The Australian Women's Weekly

Rest, recover, repeat

Elite athletes know a thing or two about recovery. It’s one of the most important parts of their training, says former Winter Olympian snowboarder Steph Prem, a Melbourne-based Pilates coach, founder of Studio PP and one of Medibank’s Live Better At Home wellness ambassadors. “Even the most rigorous and well-planned workouts are ineffectual without recovery time,” she says. Most importantly, the step that many of us are missing from our wellness efforts is stretching.

It’s something we do innately when we wake up, or have been sitting for too long. We reach out our arms. We arch our backs. We

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