Josh Perez Fitness

During an athletes competitive career or an average person fitness routine, an anti-oxidant formula that complements your multivitamin is paramount. The goal of taking an antioxidant is to decrease some of the deleterious oxidative effects of exercise.

We are all susceptible to harmful environmental chemicals, aging, intense exercise, and the rays of the sun on a daily basis. This increases our already delicate but normal free radical production and protection balance from increasing damage to our bodies. In other words, this will accelerate our aging process and possibly speed up the start of certain diseases.

Though moderate exercise can increase free radicals, high intensity exercise may exceed the body’s natural ability to protect against long-term damage. Many antioxidant studies on exercise focus on aerobic training (cardio). Some latest research examined weight training and antioxidant supplements, they found that the weightlifters who supplemented with vitamin E at 1200 IU/d, significantly reduced the markers for muscle damage. Also, taking vitamin C also resulted in reduction of cortisol (catabolic hormone/ natural human toxin) following training. Lastly, it increased the post-workout testosterone to cortisol ratio in weightlifters and is showed to enhance the anabolic (muscle growth) environment.

With the majority of evidence, it supports that taking vitamin E, vitamin C, and beta-carotene supplements (antioxidants) will lower your fatigue rate, and will bolster your workouts. Also, the supplementation of an antioxidant will enhance recovery, and the length of time for optimal performance (productive years of competition)!

Below, I put my recommendation of the best time release antioxidants for vitamin C, vitamin E, and beta-carotene supplements.

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