Athletes sometimes wonder why their fitness has not improved as expected despite following their training plan and pushing harder than ever. The reason for sluggishness can be simple: eating the wrong foods, eating too little, or lacking rest, especially quality sleep. The fourth part of our recovery series explores these key aspects.
Following our ongoing series on recovery, this article explores the effects of hot water and contrast (hot–cold) therapies in optimizing recovery for endurance athletes. While cold treatment is often highlighted, could heat or alternating temperatures play a role in performance and muscle repair?
Do you have the habit of jumping into a lake to cool off after a sweaty run in the summer? Or you run from the sauna into a snowdrift during winter. If you answered yes to either of these, you may have unknowingly been aiding your recovery from workouts.
Do you regularly visit a masseuse? Or do you perhaps have compression socks or a foam roller, aiming to reduce the strain of training or enhance recovery post-workout? In this second article on recovery, we delve into these pressure-based recovery methods.
As everyone is already aware, in endurance sports, training must be sufficiently demanding both quantitatively and qualitatively for progressive development to occur. However, with the accumulation of high training volumes and overall stress from non-sporting activities, it is essential to be careful so that the body has enough time for rest and recovery.
Last week, Team Engcon presented its roster for the Ski Classics Pro Tour Season XVII, and one of the most notable absences was long-distance star Ida Dahl.
Athletes may sometimes wonder why their fitness has not improved as expected and why there has yet to be progress. Training has been done as planned, and the workout has been more challenging than ever before. So why not? The sluggishness can be as simple as eating the wrong foods or not enough, or a lack of rest and primarily a lack of quality sleep. The fourth part of our series of articles on recovery will familiarize you with these issues.
A series of articles on recovery has been published on ProXCskiing.com. Part 3 of the series (3a) started with cold therapy, and this sequence looks at the effectiveness of hot and contrast therapy in optimizing recovery.
Do you have the habit of jumping into a lake to cool off after a sweaty run in the summer? Or perhaps you run from the sauna into a snowdrift during winter? If you answered yes to either of these, you may have unknowingly been aiding your recovery from workouts.
Do you regularly visit a massagist? Or do you perhaps have compression socks or a foam roller, aiming to reduce the strain of training or enhance recovery post-workout? In this second article on recovery, we delve into these pressure-based recovery methods.
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