Active Recovery, Soreness vs Pain, Wim Hoff, & More (Benchmark)
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
We’re diving into the archives this week for a conversation we had in 2019 on the topic of recovery. We explore its importance and give a bunch of strategies for optimizing it.
Expect to Learn:
- The distinction between soreness and pain
- The benefits of self-myofascial release
- How active recovery exercises can enhance recovery
- Strategies for optimizing the recovery process
- The role of recovery in maximizing performance
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence. |
| 0:04.3 | Every week here on the show, Ben and I dedicate some time to explore how we can live a life |
| 0:08.4 | of better health and increased fulfillment. |
| 0:10.8 | We answer your questions about five factors of health, dive deep on living a life of to so much for joining us this week. I'm here just a quick introduction. I haven't done this in a hot minute. We're going to do a benchmark. Benchmark is just when I go through the archives of the show, of the handful of years we've been doing this, and find an episode that is worth resurfacing and revisiting. |
| 0:36.7 | And this time around I selected an episode based entirely on a random clicking of YouTube. I was on YouTube and I got |
| 0:47.4 | curious as to see which of the episodes that we've done since 2016 has the most views and I found it and it's this episode and it's all |
| 0:56.2 | about recovery so I thought for no other reason than that we would revisit it the |
| 1:01.6 | things Ben and I talk about this from June of 2019 for those who are interested we would of the show to YouTube. So if you would like to see our faces |
| 1:15.0 | while we talk, you can certainly do that |
| 1:18.0 | to search for chasing excellence in YouTube |
| 1:20.0 | and you'll find us. |
| 1:21.0 | Here are the things we talked about in this episode from all the |
| 1:23.6 | way back in June of 2019. We talk about the distinction between soreness and pain, |
| 1:27.0 | benefits of self-miofacial release, how active recovery exercises can enhance |
| 1:32.1 | recovery strategies for optimizing the recovery |
| 1:34.7 | process and the role of recovery in maximizing performance. |
| 1:39.3 | Before we get into the episode, just a few words of thanks from our sponsors. We're brought to you this |
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