Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield. I'm the Get Fit Guy and in today's episode, we're going to take a deep dive into special things that you can do that basically allow you to recover much faster from your workouts.

Now, I was recently splayed out on my bed in a hotel room in Linwood, Washington, my entire body

throbbing and aching from having just surged across the finish line of a Spartan super obstacle race,

which was about 9.8 miles of stumbling

through Pacific Northwest rainforest while hoisting sandbags, clambering over logs and rocks,

swinging from monkey bars, hauling buckets full of weight, crawling through barbed wire,

and high stepping through mud and bogs.

And on my hotel room TV was the first movie I've watched in a long time. Logan, the icing on the cake of

the Marvel Comics Avengers Wolverine series, which of course features the single most fast-recovering

superhero on the face of the planet. And while you certainly can't expect to get punched

10 times in the face by a muscle-bound cyborg and expect your broken and smashed cheekbones and

nose to magically regenerate,

you can bounce back from many workouts, races, injuries, or surgeries far faster than modern

sports medicine and orthopedics would have you to believe. Now, I'll admit it, I used to be

pretty old school and simple when it came to recovery, a post-workout shake, maybe a little

stretching or time with the foam roller, and if things got

really bad, some ice massage or a cold bath. Not that there's anything wrong with that simplicity.

After all, it's easy to get so carried away with new gadgets, toys, and recovery tools,

that you forget to take time to enjoy a glass of wine while taking in the sunset at the end of the day.

But I remember when I shared an office with a sports medicine physician

and all day long, marathoners, triathletes, cyclists, and weekend warriors would come through the door,

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