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Chasing Excellence

#076: 14 Ways to Recover Better

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

Health, Education, Mindset, Crossfit, Wellness, Self-improvement, Holistic Health, Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We're talking about a bunch of ways to recover from our workouts better, from simple foam rolling to electric stimulation and float tanks.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Is there an easy way to know when you wake up,

0:04.0

like, ooh, this is an active recovery day or I'm sore,

0:06.7

but I can work out again.

0:08.0

So, soreness is a good thing.

0:09.2

We want soreness is okay.

0:12.0

The funny one is people wake up

0:13.2

and their back is sore.

0:14.3

Like after, your back being sore, it's a good thing.

0:17.2

That means you're growing the muscles.

0:18.2

Now there's a difference between soreness and pain.

0:20.3

So if you are taking steps and you feel like

0:22.4

pain shooting through your knee,

0:24.1

that's different than soreness.

0:26.0

Soreness is your muscles.

0:27.8

You're like, ooh, those things worked.

0:29.7

And if you can kind of like grab the muscle

0:31.8

and kind of move it and it kind of actually feels kind of good,

0:36.2

that means that it's probably on the track of like,

0:39.0

that's the right amount of stimulus the day before.

0:41.4

If you go to like, grab your quads and you're like,

0:44.1

ah, like, oh, and it hurts.

0:47.6

That's the indicator like you went too far.

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