Plan is verb, not a noun.
Planning is a never ending
task of adjustments and fine tuning.
Plan is verb, not a noun.
Planning is a never ending
task of adjustments and fine tuning.
It's been a long seven years...what about a training based recovery,finally?
Are really " recovery " and "rest" synonymous? Do "high" and "low" intensity still mean what they meant to people on this forum seven years ago?
How have we all changed over the years?
Knowledge belongs to the world. (Synapse)
For me the most interesting question today is how recovery options may actually hinder adaptation. Removing waste products by external means will obviously allow you to train again sooner, but they may also remove the incentive for the body to change.
I can't find little to point me in the right direction. In the lab there have been just a couple of studies, mainly on cold therapy. In the field, well few coaches (myself included) and athletes would be willing to cut back on recovery work and thus training volume.
What ever happened to Clemson?
It doesn't seem to be any evidence that recovery type training will make you recover faster.
Sports Med. 2006;36(9):781-96.
Using recovery modalities between training sessions in elite athletes: does it help?
Barnett A.
Ah another typical "nothing works" study.
Originally Posted by NFS
Supplementation accelerates recovery and there are plenty of studies to support this. I’m going to database search on this, I’ m sure there will be studies supporting differing recovery modalities.
You are right NFS. Just because we say it is so does not make it true.
Did you know that Charlie almost never spoke about his own athletic career? He had an intense dislike talking about his own running.
Charlie's sprinting career ended before he was 25 years old.
Charlie was motivated to coach out of the frustrations he had having never done any work that was low intensity or recovery based work. He certainly did not invent this idea but he did learn from trial and error how tempo and shaking and tripling and core body circuits and pool workouts allow people to do more, recover faster from all work and give a person general fitness that is often overlooked.
And don't forget that research has shown us that warming up isn't necessary, massage does not enhance performance or recovery, static stretching is useless, and running on a treadmill is just as effective as running on a track.
Never let a PhD design your training program.
The research on warm up was based on stretching and had a number of flaws in the methodology. The studies on static stretching showed miniscule difference between the dynamic group v static group. The size of the sample group was also small. The majority of studies support the use of a warm up.
The studies on treadmill v normal running showed that biomechanical differences were minor. However minor biomechanical differences are significant. The problem is in the interpretation of results. My view is that 1% is sufficient proof that normal running is preferred over treadmill running.
To find value in research there is a need to review every study in the field to get the overall picture. One problem I’ve encountered with journalists and track coaches is that they place too much value on one study and don’t interpret results appropriately.
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