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Discovery Channel's Michael Barry - From Hospital Bed to Mountain Top

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"Since I have started using Master Amino Acid Pattern (MAP), I have noticed improved recovery between training sessions. In the last month I have been doing large training loads and the benefits have been noticeable.

I look forward to using MAP through the demanding racing season." - Michael Barry

With MAP I have been able to handle high workloads day after day and have been able to ride the fine line between being too tired to train and fit and strong.

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From MAP Team Member: Discovery Team Pro Cyclist Michael Barry.

In the last six weeks I have gone from a hospital bed to sitting on my bike on a Pyrenean peak. It feels great to be riding again after a bad injury and several weeks off the bike.

Thankfully, I was able to keep active, walking everyday, despite the factures to my vertebrae. Ten days after I crashed heavily at the Tour of Flanders, I was back on my bike, riding the trainer indoors. To prevent from further damaging the vertebrae I sat upright on my bike, holding onto the top of a doorframe above my head to keep the vertebrae from being further compressed in a crouched over position.

I progressively increased my time on the trainer—from forty five minutes to one and a half hours—and then, four weeks after the crash I began riding outdoors again, although gingerly, and in a very upright position.

Now I am training normally, in the mountains with my teammates. It feels good to be riding up hour long climbs, breathing intensely and accomplishing my training goals.

Since the injury I have consistently used MAP and I think it has helped with my recovery as I haven't lost nearly as much fitness as I had assumed I would have and this will help me get back to racing sooner than expected.

On the bike I feel good and I am now working towards my objectives for the coming months, the first being the Tour of Switzerland in June.

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