SUPERCHARGE YOUR REST DAY!
Achieving your best is as much about what you do when you’re not training or competing as it is about those gruelling workouts. The pros have known this for a while, but now the data and technology available to top-level athletes is filtering down to the masses, allowing us to jump on the bandwagon and reap the rewards.
If you’re frustrated by how long it takes you to recover between workout sessions, it may be worth overhauling what you do in your down time, say the experts. Here’s why: ‘During an intense workout, our body is under a lot of stress, but once the workout). ‘We expect our body to be able to handle everything we throw at it, but it needs plenty of TLC to keep functioning at its best; so joints can stay mobile, so muscles don’t become too tight and so we aren’t over exercising to the point where it affects our sleep and hormones.’
