#061 - Christie Aschwanden - The Truth About Sports Recovery

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Christie Aschwanden is a journalist and author of "GOOD TO GO: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn From the Strange Science of Recovery".

From fancy foam rollers to cryo-therapy, sleep optimisation to compression pants... Today Christie is going to take us through every recovery method you've tried yourself or seen on Instagram, and give us the bottom line regarding their effectiveness.

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0:00.0	Hello friends, I'm finally back in the UK and you will be delighted to hear that that
0:05.9	means a return to the twice a week podcast publishing schedule, so let's get into it.
0:11.4	This week I'm sitting down with Christy Ashwandan, who is the author of Good to Go, what the
0:16.8	athlete in all of us can learn from the strange science of recovery.
0:21.0	One of my favourite episodes so far was with Alex Hutchinson on the limit of human performance
0:27.5	as he explained what he discovered during research for his book In Jure.
0:32.9	And today we're going to look at everything on the opposite end of that spectrum.
0:37.4	So from fancy foam rollers to cryogenic therapy, saunas, sleep optimisation, those compression
0:46.1	things, those weird compression pant things, and every other form of recovery that you
0:50.5	can think of and you've seen athletes using on Instagram, we're going to go through them
0:55.2	today.
0:56.2	Christy has done a fantastic analysis of all of the different ways that people are trying
1:01.0	to recover and assess just what sort of impact they're having.
1:06.1	So if you are an athlete or you know one who is looking to improve their recovery then
1:10.5	today is absolutely for you.
1:12.3	Please welcome Christy Ashwandan.
1:25.2	Christy Ashwandan, how are you today?
1:33.1	I'm great, thanks for having me.
1:35.0	Thank you for coming on.
1:36.2	So what are we going to learn about today?
1:39.4	Exercise recovery, all things that have to do with exercise recovery.
1:44.5	Okay.
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