Muscle Building Foods And Nutrition Support Your Nutcracker Season

By Dianne M. Buxton

Every dance studio is buzzing with preparations or are already in their Nutcracker Season. Dancers focus on muscle building foods, and yet the nutrition from healthy proteins can linger in the blood if not encountered by specific vitamins. Every professional and very young dancer should understand this process. You can restore your muscles properly if you know how to build muscle.

Unfortunately the organ meats that are the most nutritious, such as heart, and liver, are not well-liked by many people. However, these meats provide ample B complex vitamins.

Other lean proteins including eggs and fish, are essential during heavy rehearsal times, for both performance and recovery.

If organizing the healthiest snacks and meals is just too much, I urge you to get a grass-fed whey protein food supplement with which to make protein drinks. You can carry it with you, shake it up fresh, and never be left hungry or resorting to fatty high chemical white bread lunch meat sandwiches. Most protein powders are not meal replacements, but they are excellent if you cannot get a healthy snack.

In addition to eating good protein, a muscle building factor is having the vitamin B6, vitamin B12 and Folic Acid in your blood to convert the amino acid homocysteine to the amino acids that build muscle. These three vitamins are commonly formulated together, and there are some excellent brands that provide a sublingual soft tablet that melts, or a spray applied under the tongue. It cannot get any easier than that.

Having an easy to mix magnesium powder to relax muscles is a good idea too. Taking some of this mineral before going to bed allows your muscles to let you get a nice deep sleep. Sometimes magnesium and potassium are mixed in capsules, and that is also handy for replenishing the minerals you lose through exertion and perspiration.

You as a dancer have individual requirements for health. Even if you are a ten year old reading this, help your parents get you the elements of diet that you need to succeed. And learn all you can about nutrition and muscle building foods.