Those tissues are the same tissues that you want to keep in order to become stronger and a more powerful athlete. Understand that this is a critical time right after your workout. So getting your nutrition straight at this time is going to help out a lot.

What I would recommend is drinking a fruit juice as well as having a granola bar right after your workout. That's going to up the level of carbohydrates in your system, your system is going to release more insulin, and because your muscles are depleted of energy stores that energy is going to go directly back into your muscles so you're going to have more of what you need in order to be in an anabolic state.

Now, you've spiked your insulin, and you've gone back and had a meal within an hour, and you've continued your nutrition throughout the day. Let's fast forward to when you're going to go to sleep. What you're going to want to do here is take another source of protein. But this time we're going to tweak it a little bit. We're going to take a casein protein.

A casein protein is a type of protein that digests and is injected into the body much slower than a whey protein. The reason we're going to do that is you're going to hopefully be asleep for 8 hours, and you want to make sure that you are getting protein during that entire time. So it's a good idea for you to have a casein protein at that point.