RECOVERY TECHNIQUES: ARE THEY WORTH ALL THE FUSS?
Each person tends to have their ‘go to’ modality which they swear by. In this article I am going to take an in-depth look at some of the more popular recovery techniques and a few of the more left field techniques to see what really works and figure out where we should be spending our time and money.
Firstly let’s take a look at why we should be incorporating some form of post ride recovery into our daily schedule. To become a faster rider you need to expose your body to physical stresses. These may be in the form of riding, strength training or some kind of cross training but in all instances after these stresses the human body needs to recover.
The ability to recover adequately allows for another level of high performance in your next session. Without proper recovery, it will take you longer to recover and therefore longer before you can hit your next quality session.
When you exercise and train it will lead to some level of inflammation, delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) and increased perceived fatigue depending on how hard your session was.
Recovery is a diverse process that involves the healing of the microtraumas that are caused to muscles during
