How do you Recover?

1. Sleep

   Sleep rules our recovery.

   • improves our mood and our ability to manage our emotions;

   • Helps us make better decisions

   • helps us learn and remember

   • improves cognition, concentration, and attention

   • keeps our brains healthy

   • helps us build and repair tissues. This is helpful after exercise and to recovery from injuries.

   • regulates our blood sugar and lipids;

   • affects our hormones

   • regulates our hunger, appetite, and satiety

   • helps clean up and get rid of our body’s waste products

2. Eat

   Food Fuels our recovery.

   • improves energy levels

   • Supports development and maintainance of muscle mass

   • Helps produce energy

   • Helps maintain bone mass

   • Supports the management of inflammation

   • helps develop a strong immune system

   • Improves performance

3. Move

   Movement CAN be a destressor and support recovery. (It doesn’t always)

   • Low intensity movement can help shift our body towards a more rest and digest state

   • Movement supports blood flow and oxygen delivery

   • Blood circulation helps deliver nutrients and remove waste products

   • Movement can promote other recovery factors like sleep and eating

What Probably isn’t doing much
(if anything)
for your recovery

• Fasting or fad diets

• Ice Baths

• AG1 or other expensive supplements

• that 5km run or 60min WOD for “Active Recovery”

• Whatever thing that you read on the cover of a magazine at the grocery store

Stick to the basics

Sleep

Eat

Move