Step 5. Train your brain to use new muscle through short, fast repeats. Several times a week, run short, fast repeats. Ten repeats, about 20 seconds long, run at about 90 percent of your maximum speed, will train the brain and nervous system to recruit the leg muscles.
Proteins are amino acids that serve as building blocks of muscles and connective tissue, and fats aid in maintaining elasticity. The role of vitamin B-6 in the metabolism of these nutrients may help your body repair tendons and ligaments and may help prevent future injuries.
Food is the best source of ascorbic acid, which your body needs for tissue growth and wound healing, iron absorption and maintaining bones, teeth and capillaries. Vitamin C helps form collagen, a protein essential to developing skin, blood vessels, muscle, cartilage, tendons and ligaments.