Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery
3/5. Review of various exercise recovery trends and modalities – specialized hydration and nutrition, cryotherapy, compression, supplements, etc. etc. It's probably not a spoiler to say that the only thing for which we have clear effectiveness evidence is sleep. Everything else is probably a placebo, though there can be some value in that. Worth reading for the weekend warrior (I was one of those once, and hey, I went running* last night after the baby was in bed, so there).
*Well…trotting. Screw my achilles. Screw my weird and somewhat frightening post-partum joint pain.
3/5. Review of various exercise recovery trends and modalities – specialized hydration and nutrition, cryotherapy, compression, supplements, etc. etc. It's probably not a spoiler to say that the only thing for which we have clear effectiveness evidence is sleep. Everything else is probably a placebo, though there can be some value in that. Worth reading for the weekend warrior (I was one of those once, and hey, I went running* last night after the baby was in bed, so there).
*Well…trotting. Screw my achilles. Screw my weird and somewhat frightening post-partum joint pain.