Exercising consumes a lot of your energy. The body cannot recover fully if energy is not regained within 15-20 minutes of finishing the workout. If not a proper meal, eating even a little snack helps bring back the energy levels. It is more likely that you focus on a pre-workout meal than the post workout meal but the latter is as important as the former, if not more. In fact, hard workouts make it all the more imperative for the body to take in the right nutrients in order to fuel and refuel muscles. Why is Eating Post Workout Important? When you work out, the glycogen stores of muscles are used up for fuel which leads to muscles running out of glycogen. Moreover, some proteins that are present in your muscles get broken down. Post the workout, your body tries to recollect its glycogen caches and repair those muscle proteins.…