Recovery Guides
Your body handles different activities differently. These guides break down what actually happens after each type of exercise and the specific nutrients that speed recovery.
Recovery After Running: What Actually Works (According to the Research)
Running is one of the most metabolically demanding activities you can do. Every foot strike generates impact forces of 2-3x your bodyweight, creating ...
Recovery After Weightlifting: What the Research Says About Rebuilding Faster
Heavy resistance training inflicts three types of stress that all need to resolve before your next session. First, mechanical muscle damage - eccentri...
Recovery After Cycling: What the Research Says About Endurance Recovery
Cycling creates a recovery challenge that is easy to underestimate. Unlike impact sports where the damage is felt immediately, the physiological stres...
Recovery After Swimming: Full-Body Recovery for Pool and Open Water Athletes
Swimming is unique among endurance sports because it creates three overlapping recovery challenges that don't exist in the same combination anywhere e...
Recovery After Hiking: Why Downhill Hurts More (and What Helps)
Hiking looks low-intensity from the outside. It rarely is. The recovery challenge in hiking comes from three compounding factors that are easy to dism...