Recovery That Actually Works

Sleep, protein, easy days. The unglamorous list that beats every gadget on the market.

Sleep, protein, easy days. Everything else is a rounding error.

Eight hours does more for Tuesday's session than any amount of stretching on Monday night. If the choice is a 05:00 alarm on five hours of sleep or a rest day, take the rest day - the session you drag yourself through half-asleep is the one that gets you hurt.

Easy days have to be genuinely easy. In this club the rule is you can hold a conversation the whole way, and if you cannot, you are running someone else's session.

The gadgets are fine. They are just not the thing. A compression boot after a week of five hours a night is a very expensive way to avoid going to bed.