The advantage of cocktails in comparison with ordinary food is small, but it can be appreciated only by a person who really loads his muscles in full. Cocktails are very easy to assimilate (like all liquid foods, compared to solid foods), and are, as it were, concentrates of nutrients.
After training, as is known to many, a protein-carbohydrate window opens. Our muscles have spent all their resources, and the muscle fibers need to be urgently restored, not to mention the growth. Therefore, you need to quickly throw firewood - this fuel after training can be just a cocktail.
In fat or in muscle?
After strength training, a protein cocktail will go specifically to muscle growth. This is due to the fact that the metabolism at this time is really accelerated, the body is looking for food. Believe me, nothing from the eaten will not be postponed in the form of fat.
However, this rule does not apply during fat-burning exercises, or weight loss classes. The fact is that the essence of training for weight loss is precisely to create this state of hunger inside. This is the only way to achieve a partial splitting of fat.
What is a better protein cocktail?
Restoring cocktails after training are good in that they are easily digested. They should contain proteins and carbohydrates, but not fats. After the workout, curd is also excellent, as a source of easily digestible protein, but not caffeinated drinks (tea, coffee), and not fatty foods. Caffeine will interfere with the process of muscle recovery, and fat can not be digested, since all the blood is attached to the muscles, not to the stomach.
You can buy cocktail mixes in sports nutrition stores, or prepare them yourself from the same cottage cheese, eggs, kefir, milk, fruits, etc. It is important to feel your body here, because someone will be harmed by the sportpit only because it causes psychological discomfort - "who knows what is in this powder?"