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Message: [QUOTE="Shig, post: 795574, member: 50190"] Allright, I'll bite. Here's a useful but relatively unknown fact about recovery. If you have an injury to an arm or a leg, and you exercise the healthy limb on the other side of your body, the injured side of your body will maintain muscle tone. To check for dehydration, pinch the skin on the back of your hand or the back of a finger. If you are properly hydrated, your skin will spring back immediately. If you are dehydrated, it will take a few seconds for your skin to return to normal. Potatoes have twice as much potassium as an equal amount of banannas. Potassium and calcium work together within muscle fibers to contract and relax a muscle. Calcium works in the contraction phase, and potassium in the relaxation phase. Everyone knows carbohydrates and protein are vital for a balanced diet, but fat is also important. You need it to metabolize vitamins and it helps in colagen production to keep skin pliable. Joints are lubricated by a substance called synovial fluid. Like motor oil, synovial fluid changes viscosity with temperature. This is one reason why it is important to warm up. Also, stretching without a proper warm-up is a major cause of injury. You are warm enough to stretch when there is a bead of sweat on your upper lip. [/QUOTE]