On this week’s episode of UR Podcast, we’re exploring the vital role of recovery, shifting the focus from how hard we can train to how effectively we can recover from the stress we put on our bodies.
Discussions this week challenge the ‘hustle’ mentality, looking at why downtime and protected time are crucial for both physical performance and long-term well-being.
We’ll touch on the benefits of active rest for managing muscle soreness and the strategic use of de-load weeks to prioritise movement quality over intensity, down to the basics of resting between sets to allow the body adapt and maintain training loads.
External stressors also make an appearance, from professional life to parenting, impacting injury risk and why sleep remains the undisputed ingredient of all recovery tools. Whether we each get enough of it is a conversation for another week.
And while we’ll explore this topic in a later podcast this season, we’ll touch on social connection and fun, and how a simple walk or a chat with friends is often more effective than high-tech recovery gadgets.
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