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The Do’s and Don’ts of Drinking After Exercise

Sports beers are all the rage, but does downing a post-workout brew help or hurt?

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6 min readAug 5, 2020

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Finishing a workout with a refreshing beer has a long tradition among athletes. In “Before Times,” many marathons, bike races, and ski events often featured beer tents in the finishing area, and now that we’re…

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Christie Aschwanden
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Author of GOOD TO GO: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery (Norton, 2019). Twitter: @CragCrest christieaschwanden.com