Boost Your Recovery: 8 Tips to Get Faster 💪

Here's the truth about recovery: getting fitter, faster and stronger doesn't happen on the bike or during your run or in the gym. It happens after. And that's why recovery is as important as your workout.

And FYI, it's not about shuffling off to the couch... so I decided to dig into...

...what recovery is
...how to know when you need more and
...what you can do to speed it up so you can get back out there again

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00:00 When the fitness gains happen
00:36 Surprise! Your metabolism isn't slowing down
01:47 Chronic lack of recovery - what it means
04:01 Recovery 101: Your metabolic ceiling
06:38 Recovery 101: Dial up your parasympathetic nervous system
07:37 How to know if you need more recovery #1
08:58 #2 Know your sleep data
09:38 #3 Are you breathing faster?
10:30 #4 What's going on with HRV?
11:09 #5 What resting heart rate tells you
12:18 How to recover faster - #1 Tip
15:38 What & when you eat
19:53 How life stress reduces fitness
22:31 How to END your ride or run
23:30 How to do a recovery workout
24:29 Box breathing: start recovering ASAP
25:31 Heat or Cold for recovery?
26:12 How to foam roll to speed recovery
28:39 Are you REALLY overtrained???
31:40 The big takeaway + my biggest fail