is a great tasting concentrated fuel source that goes down and digests easier than any other energy gel.

Hammer Gel is versatile as well, you can drink it straight, add it to your water bottle, or combine it with Sustained Energy, HEED, and Perpeteum to create a variety of tasty energy combinations for any length activity, anywhere, anytime.

Premium Insurance Caps $27.95

• Superior overall health support.
• Fill nutrient gaps in diet.
• More energy throughout entire day.
• Better digestion.
• 3 convenient sizes.
• Gluten-Free and Vegan Friendly.

Premium Insurance Caps contain superb levels of the B complex vitamins, amounts that replicate many stress support formulas currently available, thus making those particular products unnecessary in your supplement regimen.

After many years of offering PICs in one format - 30 individually wrapped packets containing 7 capsules each (210 capsules total)- we've decided to expand your options. After receiving lots of feedback from athletes who choose to split up the 7 capsules over two days, we now offer this great product in non-packeted 210-capsule and 120-capsule containers. With these non-packeted, loose tablet containers, the task of taking divided doses and/or fewer-than-seven capsules daily becomes much easier.

For those who are new to Hammer Nutrition supplements and want to give this powerful multivitamin/mineral supplement a try, our 120-capsule, non-packeted container is the perfect starter kit. At 7 capsules daily, this provides a 17-day supply; however, if only 4 capsules daily are necessary, this provides a full month's supply. For those of you who prefer the larger 210-capsule version -an amount that lasts a month or more, depending on usage- you now have two options.

Tissue Rejuvenator $24.95

• Reduce pain, inflammation, and swelling.
• Increase joint integrity and mobility.
• Allow decreased NSAID use.
• Gluten-Free.

Extra Benefits:
Tumeric, one of the components in Tissue Rejuvenator, in addition to being a powerful anti-inflammatory, is also a well-known antioxidant and anti-carcinogenic agent.

Heed Sports Drink 32 servings $21.95

Flavors: Lemon Lime, Mandarin Orange, Plain

• Steady, consistent energy.
• Buffer lactic acid.
• Help prevent cramps.
• Gluten-Free and Vegan Friendly.
• Contains no MSG.

Sports drinks have been around a long time and for many athletes they're more convenient than energy gels. Unfortunately, most sports drinks are not much more than artificially colored sugar water that does little to aid your performance and even less for your health. That is why we developed HEED as a healthy alternative for you. HEED's subtle tasting, all-complex carbohydrate formula goes down easily and supplies you with consistent, long-lasting energy and the electrolytes you need to keep pushing the pace. Because we add no citric acid to the formula, it will not burn your throat or stomach no matter how long you drink it. HEED's sweeteners - stevia and xylitol - are actually good for you, xylitol being especially beneficial for helping promote oral health. The full-spectrum, all chelated mineral, electrolyte profile helps satisfy your body's mineral requirements. L-Carnosine and Chromium Polynicotinate help to buffer lactic acid and support stable blood glucose levels. If you prefer sports drinks over energy gels or like to use the two together, try HEED and find out what a sports drink done right can do for your athletic performance.