#483: What Really Works for Exercise Recovery?

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.7 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In the past few years, sports recovery has become a big business. Elite athletes and weekend warriors alike are spending lots of time and money on things like cryotherapy, float tanks, foam rolling, and supplements in order to feel better, push themselves harder, and gain an edge over the competition. But does any of this stuff actually do anything? My guest today spent a year investigating the science of exercise recovery. Her name is Christie Aschwanden and she’s the author of Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn From the Strange Science of Recovery. We begin our show discussing what exactly athletic “recovery” is and why the recovery business has been booming recently. Christie and I then dig into several different recovery modalities from drinking Gatorade, to taking ice baths, to foam rolling, and the science, or the lack thereof, behind their effectiveness. We end our conversation discussing what actually works best for exercise recovery (hint: you do it every night and it’s free), whether you should spend your money on things like cryospas, and whether recovery methods can still be beneficial, even if they're largely based on the placebo effect. Get the show notes at aom.is/recovery.

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0:00.0	Music
0:15.0	Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:18.4	In the past few years sports recovries become a big business.
0:21.3	Elite athletes and weekend warriors alike are spending lots of time and money on things
0:24.7	like cryotherapy, float tanks, foam rolling and supplements in order to feel better, push
0:29.1	some souls harder and gain an edge of the competition.
0:31.7	But does any of the stuff actually do anything?
0:33.8	Well my guest day spent a year investigating the science of exercise recovery, her name
0:37.4	is Christy Ashwondon which is the author of the book Good to Go with the athlete and
0:41.0	all of us can learn from the strange science of recovery.
0:43.2	We begin our show discussing what exactly athletic recovery is and why the recovery business
0:48.0	has been booming recently.
0:49.4	Christy and I then dig into several different recovery modalities from drinking gatorade
0:53.6	to taking ice baths to foam rolling and the science or the lack thereof behind their
0:57.8	effectiveness.
0:58.8	The conversation is asking what actually works best for exercise recovery?
1:02.2	Hint and do it every night and it's free.
1:04.3	Whether you spend your money on things like cryospa's and whether recovery methods can
1:07.8	still be beneficial, even if they're largely based on the placebo effect.
1:11.2	After the show is over, check out our show notes on aam.is slash recovery.
1:15.3	Christy joins me now via clearcast.io.
1:19.1	Christy Ashwondon, welcome to the show.
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