How to Eat & Drink After a Marathon for Best Recovery

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is David Brown, and today we're going to talk about how to eat properly for recovery after a marathon. Now, what do I mean by recovery? So basically, you put yourself through a long day. For most of us, it's a two and a half to four hour event. We've hurt our bodies. So, recovery actually means repair and rejuvenation of all the damage you just did to your body during a long marathon. Now, how do you eat right for that? Well, the key word is carbohydrate. The immediate thing you want to do as soon as you're done running a marathon is get some hydration in you, some sort of liquid source with some carbohydrate. Sports drinks, and even more specific; recovery specific sports drinks are a fantastic thing to have right when you're done running a marathon. They supply the right amount of nutrients with the right amount of water, to make sure your recovery process starts correctly. After that, roughly oh, at two hours later, or at least within those two hours, you want to be eating plenty of carbohydrate and some rich protein sources as well. Experts agree that in a ratio of roughly four grams of carbohydrate to every one gram of protein is a good meal to be consuming for the rest of the day after a marathon."