The leading brand of products pressed from Montmorency cherries. No preservatives or other added ingredients.
Sports Performance
Elite players from various disciplines including national soccer teams, rugby squads, tennis champions and other world class athletes use Montmorency cherries in their nutrition plans. Research shows that benefits include better sleep, accelerated recovery and less post-training soreness, leading to performance gains. CherryActive 30ml on-the-go packs are accredited by the Informed Sport program, ensuring they are batch-tested for banned substances. Noticeable results typically occur within a few days to two weeks of daily consumption of CherryActive.
A diet rich in Montmorency cherries may improve sports performance and recovery.
Rapid recovery can facilitate higher training volumes and greater improvements in strength, power and endurance - what every athlete seeks.
CherryActive powers athletes
Competitive sport or intense training often incites immediate or delayed acute muscle soreness caused by microscopic damage to muscle fibres, together with oxidative damage from an increase in free radical activity. Montmorency cherries contain significant levels of natural compounds, called anthocyanins. These have been shown to possess anti-inflammatory properties, which can reduce the inflammatory response to demanding training regimes.
Carb load with CherryActive
Besides well-documented recovery benefits, Montmorency cherries contain a mix of carbohydrates (glucose and fructose fruit sugars) that can fuel muscles before and during exercise and reload glycogen stores post-exercise.
A 30ml serving of CherryActive contains over 25g of naturally occurring carbohydrate - a mixture of fructose and glucose - which can keep exercising muscles loaded with energy-giving glycogen.
EFSA (European Food Safety Agency) has recently adopted the health claim:
Carbohydrate solutions can contribute to the improvement of physical performance during high intensity and long-lasting exercise in healthy trained adults (interestingly they define high intensity exercise as that greater than 65% VO2 max and long lasting as at least an hour).
Faster recovery rates + better sleep = ability to train harder and frequently
leading to improved performance!
Everyday athletes are also following the elites’ cherry devotion. An increasing number of gym goers, runners and sportspeople include CherryActive products in their exercise nutrition regimes for the same reason: a delicious and simple way to improve performance, recovery, sleep and feeling less sore. Check out our quick and easy Montmorency cherry-inspired recipes here.
Recommended Use in Sport
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For faster recovery and less muscle soreness: one serving diluted with water within 30 minutes of the end of a training session.
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For optimum fuelling during high intensity or long-lasting exercise: one serving every 20 minutes.
One serving = 30ml CherryActive concentrate
