SNR #192: Shona Halson, PhD - Recovery Strategies for Elite Performance

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 16 August 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Shona Halson is the Senior Recovery Physiologist at the ‪Australian Institute of Sport and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance. Her work involves providing athletes with advice and assistance to minimise fatigue and maximise recovery, she is responsible for conducting applied research to evaluate techniques to reduce fatigue and increase recovery. Shona has worked closely with the Australian Dolphins and their specific preparation for the Rio Olympics. Shona has a wealth of experience in the area of fatigue and recovery and she spent a number of years working as the Recovery Centre Director for the Australian Olympic Committee.

In This Episode We Discuss:

Periodization of recovery
Cold water immersion and constrast water therapy for recovery
Do recovery strategies have the potential to negatively impact adaptive responses to training?
Athlete perception and "belief" in recovery modalities
The importance of hydrostatic pressure: implications for hydrotherapy practice
Effectively monitoring fatigue in athletes to assess training load and recovery

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hydrostatic pressure will have pretty profound effects on blood flow.
0:15.0	So redistribution of flow.
0:17.0	So cold and hot water will have effects on, you know, Venus return, skin blood flow, muscle
0:23.8	blood flow, so it will have strong effects.
0:30.7	And now we've got, we're fortunate enough to be in a situation where we've had a fair
0:35.0	bit of data now collected over a number of years and we can go back and we can start to mine that data.
0:39.3	So now I'm looking at things like, okay, if you've had poor sleep for this number of days,
0:44.3	you're more likely to be sick or injured. Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio.
1:08.1	As always, I am your host, Danny Lennon, and we are at episode 192.
1:15.3	And in just a few moments, I'm going to be talking to Dr. Shona Halson, who is the senior
1:21.0	recovery physiologist at the Australian Institute of Sport.
1:24.4	And has done a ton of amazing research on all sorts of areas related to recovery
1:30.3	in elite level athletes and the Olympians that Australia have been sending to the Olympics
1:35.3	and all the stuff that have been doing at their amazing facility down in Australia.
1:40.0	But before we get onto more about the episode, just two quick announcements for you that
1:44.8	will be of relevance.
1:47.1	The first thing is that tickets are now on sale for the Sigma Nutrition seminars that
1:53.4	are happening this November 2017.
1:56.8	So we'll be having the seminar in London and we'll be having one in Dublin.
2:02.1	So tickets for both of those are now on sale.
2:05.1	The full details are over at sigmautrition.com slash seminar 2017.
2:11.1	Or if you just go to the website, you will find details there.
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