Post Exercise Recovery

Increased focus on post heavy training or competition recovery.

If recovery enhanced:
- better recovery if participating in tournaments
- allow getting back to more effective training
- may decrease the potential for injury

This study showed better recovery with warmth than heat:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28980321/

Enhancing recover:
Warm down (active recovery):
- lack of clear evidence; evidence is conflicting as to the usefulness

Cold water immersion

Massage:
- popular

Compression Garments

Nutrition:
- restoring glycogen levels
- replacing fluids and electrolytes lost
- protein replacement