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The Nick Bare Podcast

140: All Things Recovery and Protocols I Use

The Nick Bare Podcast

Nick Bare

Health & Fitness

55.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

I break down the recovery protocols fueling my peak Ironman Arizona build—from sleep and nutrition to sauna, cold plunge, and red-light therapy. I share lessons, stress-balance tactics, and family moments that keep me grounded. Whether you’re training hard or seeking better daily recovery, this episode delivers practical tools to optimize performance and prevent injury.


Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Overview

04:44 Training and Recovery Challenges

08:53 Understanding Stress and Recovery

21:41 Balancing the Nervous System

28:41 Tracking Recovery Metrics

32:23 Prioritizing Sleep for Optimal Recovery

40:32 The Game-Changing Sleep Tool

46:42 The Role of Nutrition in Recovery

54:16 Sauna and Cold Plunge Benefits

01:03:48 Exploring Red Light Therapy

01:12:28 Compression Boots and Massage Guns

01:15:19 The Importance of Physical Therapy


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of the podcast.

0:09.8

Today I am talking all things recovery.

0:15.5

And to be honest, I get questions all the time.

0:20.9

I've been getting questions for years all about what I do for recovery.

0:25.4

And when I was younger, I didn't do much for recovery.

0:29.0

I slept, I ate, I trained, and I recovered well.

0:34.1

Now as I'm getting older, I'm 35 years old now, still young, but I'm getting older,

0:41.3

I find that I don't recover as efficiently as I used to. So I have to incorporate more devices,

0:52.2

protocols, just different things that I want to share with you guys today,

0:57.8

all of what I incorporate into my daily or weekly routine to optimize my recovery,

1:05.9

especially in a high volume prep right now, such as my Ironman prep.

1:11.5

We are about eight weeks out from Ironman, Arizona, which is November 16th, full Ironman,

1:19.0

so I'm deep into training right now.

1:21.8

And I'll share what my recovery routine and protocols are throughout this, this episode.

1:29.3

But a few notes to share prior jumping in.

1:34.0

Story time.

1:35.8

Moral of the story is that I have written down right here,

1:38.9

recovery and injury prevention aren't just for athletic performance related activities.

1:44.3

It is for life.

1:46.7

So this past weekend, me and the family, myself, Steph, Charlie, Nico, we went into Austin to a coffee shop.

1:56.5

It was called Mozart's Coffee.

1:58.3

So it's a great coffee shop over off of Enfield, downtown Alfton,

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