Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong and I am the Get Fit Guy.

On this episode, author Christy Ashwondon joins me to discuss whether some of the most popular recovery methods and devices

actually help us bounce back from hard workouts or if they

just add stress to our day and also to our bank account. So let's take a lighthearted, guided

tour of the wacky world of things like cryotherapy, float tanks, not so hot saunas, and even

some space age pajamas. We'll also chat about recovery and what

that means for your fitness routine. But first, Christy Ashwenden is an award-winning journalist

who has been a lead science writer at 538 and The Washington Post. Her writing has also appeared

in Outside, Discover, Smithsonian, and O.

Christy is also the co-host of a podcast called Emerging Form, which is a podcast about the creative

process. Now in the world of fitness and sport, Christy was a high school state champion in the

1600 meter run, a national cycling champion,

and an elite cross-country skier with Team Rossignoll.

She now lives and occasionally races in western Colorado.

And I recently had the opportunity to interview her all about her book, which is called

Good to Go, what the athlete in all of us

can learn from the strange science of recovery. In Good to Go, Christy looks at some of, well,

my favorite recovery tricks, methods, and devices with what I would describe as an air of

skepticism, but also true science. Now, back in the day, recovery used to be

relatively simple. We would just take a day off and rest and let our bodies get themselves

ready to perform again. But lately, recovery has become a costly source of stress. As Christy says in her book, we have, and I quote,

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