Best Post Workout Supplements

Vintage Build

Old School Lab’s Vintage Build comes in as our best post-workout for men. It features three no-nonsense, scientifically proven ingredients to achieve the one goal common to all male lifters: build lean mass! Its trifecta consists of

• BCAAs
• Creatine monohydrate
• L-Glutamine

While it is true that these ingredients are common to many post-workout supplements, Vintage Build’s formula contains them in doses that are proven to be effective for male athletes. BCAAs are provided in a proven 2:1:1 ratio, and creatine and L-Glutamine at 3g and 2g, respectively.

Vintage Build also avoids using artificial ingredients and dyes. Furthermore, Vintage Labs carefully monitors its supply chain for ingredient quality. Both of these factors are crucial for producing a formula that promotes the flow of free testosterone, which all men need to achieve a chiseled, alpha physique.

Jacked Factory Power Build

Jacked Factory, also makers of Growth Surge, offer a second option for your post-workout arsenal. Unlike Growth Surge, which features creatine monohydrate, L-carnitine L-tartrate, and Betaine anhydrous, Power Build features a full range of post-workout ingredients:

• L-Glutamine
• L-Leucine
• Creatine monohydrate
• Beta-alanine
• L-Carnitine
• L-Tartrate
• Betaine
• Bioperine

These added ingredients will not only help you recover but also help you grow in the hours after your session is over, and that is what makes it our second choice for the best post-workout supplement for men in particular. It also reduces muscle soreness and increases strength and power.

Power Build is a powerhouse for post-workout recovery, and it is sweetened and flavored naturally with no artificial dyes or fillers.

Cellucor Alpha Amino

Don’t let the “Alpha” in the name fool you—Cellucor’s Alpha Amino is ideal for female athletes! It contains the post-workout ingredients your body needs without any added carbohydrates or sugars, which helps you focus on staying lean and toned even long after you’ve left the gym. Key ingredients in Cellucor’s formula include

• BCAAs
• Amino acids
• Electrolytes

Added electrolytes in Cellucor’s formula help keep your body hydrated, which is its number one priority. If you’re not hydrated, all other bodily functions are impaired. Hydration will improve your performance in the gym and also promote recovery.

BCAAs are provided in the proven 2:1:1 ratio, and your strength, power, and muscle endurance will be well supported in this low-calorie, sugar-free solution.

FitMiss BCAA Recovery

FitMiss BCAA Recovery, made by MusclePharm, which also makes the popular women’s pre-workout FitMiss Ignite, is a no-nonsense, simple BCAA recovery formula that provides just what women need after a workout—and nothing they don’t. It contains the three BCAAs, which are necessary to any strength regimen:

• Leucine
• Isoleucine
• Valine

The reason these are so important is that they account for nearly one-third of all the amino acids in muscle protein. The combination of these three in the right amounts helps promote muscle growth, slow muscle damage, promote the use of glucose, and provide energy.

As your lean muscle tissue grows and repairs, the presence of these amino acids also promote fat loss. BCAA recovery is available in two popular flavors: Strawberry Margarita and Blue Raspberry.

Optimum Nutrition 2:1:1 Recovery

If you want gains, you need caloric excess, and that’s exactly what Optimum Nutrition’s 2:1:1 Recovery formula provides. In addition to BCAAs, a staple in post-workout supplements, ON’s formula includes added carbohydrates and protein to provide you with the complete post-workout recovery meal. Ingredients include:

• Waxy maize starch
• Glucose, sucrose, and fructose
• Hydrolyzed whey protein isolates
• Micellar casein
• Egg albumen
• BCAAs

The precise ratio of easily digesting carbohydrates and quality proteins optimize every dimension of the post-workout recovery process. Carbohydrates restore muscle glycogen, and amino acids support muscle repair and recovery.

The formula also includes different protein types, namely hydrolyzed whey isolates, micellar casein, and egg albumen, which digest at different rates in your body. What this means for you is that you are around-the-clock anabolic!

