Post Workout Recovery Help!

Plenty of water and a good diet.

There is no real way to speed it up. You are sore because exercise creates microscopic muscle tears (this sounds bad but it is a good thing!). This is what causes your muscles to become stronger! To make it more bearable, I would rest, hot tub or hot bath, ibuprofen, and drink water.

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THIS
It just takes time.
Rest between workouts is just as important as the actual workouts.

Hi! I'm getting back into working out regularly and now I'm very sore! Any tips on how to make the soreness go away quickly or speed up recovery in a healthy way? Any and all tips are appreciated!

This may sound nuts, but I find that gonig for a long walk helps. It hurts at first, but it helps loosen up my legs and ease the soreness.

i like to walk after a workout to help bring my heart rate down nice and slow, and then i stretch for a good ten minutes.

you know the saying "if you can't afford to tip, you can't afford to drink at the bar?" well, i feel that if you don't have time to warm up and cool down, you don't have time to work out.

The best thing for soreness is easy movement: walking, swimming, easy stretching. Like someone else said, you can't speed up the healing, so being sedentary will just make you stiff. Seriously. When I am really sore I just go for a slow walk, get the blood flowing. Good thing is that it will go away in a few days!

Actually there is something you can do to aid with recovery, body builders have been doing it for years. Load up on protein this is what your body is looking for to feed your mussels. Also amino acids "BCAA" will aid in getting more protein into your mussels. Get your self some form of Whey and some BCAA amino acid, also a good multi vitamin will help. Don't nap after a work out. The soreness you feel is lactic acids building up in your mussels, Stretch and massage will also help with blood flow.

I load up on protein 1.2g for every lb of LEAN body mass ( key word is LEAN BODY MASS)

I won't name products but i'll tell you what they are...

Morning:
Slow release protein shake
multi vitamin
4000 IU of vitamin D3
Fiber
fish oil

cardio 30min

Breakfast:
Six egg whites
glass skim milk

Caffeine based stimulant
BCAA
Weight training 1hr

Fast acting protein shake 50g-60g of protein (Between 15-30min after work out (there is a small window to get the most out of protein)

lunch:
egg whites and tuna

dinner:
chicken, vegetables, brown rice...

Magnesium helps me.

Protein shakes and glutamine powder helps you recover

I have to disagree with you the sore feeling you feel is lactic acids in the mussels ask any body builder and you will hear the same thing, after a while you body will be better able to deal with it and produce less and less there for you won't get that soreness feeling any longer in steed you will just get good pumps.

Also the amount of protein you body needs really can not be achieved through diet alone with the intentions of cutting (loosing body fats) your calorie count will be way to high and you will not loose weight. That's not to say that just eating correctly and less calories doesn't work it does. But the op question was about mussel soreness.

A good Multi Vitamin and fish oil has been proven for a long time now for general health. Also there are many proven studies on D3 and weight loss.