Recovery has become a verb, says science journalist Christie Aschwanden. For optimal athletic performance, it’s no longer enough to stop exercising and take a couple days of rest. Now we need to drink Gatorade, spend time in saunas, and float in tanks. But does any of that really work?
It’s complicated, says Aschwanden, a science writer for FiveThirtyEight and author of Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn From the Strange Science of Recovery. An athlete herself, Aschwanden found that as she grew older the need for recovery became more and more noticeable. And while there have been a few technical and how-to books on the topic, Aschwanden wanted to learn the science behind these ultra-hyped methods, try them out for…
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