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Top 10 Recovery Foods. .... The importance of replenishing muscle glycogen stores as well as fluids after heavy exercise is well understood by sports scientists and coaches. But the relatively recent discovery that muscle glycogen synthesis is more rapid if carbohydrate is consumed immediately after exercise has focused attention on early post-race strategies to promote recovery and enhance subsequent performance. After a workout, your body's stores of glycogen -- the carbohydrate that is stored in the muscles and liver -- are depleted. If you don't replenish them, your body won't recover properly and your performance will suffer during your next workout. This is particularly important for athletes who partake in intense training sessions or competitions. If you only workout a couple of times a week, you will likely restore your glycogen between sessions; however, athletes who train hard almost every day must really pay attention to what they eat immediately after the...

"Of course I'm happy because I know I won the fight, but like I said, my first concern is the satisfaction...I want the people satisfied with the performance...I don't care if I hurt my face," stated pound-for-pound champion Manny Pacquiao, who spoke to the media during the post-fight press conference about his dominant unanimous decision victory over Shane Mosley. Check out everything he had to say. 

USA Boxing Finalizes the 2011 Pan Am Qualifier Squad | News | USA Boxing The 13 boxers representing the United States will be: male light flyweight Michael Bennedosso (Fort Carson, Colo.), male flyweight John Franklin (Fort Carson, Colo.), female flyweight Christina Cruz (New York, N.Y.), male bantamweight Luis Feliciano (Milwaukee, Wis.), male lightweight Toka Kahn-Clary (Providence, R.I.), female lightweight Queen Underwood (Seattle, Wash.), male light welterweight Pedro Sosa (Bronx, N.Y.), male welterweight Errol Spence (Desoto, Texas), male middleweight Luis Arias (Milwaukee, Wis.), female middleweight Tiffanie Hearn (Louisville, Ky.), male light heavyweight Jeffrey Spencer (Fort Carson, Colo.), male heavyweight Michael Hunter (Las Vegas, Nev.), and male super heavyweight Danny Kelly (Washington DC).