What’s up everyone.
Today I’m gonna talk about optimising our recovery from hard, overloading training.
This is such a critical component of getting bigger, stronger, leaner and just generally more jacked.
If you ignore this, your efforts in the gym are for absolutely nothing.
So what is recovery?
Any sort of hard training is gonna disrupt homeostasis in the body in order for it to adapt and get stronger, which is exactly what we want.
Let’s define recovery as this:
The return of physiological systems to baseline, which results in a restoration of athletic performance to predisruption levels, or at least to levels sufficient for further overload training.
So let’s get into the different types of recovery modalities and how you can recover and set yourself up to train harder.
Training within your Maximum recoverable volume (MRV)
People like to say there’s no such thing as overtraining just under recovering.
I call massive amounts of bullshit with that statement.
Your body has a threshold for the amount of work it can handle per week (microcycle) in the gym.
Doesn't matter how good your sleep or nutrition is, if you’re chronically using too much work with your training, you’re shooting yourself in the foot.
Find a threshold of work that you can still make progress with and recover.
That’s the golden ticket.
Have a look at the image below for an example.
https://propanefitness.com/maximum-recoverable-volume/
Passive recovery (Sleep, relaxation, stress management)
Passive recovery methods are vital in recovering from training. No amounts of supplements or ice cold therapy will result in more benefits from these strategies.