Crunchy Peanut & Banana Smoothie

Do you ever hit the gym, leave feeling fantastic and then about an hour later you feel absolutely zapped? Perhaps you’re not giving your body what it needs to repair itself. A post workout snack can help to replenish energy and repair your muscles. You see ultimately, working out makes us stronger, fitter and helps to increase our metabolism but short term it requires our body to repair.

In a very basic form, our body repairs through the breakdown of old and damaged proteins and then the production of new ones. To assist the repairing process we can give ourselves two important things, protein and carbohydrates. Protein to assist protein synthesis and carbohydrates to help replace glycogen.