Universal Nutrition Torrent

Universal Nutrition, makers of the popular Animal line of supplements, offers Torrent, its post-workout solution for serious strength athletes. Torrent is a comprehensive mass activator that is designed to target every conceivable need the body has during the crucial post-workout window. Ingredients include:

• Fast acting carbs
• Hefty dose of leucine
• Advanced creatines
• Easily assimilated proteins

Torrent contains these crucial ingredients in precise amounts needed to repair muscles, distribute nutrients in the body, and promote muscle growth. Universal recommends consuming Torrent immediately following each workout. At just over three hundred calories per serving, you’ve got a one-way ticket to Gainesville.

Vega Sport Recovery Accelerator

The name Vega Sport will be familiar to athletes who are dedicated to all-natural, vegetarian, plant-based, and vegan nutrition supplementation. Vega Sport began with an entirely plant-based mission, and its post-workout formula, Recovery Accelerator, follows this tradition with the following ingredients:

• Carbohydrates
• B vitamins
• Electrolytes
• Plant-based protein
• Various plant extracts

Recovery Accelerator is a comprehensive solution to nearly all post-workout needs, from endurance activities to strength activities. Plant-based proteins provide muscle-recovery support, while carbohydrates from brown rice syrup solids support energy levels.

Various micronutrients from plant- and root-based sources help reduce inflammation and provide vital nutrients to your body after strenuous exercise.

Natural Force Organic Recovery Nectar

Like Vega Sport’s post-workout formula, Natural Force’s Organic Recovery Nectar is completely plant-based and all organic. It is designed to promote muscle repair, rehydrate the body, provide joint and immune support, and provide vital micronutrients in the post-workout window. Among its all-natural ingredients are:

• Coconut water powder
• Hemp protein powder
• Chia seed powder
• Maca root powder
• Goji berry powder
• Cherry fruit powder

In addition to post-workout recovery, Natural Force’s Recovery Nectar is also useful for getting over a nagging cold or just a long, exhausting day. Your body will feel replenished and restored, and you will be ready to get back to it the next day hydrated and healthy.

Progenex Cocoon

One of the most frequently overlooked dimensions of a well-rounded physical training program is physical rest—and by physical rest, we don’t mean lack of activity but actual deep sleep.

You can’t supplement yourself out of bad sleeping habits, and Progenex Cocoon’s specially formulated night-time formula kills two birds with one stone: it provides the nutrients your body needs to recovery and also sleep aids to help you achieve deep sleep. Key ingredients in Coccoon are

• Micellar casein
• BCAAs
• Metamorphagen

Metamorphagen is a proprietary tryptophan peptide that reduces sleep interruptions while fostering deep, sound, restorative sleep so that you wake up feeling strong, rested, and fully recovered. The slow-digesting casein mixed with BCAAs provides your body with a slow but steady source of muscle-building nutrients while you sleep.

Through its strategic combination of ingredients, Cocoon stimulates protein synthesis, increases lean muscle mass, speeds recovery, improves immunity, reduces blood pressure, and more.

Animal PM

Like Progenex’s Cocoon, Universal Nutrition’s Animal PM contains sleep-promoting ingredients, but instead of a proprietary formula, it achieves this through a blend of natural herbs and L-Theanine they have named as its “Sleep and Relaxation Complex.” This complex includes:

• Valerian root powder
• Chamomile root powder
• Mucuna pruriens seed
• Hops

Animal PM is also loaded with aminos, natural growth hormone boosters, and other vitamins and minerals, including vitamin B6, magnesium, zinc, L-tryptophan, L-glutamine, and more. A serving of Animal PM turns your regular night’s rest into a multi-hour anabolic process.

Animal’s formula is non-habit forming, so you can cycle on and off as needed without concern about long-term effects. Animal suggests using PM in conjunction with its flagship product, Animal Pak, for best results.