If you watched any press conferences after games for the Michigan men’s basketball team, you often saw at least one player sipping on a smoothie. Those smoothies aren’t the typical sugary beverage you’d get from Tropical Smoothie — they are packed with nutrients to get the most out of the key recovery period after a long game.

“I have different smoothies for post-lift versus post-game,” said Hannah Champine (MDN, RDN, CSSD), a nutritionist who works with the basketball teams, golf teams and women’s soccer team at the University of Michigan. “For post-game, I include tart cherry juice in their smoothies. It’s high in antioxidants, which can help with muscle recovery…so in that smoothie, I do frozen strawberries, frozen blueberries, a vanilla protein drink and tart cherry juice. That’s all

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