90 maconmagazine.com | FEBRUARY/MARCH 2024
How to nourish your
body post-workout
BY SHAWN MCCLENDON | PHOTO BY DSTO MOORE
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General Manager Brittany Cater
and co-owner Carl Phillips of
Fountain of Juice show off two
of their smoothies: Lemon Basil
and Tropical Detox.
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any moons ago, as a young
undergraduate at Mercer
University, I lifted weights
in the University Center gym on a
personal quest to add muscle to my
thin frame. Up to that point, muscle
mass seemed to elude me no matter
what kind of strength training routine
I undertook. Needless to say, I was
tired of lacking results and searching
for answers.
One day, I noticed that a classmate
had significantly bulked up. We worked
out in the gym at the same time, and I
saw him progressing faster than me. I
approached him to ask him his secret,
and he said one thing: post-workout
nutrition.
I'd read and heard about post-
workout nutrition, but I'd dismissed it as
unimportant. Here was a person whose
results spoke for themselves.
Post-workout nutrition is pretty
self-explanatory. It's simply food that
you consume after exercise, usually
immediately after a workout but up to
a couple of hours after. While typically
